Internships

Interns will receive a full 'hands on' experience at Peninsula Equine's year long internship program.

Interns will develop professional and client communications skills through hands on experience with a predominately performance horse practice. A progressive approach to ambulatory & sports medicine, diagnostics, and equine emergency hospital care will help you achieve the expectations of this year-long internship. Responsibilities will include hospital duties, patient care/monitoring, client communications, anaesthesia, assisting in surgery, receiving and working up referrals as well as assisting staff doctors with lameness workups, pre-purchase exams, ambulatory medicine and field emergencies. Interns share emergency duty and for the first 4 - 6 months are supervised by staff clinicians. When interns are judged as being ready to work on their own, selected emergencies will be given to them to manage.

Interns must be graduates of a US or US accredited vet school, possess a California license & have developed good equine and people skills. We highly encourage clinic visits or participation in our Externship program in order to gain a true picture of our practice and the people who work here.

Benefits include salary, housing, medical plan, professional liability and continuing education.

Snapshot of Internship Information (printable version of snapshot information - PDF)

• Practice Name: Peninsula Equine Inc   
• Primary Contact: Russ G. Peterson, DVM, MS
• Name of Vets on Staff: Russ G. Peterson, DVM, MS, Matt Randall, DVM, Sandra Bauer, DVM
• Support Staff: 3 Technicians / 3 Office Staff / 2 Barn Staff
• Type of Practice: Equine ambulatory and full service hospital which receives referral surgery cases as well as elective surgeries and lameness workups.   Services include U/S, arthroscopy, digital radiography, nuclear medicine, thermography, and general medicine.
• Facility: 10 Hospital stalls, 5,000 sf. hospital and adjacent 2,000 sf. office space and intern housing.
• Caseload: Ambulatory, elective, arthroscopic & emergency surgery, lameness, sports medicine cases.
• Caseload Breakdown: Ambulatory (40%), surgery (25%), lameness (30%), medicine and specialty (5%)

Expectations & Responsibilities
At the completion of your internship you will know and be comfortable with managing & executing the tasks and responsibilities listed below. Learn more about our intern expectations and responsibilities (PDF)

• IV catheter placement and maintenance.
• Performing and interpreting an abdominocentesis.
• Passing a naso-gastric tube.
• Working-up a colic: order of procedures/client communication/validation of plan.
• Interpreting a CBC/chemistry panel
• Performing a basic lameness exam:
  • Landmarks and performance - lame horse/poor performance horse
  • PDN, basisesamoid, abaxial, low 4 point, and high 4 point nerve blocks
  • Coffin, pastern, fetlock, carpal, tarsal, elbow, shoulder, and stifle injection sites.
  • Digital sheath injection.
• +/- of intra-articular medications.
• Naming basic surgical instruments.
• Anatomy of the equine:
  • Skull, limbs (soft tissue and skeletal), abdomen and axial skeleton
  • Dentition
• Dental problems (Scott L. & Staff)
• Natural balance trimming and shoeing and the principles behind it.
• Equine fluid therapy (IV/Oral)
• Fracture prognosis, emergency care and treatments.
• Laceration repair and treatment.
• Flexor tendon/suspensory anatomy and ultrasound anatomy.
• Desmitis, tendonitis- dx, tx, px
• Colic prognosis based on diagnosis.
• Vaccination protocols.
• Support personnel management.
• Time management as an equine ambulatory practitioner.
• Basic practice management.
• Effective client communication.

 

 

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100 Ansel Lane, Menlo Park, CA 94028

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