Employment Information
Practice name
Blue Ridge Equine Clinic
Last Updated
April 16, 2025
Internship Type
Combined
Blue Ridge Equine offers a comprehensive and somewhat unique internship for recently graduated veterinarians interested in Equine medicine. The internship is broken down into in hospital and ambulatory services, which are rotated between the two interns each week.
In hospital, the intern is responsible for all in patients, will scrub in to assist with all elective and emergency surgical procedures, and assist the surgeons with any at office cases that may come in. BREC is a 24 hour care facility, we have two surgeons (one double boarded in surgery and sports medicine), two almost three licensed veterinary technicians and two hospital assistants.
On ambulatory service, the intern will get priority of which ambulatory doctor they want to ride with for the day. They will assist with all farm calls. We have four ambulatory doctors that cover a wide range of services including: general wellness, lameness and sports medicine, nutrition, and reproduction. The ambulatory doctors also share on call for after hours emergencies.
On call for interns is as follows:
-Hospital week: intern is on call Monday night to the following Monday morning before swapping to ambulatory; a primary surgeon, LVT and assistant will also be on call but may change depending on the day.
-Ambulatory: intern is on call Tuesday and Thursday night and one weekend a month (inclusive of Friday)
BREC has had a running internship program for almost two decades and is very dedicated to mentorship of new veterinarians!
2
- Equine general practice
- Sports medicine practice
- Equine/LA surgical residency
Start date
June 8, 2026
End date
June 7, 2027
Application Deadline
October 17, 2025
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, but recommended
Contact Information
Earlysville
[USA] Virginia
Albermarle
22936
4510 Mockernut Lane
Practice Mailing Address
4510 Mockernut Lane - Earlysville - Albermarle - [USA] Virginia - 22936
Clinical Experience and Responsibilities
Yes
Service rotation description
Each intern is assigned to either in hospital or ambulatory service each week, will switch the following Monday at 8am. Hospital is comprised on in patient care, elective and emergency surgery and other intensive medical management cases. Ambulatory is field calls with an ambulatory doctor, we have four doctors that cover a wide variety of cases.
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
75-90%
Patient rounds held daily with senior clinicians
Yes
Teaching rounds held
Yes
Frequency of teaching rounds
About once a month, depending on caseload
Weekly journal clubs held
Yes
M&M or other specialized rounds held
No
Intern has opportunity to attend a professional CE meeting
Yes
Intern has opportunity to complete a study or publication
No
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?
Equipment the intern has exposure to within the practice
- Arthroscopy
- Fracture repair sets
- Gastroscopy
- Endoscopy
- Stat CBC analyzer
- Stat whole blood chemistry analyzer
- Blood gas analysis
- MRI
- Digital radiography
- Ultrasound linear probe
- Ultrasound macroconvex probe
- Ultrasound microconvex probe
- Ultrasound endorectal probe
- Nuclear scintigraphy
- 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:
In the field and in hospital castrations, intern will scrub in and do half of surgery under direct supervision of surgeon/doctor. We have the gambit of sports medicine joint injection equipment including Alpha2EQ, Pro-Stride, PRP and steroid. We have done Renovo and other stem cell injections per preference of the client. We work the steeplechase race at Foxfield twice a year. We are heavily involved with the vet care of the UVA polo horses. We do a good amount of reproduction work in the Spring.
Caseload
Total number annual cases
2000
Total number ambulatory cases
1600
Total number in-house cases
400
Avg number of after hour emergencies per week in the busiest time of year
5-10
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
Our spring/summer time is the busiest in terms of ambulatory wellness and ERs. Our hospital cases do slow in the winter but will still have a good amount of elective and ER cases that come in.
Species other than equids
No
Number of specialty certified clinicians
Number of clinicians in direct support of program
6
Diplomats of the following specialties (including their European Equivalents)
ACVS – American College of Veterinary Surgery - 1
ACVSMR- American College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation - 2
Other personnel of note (outside specialists, farriers, dentists, etc)
Close relationship with many farriers in the area
Additional certifications/area of expertise represented in the practice
Acupuncture certification, Chiropractic certification
Technician present on ambulatory calls
Yes
Overnight technical staff (if hospital present)
Yes
Other details about technician support of intern doctors
We have a hospital assistant that will work from 6pm-2am Monday-Friday. Over the weekend the intern splits treatments with the LVT and assistant on call. For ambulatory, each ambulatory doctor will have an assistant that rides with them (majority of the year) in addition to the intern. Once the intern is seeing ambulatory ERs after hours on their own, they do not have a tech with them but have a back up doctor assigned each day that they can contact for assistance.
Compensation
Annual Salary
$41-45k
Additional opportunity for emergency compensation
Yes
Once an intern is seeing ambulatory ERs on their own, they get 100% of the ER fee.
Any hospital after hours ER the intern gets a smaller ER fee.
Opportunities for additional income (production bonuses, working horse shows, etc).
Yes
We work a few horse shows a year including Foxfield Races, Virginia Horse Trials and some polo events. An intern can be part of the vet team working and will get compensated.
Benefits
Benefits offered
Yes
Value of total annual compensation
69000
Housing offered
Yes
Housing Type
On-site
Paid time off (PTO) offered
Yes
# of PTO days
5
PTO stipulations
Must have an intern on hospital for on call
Health insurance offered
Yes for employee plus dependents
Amount of health insurance premium intern is responsible for
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
No
License/DEA fees reimbursed / stipend offered
Yes
State license required
Yes
USDA license required
Yes
DEA license required
No
Association fees reimbursed / stipend offered
Yes
Student loan payments reimbursed / stipend offered
No
401K program offered
Yes
Employer matching offered
Yes
3% match
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
$1000 bonus given at end of internship year
Contract
Non-compete clause required
Yes
Non-compete details
30 mile radius for 1 year following internship year
Non-US residents may apply
No
Method internship offers are made
Via email or phone call
Earliest date of internship offer made in the last 3 years
September
Latest date of internship offer made in the last 3 years
November
Average time provided to internship candidates to consider an offer
2 weeks
Outcomes Assessment
How long has the practice offered internships?
20+ 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
1
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
2
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)?
50-70%
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.
