The Department of Clinical Sciences and the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Colorado State University offer a 6 – ~12-month Equine Specialty Internship with an emphasis on Equine Medicine and Neurology at the James L. Voss Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

The internship is designed to provide clinical experience in many aspects of equine practice through the Equine Medicine service as well as an opportunity for research experience through ongoing projects pertaining to equine neurology. Elective rotations through equine emergency and critical care, equine surgery, equine ambulatory, anesthesia, radiology, and livestock medicine can be arranged depending on the intern’s interest. The successful candidate will assist the existing faculty with clinical duty throughout the internship period and will be expected to participate in the clinical teaching of veterinary students. After hours emergency duty will be expected and will be shared with the existing equine medicine and surgery house officers. Primary case responsibility will be expected once the intern and faculty are comfortable. The equine hospital sees a wide variety of different types of cases with approximately 2200-2500 horses seen yearly in the hospital.  

TRAINING

• Program Dates: July 15, 2022 – Dec 31, 2022 with the possibility of extension (includes 1-week orientation period). The week distribution is provided here for a 1-year program.
• Clinical Rotations: up to 38 weeks. The schedule is variable according to the interest of the intern. The approximate distribution of time spent in the various disciplines is as follows:
• Research: up to 12 weeks.

CLINICAL SERVICE / WEEKS

• Equine Medicine Service - 30
• Elective rotations (Equine Surgery, Equine Critical Care, Equine Sports Med, Equine Ambulatory, Livestock, Anesthesia, Radiology) - 8
• Vacation - 2

In accordance with college policy, residents and interns are not permitted to practice veterinary medicine in private/specialty veterinary practices in Colorado during the course of their program.

CSU is an EO/EA/AA employer and conducts background checks on all final candidates.

PREREQUISITES

• Graduate of an approved veterinary college.
• Completion of an application form, curriculum vitae, college transcript (only graduate school needed) and three letters of recommendation.
• Approval of the applicant’s credentials by the Hospital Internship Committee (including NAVLE or TOEFL and ECFVG/PAVE results).
• Compliance with Colorado State University rules of employment. The successful candidate must be eligible to work in the United States by the expected start date.  Note:  The department does not sponsor H1-B or E-3 visas at this time.
• Interns are required to become accredited in the State of Colorado.
• The successful candidate will require licensure as stated below:
• An assignment as a veterinary intern with the Department of Clinical Sciences will require you to serve in the capacity of a veterinarian. In 2007, the State of Colorado amended the “Colorado Veterinary Practice Act” (12-64-103(9)) to require: “A veterinarian who is employed at a school of Veterinary Medicine in Colorado and who practices veterinary medicine in the course of his or her employment responsibilities shall either make written application to the board for an academic license in accordance with this section or shall otherwise become licensed pursuant to Sections 12-64-107 and 12-64-108.” The Office of the Dean will pay for the initial application, and individuals will be responsible for renewing their academic licenses every two (even) years. More information on this process is available at the following link: http://www.dora.state.co.us/veterinarians/academic.html

* Case management (including patient care and medical records) under the supervision of faculty on the assigned rotations.

* Participation in clinical rounds and training of veterinary students.

* Participation in equine in-house emergency duty:  primary duty MWFSatSun (9-11wks), TuTh (9-12wks); secondary on-call duty M-Sun (9-11wks).

* Course Work: No formal course work is required but interns are welcome to participate in resident graduate courses and seminars.

* Research project: No formal requirement but intern interest can be explored for a review article, case report, or research project with a faculty member.

* Journal Club: Intern will participate in weekly journal club with equine medicine or sports medicine faculty and residents.

* Seminar presentation: Intern will be encouraged to present client continuing education seminars or veterinary CE if they choose to attend a meeting.

* Wet laboratory instruction: Intern will assist the equine clinical faculty in teaching of second and third year veterinary student laboratories.