Internship

Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital in Wellington offers a 53 week in-hospital internship with a focus on surgery, medicine, lameness, theriogenology, emergency medicine and anesthesia services. Primary responsibilities will include care of hospital patients, emergency duty, assisting with surgery, anesthesia, medicine procedures, imaging, and lameness exams. The responsibilities of the interns vary between the services and the amount of seasonal work. During the busy season, the work day is routinely 12-13 hours long plus emergencies, but off-season work days can be much shorter. Each day those interns with in-hospital patients, assess and are responsible for basic care, perform minor treatments andbandage changes before morning rounds. After rounds, more extensive examinations and procedures are done with the clinician e.g., lameness, endoscopic, ultrasound and radiographic exams, etc. The interns’ time will be split between cases and appointments at the hospital and farm calls. Emergency duty is a significant part of the internship experience. Our internship allows for a great deal of mentorship and hands on experience. Outgoing interns and incoming interns are staggered to provide overlap and experience as the incoming class gets settled and trained. There are four internship positions available to qualified applicants, with the goal of providing a strong foundation for application to a residency program or entering private practice. The hospital staff at Rood & Riddle Wellington includes two board-certified surgeons, one board-certified theriogenologist, one board-certified internist, one doctor boarded in internal medicine, pathology as well as critical care and one internal medicine resident. Dr.’s Steve Reed (internal medicine) and Brad Tanner (dentistry) from our Lexington practice, as well as Dr. Raul Bras (podiatrist) from NC State, come to Wellington on a regular basis during the winter months to also see patients. Interns will provide assistant surgeon, anesthesia, and technical support for after-hours emergencies. All treatments, including after-hours and holidays, are performed by technicians. The imaging modalities in our hospital include: computed tomography (CT), equine positron emission tomography (PET) scan, nuclear scintigraphy, an overhead X-ray machine, digital radiographs, ultrasound as well as standing and over the ground endoscopy. Other specialty therapies include regenerative medicine and shockwave.