Rotating Hospital Internship

Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Saratoga is located in the lovely and historic Saratoga Springs, New York. Our state-of-the-art practice stands adjacent to the historic Saratoga Race Course – the site of the oldest major thoroughbred horse race in America, The Travers, and is surrounded by numerous thoroughbred breeding farms and sport horse barns. We have served as the official equine hospital for the Vermont Summer Festival, Lake Placid Horse Show, HITS Saugerties Series and many other local events. Established in 2013, Rood & Riddle in Saratoga was Rood & Riddle’s first clinical venture outside of Kentucky. The Saratoga hospital includes two surgical suites, three anesthesia induction and recovery stalls, one standing procedures room, nuclear scintigraphy, computed tomography, fluoroscopy, a radiology suite, PET Scan, isolation ward, laboratory, and an ambulatory garage. Our staff includes two internal medicine specialists, two surgeons, eight ambulatory clinicians, and 25 veterinary technicians. Interns gain valuable experience in both a hospital and ambulatory environment, with a rotation through all services, providing a well rounded experience.

With the large number of breeding farms in the region, spring provides a wealth of experience in neonatal care, foaling and dystocias, and peri-parturient management of conditions like colic, peri-parturient hemorrhage, and placentitis. Summer brings the addition of racehorse work, both Thoroughbred and Standardbred, with lameness evaluations, orthopedic surgery, and pneumonia cases. Year round, non-racehorse cases make up about 50% of the work load with a variety of cases from metabolic and weight loss work ups to imaging and both medical and surgical colics.

Aside from the robust case load, interns also participate in three time weekly barn rounds, weekly journal clubs, and grand rounds, helping to provide a broader learning experience with the caseload of a large private practice but the learning environment of an academic program. Interns have gone on to both general practice and to residencies in medicine, surgery, and anesthesia.