Our internship is intended to provide mentorship from our veterinarians during in-clinic, ambulatory appointments, emergencies and surgical cases. Intern will have valuable hands-on experience from day one. Duties include workup and management of cases, assisting in surgeries, care of hospitalized patients, and record keeping. 

Primary emergency on-call is split between current senior veterinarians.  The intern will begin a normal emergency duty, split between interns, upon arrival. This entails serving as backup to primary veterinarian. This includes assisting and overseeing in-clinic cases. Intern primary emergency on-call will be considered as intern progresses. Veterinary truck is supplied for ambulatory or emergency work.

The intern will have 2 weekends a month off unless attending their hospitalized cases. We offer 10 days paid leave, full medical health insurance, liability insurance, local CE time of 2 days and stipend of $500, fees paid for state license, AAEP, AzVMA, AVMA. 

We would like every finishing intern to be an accomplished, well-rounded, and experienced general equine veterinarian. Our program is set up to make this happen. Our interns gain valuable experience helping to manage both referral surgical and medicine cases. Our internship is a valuable gateway to a residency if the intern wishes to pursue advanced training. Our partners maintain relationships with specialists at most university teaching hospitals and we actively advocate for our interns that want to pursue advanced training. For those interns that wish to enter a general practice after our internship, we aim to equip them with the needed skills to be exceptional equine veterinarians. Due to the diversity of our caseload and the responsibility with which we entrust our interns during the year, we estimate that a year at our practice is equivalent to 5-6 years’ experience gained on one’s own.