Internships: Veterinary Medicine

Newcastle Equine Centre has 1-2 positions available for our equine rotating internship, depending on the previous cohort and time of year. Please email the contact info below to enquire when the next openings will be available if you are interested in our internship programme.

Our internship offers the opportunity to experience both general and specialist referral equine practice with a team of experienced equine practitioners and specialists in equine surgery, medicine, and reproduction… and live by the beach while doing it! We pride ourselves on offering a diverse, hands-on internship and preparing our interns to succeed in whatever aspect of equine practice they decide to pursue post-internship.

Our practice is located in beautiful Newcastle adjacent to Newcastle Racecourse and five minutes from many of the most beautiful beaches in NSW. We have an interesting and highly varied caseload of both first opinion and referral cases servicing approximately 50% Thoroughbreds (both racehorses and Stud medicine), and 50% performance/pleasure horses. We operate using state of the art diagnostic equipment including digital radiography units, colour flow doppler ultrasound, video endoscopy, dynamic endoscopy, laser and a fully equipped in-house laboratory.

Applicants should be highly motivated, enthusiastic individuals looking to make the most of the diverse learning opportunity. The successful applicants will receive experience in the fields of surgery, anesthesia, internal medicine, lameness, reproduction, laboratory procedures and imaging (radiology, ultrasonography, endoscopy and dynamic endoscopy) with continuous staff support during 2-week rotations in each department of Medicine, Surgery and Ambulatory. The successful interns will have an internship program that includes involvement in the diagnosis and treatment of hospital cases as well as general ambulatory work, under the supervision of experience equine veterinarians and specialists. All veterinarians including interns at NEC work a 4-day work week. After-hours on-call duties are covered by the team of associate veterinarians, with the secondary back-up being shared between the interns until skills are established, then the interns move into primary on-call (with the same team of associates and specialists rostered on for support), on a 1-in-3 roster.

Applicants must be eligible to work and register as a Veterinary Surgeon in New South Wales. The salary package is in line with the Award and starts at $68,500 AUD plus Superannuation as well as including fully furnished shared accommodation adjacent to the hospital, utilities, Wi-fi, shared work vehicle, phone, four weeks annual leave, and access to local continuing education.

All enquiries should be directed to lisanne.gallant@newcastleequine.com.au or call (02) 4927 6135. Applications should include; a letter of intent, curriculum vitae and two letters of reference to Dr Lisanne Gallant.

Applications are open until the positions are filled.