Goulburn Valley Equine Hospital

ABN 66 007 039 750

Offer of a Position as Intern Veterinarian

Job Description and Salary package for an Intern Veterinarian starting August 2016

Gross wages: $ 54,000 per annum

Superannuation: $ 5,130.00 per annum (9.5%)

Total Package: $ 59,130

Training programme as per attachment

Commencement date: August 2016
Employment for 12 month period with a 3 month probation period and regular reviews with the Directors

Interns are responsible for their own registration with the Veterinary Practitioners Registration Board of Victoria ()
Accommodation is available on site if needed at a cost of $130.00 per week..

Training Programme:

INTERNSHIP AT GOULBURN VALLEY EQUINE HOSPITAL

The internship programme at the Goulburn Valley Equine Hospital (GVEH) has been running for many years and has provided a large number of recent graduates with significant exposure, training and experience in all areas of equine medicine, surgery and reproduction. Many graduates of the internship programmes have gone on to complete residencies in the United States and many have found work in specialist equine centres throughout the world. Many have become specialists in their own fields.

Interns are given the opportunity to work with and train under senior and specialist veterinarians at GVEH where the case load is high and the type of cases presented is very varied. Interns and interns (trainees) work at all times under the direction of experienced senior veterinarians and so are always learning on the job.

There are two types of internships offered. The main type of internship typically lasts for 12 months, with two interns starting in November/December and two in December/ January each year. GVEH also offers several six -month internships, which run from September to the end of February each season with a total of 3 interns typically employed in this shorter internship training programme. These interns are usually new graduates from overseas, doing further training at GVEH. All interns rotate weekly through the areas of medicine, surgery (anaesthesia), reproduction and night intensive care work.

MEDICINE ROTATION

During this rotation, the intern takes primary responsibility for the care of all hospitalised horses including treatments, further diagnostic evaluation as necessary, monitoring of horses and their discharge, in close association with the senior clinicians. Interns also assist with the evaluation of horses brought to the clinic as outpatients which includes history taking, examination of the patient as appropriate and further diagnostic procedures such as X-ray, ultrasound, endoscopy (the clinic has a treadmill and a track for further investigation) and lameness evaluation. Rounds are undertaken as necessary to enable clinical discussion and interaction between the interns and senior clinicians and to evaluate and discuss cases in a group setting.

SURGERY ROTATION

The clinic undertakes a large number of surgeries each year (over 800 performed in 2000) with the case load being diverse. The clinic has 4 equine surgeons which allows the intern exposure to a great deal of expertise in this field. During this rotation, interns assist in the evaluation of patients where surgery may be an option in the treatment process. The intern takes responsibility for pre-anaesthetic work-up of horses prior to surgery and the formation of appropriate anaesthetic protocols as well as induction and general surgical preparation assisted by veterinary nurses. At every opportunity the intern scrubs in to assist the primary surgeon with the surgery. Maintenance and monitoring during anaesthesia is followed by supervision of recovery and immediate after-care in the post-operative period

REPRODUCTION ROTATION

Interns assist and participate in the palpation, scanning and treatment of mares brought to the clinic for breeding and reproductive evaluation. Many stallions are also sent to the clinic for evaluation including semen collection and evaluation, handling and freezing as necessary. Embryo transfer also occurs extensively involving flushing the donor mare, evaluation and transfer of the embryo to the recipient mare and appropriate preparation and selection of recipients. The reproduction rotation involves ambulatory work especially during the breeding season with interns accompanying Angus McKinnon to a Thoroughbred Stud as often as possible. Many research projects are also undertaken at the clinic in an effort to expand our understanding of equine breeding management.

NIGHT INTENSIVE CARE ROTATION

Interns are responsible for the night care of all intensive care patients, working under the instructions of the senior veterinarians and specialists. The night intern has phone access to the senior vet. on duty at all times and can call for extra assistance from another intern, if needed. Night nurses assist the night intensive care intern and the nurses work until late in the evening or the whole night shift