Employment Information
Practice name
Littleton Equine Medical Center
Last Updated
September 12, 2024
Internship Type
Combined
Our mission is to provide recent veterinary school graduates with experience and mentorship in a busy, multi-doctor equine private practice. Our practice provides high quality medicine and service to a large and diverse clientele, thereby exposing our interns to all facets of equine veterinary practice. Our doctors and staff are committed to ensuring our interns receive adequate mentorship, hands-on experience, and independence as a doctor to prepare them for either specialty residency training or to be able to enter equine practice with the confidence, knowledge, and skills needed to be successful.
Interns rotate on a weekly basis through 6 different services, spending approximately half of their time in a referral hospital setting and the other half as an ambulatory veterinarian. During the first 2 months of the internship, interns will work closely with staff doctors for one-on-one training to sharpen and hone their clinical skills. As the year progresses, interns will see and manage some cases on their own while always having a staff doctor available for consultation. There is always a surgeon and internist available for hospitalized cases.
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- Equine general practice
- Sports medicine practice
- Equine/LA surgical residency
- Equine/LA medicine residency
- Equine/LA critical care residency/fellowship
- Ophthalmology residency
- Dentistry residency
- Imaging residency
- Anesthesia residency
Start date
June 9, 2025
End date
June 25, 2026
Application Deadline
September 15, 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, but recommended
Contact Information
Littleton, CO
[USA] Colorado
Arapahoe
80120
8025 South Santa Fe Drive
Practice Mailing Address
8025 South Santa Fe Drive - Littleton, CO - Arapahoe - [USA] Colorado - 80120
Clinical Experience and Responsibilities
Yes
Service rotation description
Interns rotate on a weekly basis through 6 different services – surgery, medicine, hospital ER, daytime field ER, overnight field ER, and flex/sports medicine/elective rotation. On hospital rotations, interns will help manage and care for hospitalized patients along with one of the specialist doctors, scrub into surgeries, assist with advanced diagnostics procedures, and participate in routine appointments. On ambulatory/field rotations, interns will have the opportunity to see and manage some cases on their own, particularly emergencies, with backup support from a staff doctor. In addition, they will have exposure to all facets of ambulatory practice including routine health care, lameness exams, dentistry, reproductive work, chiropractic and acupuncture, and prepurchase exams.
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Yes
Yes
Yes
25-50%
Patient rounds held daily with senior clinicians
Yes
Teaching rounds held
Yes
Frequency of teaching rounds
Once weekly
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
No
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
- 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
- ECG
- Exercise ECG
- ETCO2 monitoring
- Shockwave
- Stall side orthobiologics
- Stem cell capability/utilization
- Embryo Transfer
- Power dentistry
Any additional information the practice would like to share on their internship program:
In addition to didactic teaching rounds which occur weekly, interns participate in hands-on learning sessions such as ultrasound and palpation lab sessions multiple times throughout the year.
Caseload
Total number annual cases
30000
Total number ambulatory cases
23000
Total number in-house cases
10500
Avg number of after hour emergencies per week in the busiest time of year
25-50
Avg number of after hour emergencies per week in the least busy time of year
10-25
Significant seasonality to the caseload
Yes
Seasonality description
In general, LEqMC is busiest between April and October, with potential small upticks of activity in December (during AAEP Convention covering for regional veterinarians) and January (during National Western Stock Show). While the winter months are generally less busy, the practice experiences less seasonality than places with high reproductive case load such as central Kentucky.
Species other than equids
No
Number of specialty certified clinicians
Number of clinicians in direct support of program
18
Diplomats of the following specialties (including their European Equivalents)
ACVIM – American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine - 1
ACVO – American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists - 1
ACVS – American College of Veterinary Surgery - 4
Diplomates of other specialties
2
Other personnel of note (outside specialists, farriers, dentists, etc)
ISELP- International Society of Equine Locomotor Pathology Certified (1)ABVP- American Board of Veterinary Practitioners (1)
Additional certifications/area of expertise represented in the practice
Acupuncture certification, Chiropractic certification, MBA
Technician present on ambulatory calls
No
Overnight technical staff (if hospital present)
Yes
Other details about technician support of intern doctors
In-hospital overnight technician coverage is present outside of extenuating circumstances such as unexpected illness or call-outs from staff. On Saturdays intern doctors are assigned a daytime field assistant to assist in seeing emergencies once out of the training period if staffing availability permits. Of the 42 support staff, some are credentialed technicians while others are assistants with extensive on the job training. ICU staff positions are preferentially hired as credentialed technician staff. Nearly all directly interact with intern doctors during their program. All staff doctors have one or multiple technicians or assistants assigned to them who also directly support the intern doctors when on those rotations.
Compensation
Annual Salary
$30-35k
Total benefits package
Download the Benefits Worksheet
Additional opportunity for emergency compensation
Yes
In addition to the annual salary, interns are compensated 80% of the daytime, after-hours, and anesthesia emergency fee for each emergency the intern responds to when no other staff DVM’s are present. This compensation is paid quarterly and on average provides an additional $10,000 in income per intern doctor.
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
69915.56
Housing offered
Yes
Housing Type
Other
Housing Amount
$14400
Paid time off (PTO) offered
Yes
# of PTO days
11
PTO stipulations
Time off or away from practice is 11 days (included in salary) and not to exceed five days in a row.
Health insurance offered
Yes for employee
Amount of health insurance premium intern is responsible for
43% for individual
Dental insurance offered
Yes
Life insurance offered
No
Short-term disability insurance offered
No
Long-term disability insurance offered
Yes
Liability insurance offered
Yes
CE stipend offered
Yes
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
No
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
Vision 50%
Medical (3 plans available)
Dental (2 plans available) base plan is covered 100% by practice
Long Term Disability is covered 100% by practice
Employee discount: 50% services, cost plus 10-20% dispensed meds
CE expense budget $1500
Contract
Non-compete clause required
No
Non-US residents may apply
Yes
Method internship offers are made
Verbal and electronic
Earliest date of internship offer made in the last 3 years
August
Latest date of internship offer made in the last 3 years
September 15
Average time provided to internship candidates to consider an offer
1 week
Outcomes Assessment
How long has the practice offered internships?
> 50 years
Number of interns from this program who applied for a residency in the past 5 years
16
Number of interns from this program who entered a residency position directly out of the internship in the past 5 years
8
Number of interns from this program who accepted a second or specialty internship in the past 5 years
7
Number of interns from this program who accepted a residency position in the past 5 years
16
Number of interns retained by the practice as associates in the past 5 years
5
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
12
Are current or former interns from the practice available for reference?
Yes, email the practice contact for details.
Additional information about the internship program
Paid 2-week training period which overlaps with current interns Relocation expense reimbursed up to $1800
