Internship Established: 2001

Number of Internships Available: We take 4 interns

Application will be accepted up to: December 1, 2022

Estimated Workload: Our interns spend their time on 4 different rotations: hospital-medicine, hospital-surgery, out-patient, and overnight emergency/barn management.

Emergency Duties (Nights / Week): 2-3

Emergency Duties (Weekends / Month): 2-3

Terms of Employment: 1 year – June 1st to June 1st

Internship Salary:  $60,000 (housing is provided and utilities paid. Brings total salary + benefits to approximately $75,000)

Philosophy of Internship: We feel that an internship should provide a new veterinarian with opportunities to increase their skill level and gain the comfort and knowledge that make an equine veterinarian or potential resident successful.

Internship Duties: Position will not be limited to running anesthesia and taking radiographs, but will allow hands on experience in primary care of routine as well as emergency cases.

Prerequisite Application Process: Prerequisites: Passed National Board Exam and the Texas State Board Exam.

Application Process: Please send a CV, letter of intent, and 3 reference letters to weatherfordequine@gmail.com.

Additional Information: Case Load: Surgery- approximately 75 colic surgeries performed annually, arthroscopy, other orthopedic (including pastern arthrodesis, long bone fixation), and soft tissue surgeries. Reproduction- we maintain a large recipient herd that the interns are able to monitor and use to develop skills in reproductive ultrasonography, a large number of embryo transfers are performed at our breeding center and at local farms. Our reproductive team services the finest cutting horse stallions in the world (including High Brow Cat) and the top breeding farms in the area. Medicine- neonatal intensive care and broodmare illness comprise the majority of the spring’s work. The balance of the year is filled with a mixture of adult and juvenile respiratory, GI and neurology related disease or performance issues and a small percentage of oncology, ophthalmology, dermatology, cardiology and endocrinology. Lameness- our hospital serves as a hub for performance and lameness evaluations. A very large percentage of our caseload throughout the year is related to lameness work.

Internship Coordinator: Heath Qualls, DVM, MS, DACVIM

Internship Coordinator Email: weatherfordequine@gmail.com

Benefits

Housing : Yes
Vacation: Yes
Licensing: Yes
Professional Dues: Yes

About Weatherford Equine Medical Center, PC

Weatherford Equine Medical Center is a 9 veterinarian equine practice located just thirty miles west of Fort Worth. We have a 16,000 square foot hospital, that includes; 15 in-patient stalls, 9 mare and foal intensive care stalls, 5 isolation stalls, a surgery suite with two induction/recovery stalls, a special procedures room for standing surgery, endoscopy, etc., four separate exam areas with stocks, and a complete in-house lab which is also a federally accredited coggins lab. Also included are five one acre turnouts, one six acre pasture, and a ten acre pasture for long term boarders. We also have a 7,500 square foot indoor lameness facility with 15 additional stalls. We have become established as a regional leader in equine veterinary care. Board certified specialists in both surgery and internal medicine allow us to perform the highest level of veterinary care to our patients. Drs. Foland, Willis, Plunkett, and Qualls accept referral cases from around North, Central and West Texas. With a state of the art facility and a trained nursing staff, we are able to care for almost any equine condition. Our specialists carefully communicate and work in coordination with ref...erring veterinarians to provide a seamless level of care for all horses treated at the center that are not normal clients. Our practice also includes veterinarians with specific interests in lameness, podiatry, reproduction and dentistry, thereby offering a complete range of services to our local clients. We offer both hospital based and farm based appointments.

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