Employment Information
Practice name
The Ohio State University Galbreath Equine Hospital
Last Updated
August 2, 2024
Internship Type
Combined
% of time spent on ambulatory vs in-hospital
0% unless the intern chooses. The food animal hospital allows for equine interns to rotate on to their service which is a combined food animal medicine and surgery section.
Philosophy of Internship: To provide mentorship in an educational environment, and to gain experience and knowledge necessary to be successful in a residency position or in a progressive equine private practice. All interns will receive direct and indirect supervision based upon their experience and specialties. Our interns are here to be trained to become highly skilled equine veterinarians; this is our number one responsibility and guiding philosophy for the internship. Our interns go on to surgery and medicine residency or enter high-end private practices with multiple competitive job offers.
Case Load: The equine hospital has one the larger academic medicine centers caseload in the United States. Equine ambulatory saw around 2,000 cases last year which included preventive health care and sports medicine and lameness. The Equine Medicine department saw 1,300 cases last year. Equine Soft tissue and orthopedic surgery saw a combined 1,200 cases last year.
Internship Duties: Primary case care under the direct supervision of senior clinical faculty and residents. The intern will rotate on equine internal medicine, equine emergency and critical care, equine orthopedic surgery, and equine soft tissue surgery. It is the philosophy of faculty at Ohio State is that interns be given primary care responsibilities. The intern rotating in the hospital will be assigned emergency duty depending on the level of their level of performance.
The intern will receive hands-on training and experience in equine field surgeries, portable digital radiography & ultrasound, endoscopy (both 1 & 3 meter), power float, and lameness locator. The intern will also be practicing joint injections, CFS taps, and nerve blocks on day one. Practicing these skills and other advanced skills under supervision for an entire year has allowed our intern graduates to become very successful equine practitioners. The ambulatory emergency duty will be directly supervised for the first 3-4 months of the internship by senior faculty until the intern is confident and capable of handling primary calls with the senior faculty member as backup.
The interns are welcome and encouraged to participate in the medicine/ECC/ambulatory and surgery journal club. Interns could be asked to assist faculty in the teaching of second and third-year veterinary student laboratories. Interns are strongly recommended to audit the resident medicine and surgery resident graduate courses and seminars. The intent of these courses is to prepare residents for specialty board exams, e.g. internal medicine, surgery, dentistry, and theriogenology, an overarching purpose is to provide a comprehensive framework on how to successfully critique cutting-edge published literature for any high-level equine practitioner regardless of specialty interest.
Health and Wellness Support
The internship program fosters and promotes an environment that supports the professional, physical, psychological, and social well-being of interns. Basic and essential components include safe and clean workspaces and access to mental health and crisis support.
Examples of activities supporting health and wellness include:
It is our philosophy that the interns have two weekends a month of no on-call or hospital responsibility (two full weekends off a month)
Organized events that support the overall wellbeing of interns. “Intern Nights”, are scheduled by the EFS faculty monthly, in which all interns are dismissed from service to allow for social functions together.
Ready and confidential access to mental health professionals.
Physical and mental health resources are available throughout the year.
Scholarly Activity: Is supported if the intern expresses interest in participation. These projects could be benchtop, retrospective studies, clinical hypothesis-driven, or case reports.
Evaluations: We believe it is very important to give formal feedback along with in-the-moment feedback. Reviews will be given at 1, 4, 8, and 12 months. We use a competence-based tool to assess growth both in clinical skills and clinical reasoning.
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- Equine general practice
- Racetrack practice
- Sports medicine practice
- Equine/LA surgical residency
- Equine/LA medicine residency
- Equine/LA critical care residency/fellowship
- Ophthalmology residency
- Imaging residency
- Anesthesia residency
Start date
June 16, 2025
End date
June 30, 2026
Application Deadline
October 1, 2024
Does the practice offer externships?
Yes, please email the practice contact for details
Is an in person visit or externship with the practice required to be considered for an internship?
No
Contact Information
Columbus
[USA] Ohio
Franklin
43210
601 Vernon L Tharp Street
Practice Mailing Address
601 Vernon L Tharp Street - Columbus - Franklin - [USA] Ohio - 43210
Clinical Experience and Responsibilities
Yes
Service rotation description
The intern will rotate on equine internal medicine, equine emergency and critical care, equine orthopedic surgery, equine sports medicine and equine ambulatory and equine soft tissue surgery. It is the philosophy of faculty at Ohio State is that interns be given primary care responsibilities based upon their level of performance and achievement. The intern rotating in the hospital will be assigned emergency duty depending on the level of their level of performance.
The intern will receive hands-on training and experience in equine field surgeries, portable digital radiography & ultrasound, endoscopy (both 1 & 3 meter), power floating, and the lameness locator. The intern will also be preforming joint injections, CFS taps, and nerve blocks on day one. Practicing these skills and other advanced skills under supervision for the entire year has allowed our intern graduates to become very successful equine practitioners. The ambulatory emergency duty will be directly supervised for the first 3-4 months of the internship by senior faculty until the intern is confident and capable of handling primary calls with the senior faculty member as backup.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
90-99%
Patient rounds held daily with senior clinicians
Yes
Teaching rounds held
Yes
Frequency of teaching rounds
Daily
Weekly journal clubs held
Yes
M&M or other specialized rounds held
Yes
Intern has opportunity to attend a professional CE meeting
Yes
Intern has opportunity to complete a study or publication
Yes
Intern has access to current medical textbooks
Yes
Intern has access to online journals
Yes
In the past 5 years, how many studies/cases have been published by interns as the primary author from work pursued primarily during their intern year?
2
Equipment the intern has exposure to within the practice
- Arthroscopy
- Laparoscopy
- Fracture repair sets
- Gastroscopy
- Endoscopy
- Dynamic airway endoscopy
- Stat CBC analyzer
- Stat whole blood chemistry analyzer
- Blood gas analysis
- On site diagnostic lab
- MRI
- CT
- Digital radiography
- Ultrasound linear probe
- Ultrasound macroconvex probe
- Ultrasound microconvex probe
- Ultrasound endorectal probe
- Nuclear scintigraphy
- ECG
- Exercise ECG
- ETCO2 monitoring
- Shockwave
- Stall side orthobiologics
- Stem cell capability/utilization
- Advanced podiatry/therapeutic farriery
- Power dentistry
Any additional information the practice would like to share on their internship program:
During the orientation portion of the internship, interns participate in three to four days of intensive clinical practice training. The interns are supervised by senior clinicians and are practicing on teaching horses to allow the interns a positive learning environment without interruption of owners or students.
The skill list includes placement of intravenous catheters, nasogastric tube placement, eye exams including nerve blocks, limb bandaging, and intra-articular joint injections of the tarsus, carpus, and distal interphalangeal joint. The joint injections are confirmed with digital radiographs to help the intern visualize the anatomy of the limb needle placement. They also practice abdominal and thoracic ultrasound, as well as abdominocentesis using both a bitch catheter and a trocar. They also practice radiographic techniques of the equine limb.
Additionally, they will practice dental exams and odontoplasty with power floats. They will also practice rectal palpation. On the last day, they will practice palpation with laparoscopy to visualize what they have been palpating all week.
Interns practice how to use a hoof knife and remove shoes and can spend some additional time with a CFJ farrier to gain further education on basic farrier.
We host a yearly continuing education meeting every January for area equine practitioners, which is free of charge. The interns also assist in some student equine labs to gain more hands-on experience with castration and cast placement.
Caseload
Total number annual cases
3612
Total number ambulatory cases
1940
Total number in-house cases
1672
Avg number of after hour emergencies per week in the busiest time of year
Less than 5
Avg number of after hour emergencies per week in the least busy time of year
Less than 5
Significant seasonality to the caseload
Yes
Seasonality description
Ohio has four seasons and so does our equine practice both in the field in hospital.
In the field we are very busy in the springtime with preventive health care and sports medicine. We do not have a heavy reproductive case load in the field, but our clients do have foals born on their farm from mares bred at different locations or within the equine hospital. The fall ramps up sports medicine case load getting ready for end of year points and Quarter Horse Congress and along with preventive health care.
In the hospital the medicine team is busiest in the spring with foaling season. We have a high number of foals seen within our equine hospital. The summer is busy with fevers of unknown origin, diarrhea, and tick born disease. The winter is slower for the medicine team.
The sports medicine case load slows in the winter as the English performance horses head south for the winter.
The surgery service is always busy with colic surgery, castrations, tie backs and mass removals but we do have some seasonality with arthroscopy of standardbred yearlings preparing for the sale season.
Species other than equids
Yes
Percentages of non-equids by species
0% unless the intern chooses. The food animal hospital allows for equine interns to rotate on to their service which is a combined food animal medicine and surgery section.
Number of specialty certified clinicians
Number of clinicians in direct support of program
22
Diplomats of the following specialties (including their European Equivalents)
ACT – American College of Theriogenologists - 2
ACVA – American College of Veterinary Anesthesiologists - 4
ACVECC – American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care - 4
ACVIM – American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine - 5
ACVO – American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists - 2
ACVR – American College of Veterinary Radiology - 4
ACVS – American College of Veterinary Surgery - 6
ACVSMR- American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation - 1
Other personnel of note (outside specialists, farriers, dentists, etc)
We have a board eligible equine veterinary dentist work with surgery service twice a month to see cases inhouse. The CJF farrier is on site two days per week.
Additional certifications/area of expertise represented in the practice
Acupuncture certification, Chiropractic certification, Certified journeyman farrier (CJF)
Technician present on ambulatory calls
Yes
Overnight technical staff (if hospital present)
Yes
Other details about technician support of intern doctors
Number of Veterinary Technicians Assigned to the Surgery Service per Shift: 5 plus 2 veterinary assistants per shift Number of Veterinary Technicians Assigned to the Medicine Service per Shift: 2 plus 2 veterinary assistants per shift Number of Veterinary Technicians Assigned to the Emergency Service per Shift: 2 plus 2 veterinary assistants per shift Number of Veterinary Technicians Assigned to the Intensive Care Unit per Shift: 3 plus 2 veterinary assistants per shift Number of Veterinary Technicians Assigned to the Emergency Service per Shift: 2 plus 2 veterinary assistants per shift Number of Veterinary Assistants Assigned to the Equine Field Service Unit: 1 We also utilize 4th year veterinary students to assist the interns at night for emergency when on Equine Field service
Compensation
Annual Salary
$41-45k
Total benefits package
Download the Benefits Worksheet
Additional opportunity for emergency compensation
Yes
The intern will be paid $50 for every evening and weekend emergency when they are on call for Ambulatory. In house emergency’s are covered by the Equine Emergency and Critical Care service you would be only scheduled to work in the evenings on this rotation so you will not be receive an additional compensation.
Opportunities for additional income (production bonuses, working horse shows, etc).
No
Benefits
Benefits offered
Yes
Click here to download the Benefits Worksheet
Value of total annual compensation
70,814
Housing offered
No
Housing Type
Other
Housing Amount
$
Paid time off (PTO) offered
Yes
# of PTO days
10
PTO stipulations
None
Health insurance offered
Yes for employee plus dependents
Amount of health insurance premium intern is responsible for
https://hr.osu.edu/benefits/rates use interactive tool box. Select (Faculty and staff) FTE 75-100% Employee Type (regular, term or seasonal) Pay Frequency (Monthly)
Dental insurance offered
Yes
Life insurance offered
Yes
Short-term disability insurance offered
Yes
Long-term disability insurance offered
Yes
Liability insurance offered
Yes
CE stipend offered
Yes
License/DEA fees reimbursed / stipend offered
No
State license required
Yes
USDA license required
Yes
DEA license required
No
Association fees reimbursed / stipend offered
No
Student loan payments reimbursed / stipend offered
No
401K program offered
Yes
Employer matching offered
Yes
Contribution are mandated. Employee 14% Employer 14% You can choose multiple options for retirement.
Clothing / logo wear stipend offered
Yes
Phone or phone stipend offered
Yes
Maternity / paternity leave offered
Yes
Discounted pet care and / or a pet medications policy offered
Yes
Practice vehicle or mileage reimbursement offered
Yes
Other benefits offered
You will be eligible for $125 per quarter for additional wellness expense (lifestyle spending account: massage therapy, running shoes, emergency car repair and other eligible expensives )
The CE stipend will be $1,500
This job will qualify for 1 year of public student loan forgiveness.
Contract
Non-compete clause required
No
Non-US residents may apply
No
Method internship offers are made
Phone
Earliest date of internship offer made in the last 3 years
October 1st
Latest date of internship offer made in the last 3 years
Oct 5th
Average time provided to internship candidates to consider an offer
One week
Outcomes Assessment
How long has the practice offered internships?
50+ years
Avg number of interns who completed the program per year for the past 5 years
2
Number of interns from this program who applied for a residency in the past 5 years
5
Number of interns from this program who entered a residency position directly out of the internship in the past 5 years
3
Number of interns from this program who accepted a second or specialty internship in the past 5 years
2
Number of interns from this program who accepted a residency position in the past 5 years
4
Number of interns retained by the practice as associates in the past 5 years
Of the interns that started the program in the past 5 years, how many are still in equine practice (and/or in an advanced training program targeted at specialty equine practice)?
70-99%
Number of former interns currently employed by the practice
1
Are current or former interns from the practice available for reference?
Yes, email the practice contact for details.
Additional information about the internship program
This internship is designed to provide the intern with a well rounded experience. The second half of year we allow the intern to design their preferred learning outcomes. https://modernequinevet.com/july-2024-reducing-burnout-might-increase-retention-among-equine-veterinary-interns/
