Internship

So, you want to be a horse doctor? We can’t blame you, it’s a great job. It’s hard work, but most jobs are (at least according to the people doing them) If you’ve made it into and through veterinary school, you’re plenty smart and hard working enough to do this job.

The real question is, where can you take all that education you’ve acquired and get the experience you need to practice veterinary medicine? We may be biased, but we recommend Austin Equine as an excellent place to enhance your training.
We offer a happy, fun, drama free work environment full of engaged people. We practice high quality, evidence-based medicine and do things to make sure you will, too. Things like daily rounds and monthly journal club (with beer and pizza, of course).
We take two interns each year, to spread out the emergency and patient care load, and we take great pride in teaching and training our interns to go on to great things.
So, if you, too, are happy and fun; have interesting hobbies; if you like to laugh (can you believe there are people who don’t?!) – you might be the intern we are looking for at Austin Equine.

The Austin Equine Internship is designed to further the education of recent veterinary graduates by exposing them to a large volume of diverse cases thus allowing interesting and engaged individuals the ability to develop proficient skills and confidence to excel in equine medicine. (This is a long way of saying, “It’s awesome here”)

Ok, you know it’s not all fun and games and pizza and beer. Here’s the dry stuff about work –

Duties:

Daily intern duties will include: treatment and assessment of hospitalized patients prior to 8am; after hours treatments and overnight observation of critical patients; accurate medical records, logs and client communication; participation in morning case rounds, as well as monthly scientific journal clubs.

Intern duties will be allocated in the following manner depending on case load: 50% assisting the primary clinicians with lameness workups, 10% of time assisting with surgery or anesthesia, 20% assisting primary and advanced dental cases, and 20% general ambulatory duties (preventative, reproductive). These % are in addition to the emergency case load which will span all types of equine emergencies including colics. Let’s face it, it’s mostly colic. Colic, colic, colic. And lacerations. And eyes. Colic.

As confidence and experience is gained, primary emergency on-call duties with decreased supervision will be assumed during on call weeks.

Schedule:

The normal schedule is Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 8am to 6pm. Any time off during the normally scheduled hours requires written approval.

Primary emergency duty every other week. You will be assisted, as needed, by the back-up doctor on these weeks. Once per month, the intern will be, wait for it, completely free of any duties from 8am Friday to 8am Monday.

Term of Employment: June 1, 2026- May 31, 2027

Prerequisite Application Process: Applicants should submit a CV or resume, three letters of recommendation and a letter of intent. While we don’t require a visit or externship it is strongly recommended.