Internship
Internship
We are a 100% equine practice – predominantly performance horse with emphasis on western, hunter/jumper and dressage. We also serve our local non-performance horse community. The hospital is a 22,000 square foot full-service facility on 20 acres in Oakdale, California. It has two spacious surgical suites with adjacent viewing rooms. There are four padded induction/recovery rooms which are utilized by surgery and MRI. There are seven large examination rooms including specialty rooms for standing surgery, radiology, ultrasound, and endoscopy. The covered lameness area is 140 x 300 feet with hard and soft ground for optimal evaluation. We have the only high field MRI in northern California and an Asto CT. There are two 20 stall barns which separate the surgical and lameness patients from the medical, emergency, and isolation cases. The on-site podiatry center offers highly skilled farriers who see outside appointments and work closely with the veterinarians in cases that need therapeutic or corrective shoeing. Our reproductive services include assisted reproductive technology, artificial insemination, sub-fertile mare management, foaling, full-service stallion management, breeding soundness evaluation, and collection of semen for shipping and freezing both domestically and internationally.
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3 to 4, determined on a yearly basis
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The purpose of the internship is to provide new equine veterinarians with the support, additional education, and hands on experience to gain confidence as an equine general practicioner or in pursuit of residency programs.
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Please got to the AAEP internship hub:
https://aaep.org/internship/intern-veterinarian-3/
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email Dr. Becky hicks at bhicksdvm@pioneerequine.com with a CV, letter of intent, and three letters of recommendation.
Pioneer Equine Hospital strives to provide the highest quality care for our patients in a friendly and fun work environment. Interns are considered an integral component of the practice. We rely heavily on the interns to use their knowledge and skills as veterinarians and not as inexpensive labor to perform duties the primary clinicians do not want to perform. The interns will gain a great deal of hands-on experience and should be very competent at the end of the internship in performing equine surgical, medical, and reproductive skills. In the past, we have had outstanding placement to academic residency programs and associate positions around the country. Please contact us for a list of previous interns.