Rotating Internship

General Information

Position

Rotating Internship

Last Updated

July 8, 2025

Internship Type

Combined

Position Full Description

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.

Number of intern positions of this type

This internship is a good fit for prospective interns wanting to pursue:

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

Anticipated Start date

June 1, 2026

Anticipated End date

June 17, 2027

Preferred Application Date

September 15, 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

Practice City

Littleton, CO

Practice State

[USA] Colorado

Practice County

Arapahoe

Practice Zip Code

80120

Practice Address

8025 South Santa Fe Drive

Practice Mailing Address

8025 South Santa Fe Drive - Littleton, CO - Arapahoe - [USA] Colorado - 80120

Clinical Experience and Responsibilities

Intern rotates between services

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.

Intern is primary case responsibility for first opinion and emergency cases

Yes

Intern has primary case care responsibility for complex cases with supervision

Yes

Intern is primary doctor performing entry-level procedures

Yes

Intern is primary surgeon on any procedures

Yes

Percentage of time intern is directly supervised

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

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
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

Number of specialty certified clinicians

Number of clinicians in direct support of program

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

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

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).

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

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

Short-term disability insurance offered

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

Association fees reimbursed / stipend offered

Yes

Student loan payments reimbursed / stipend offered

401K program offered

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

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

Number of interns from this program who entered a residency position directly out of the internship in the past 5 years

Number of interns from this program who accepted a second or specialty internship in the past 5 years

Number of interns from this program who accepted a residency position in the past 5 years

Number of interns retained by the practice as associates in the past 5 years

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

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

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