Equine Medicine

[Emio]

fantastic automatic new search feature, btw.

but it didn't help. so here's mine:

i'm looking for suggestions on equine rotations. turns out i have less room than i originally thought to do outside externships. however, if i drop, say, the second Large Animal Medicine rotation at school, and go to another school or private practice to do one, i'd consider that. i would just like to be able to get off campus and see how some other places do things during my fourth year.

so, any suggestions for Medicine rotations? anybody particularly proud of their school's large animal medicine department? know of a great private practice you'd recommend? other disciplines are welcome, i just want to get off campus, and thought i'd drop the duplicate rotations in my schedule, which happens to be medicine, field service, ES, and podology.

oh, and any opinions on hagyard vs rood & riddle?

thanks in advance 🙂

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[rileyroo]

i'm only pre-vet, but i spent a week at Rood & Riddle last summer. I was with a different group of interns each day and stayed a night in the intern house for emergencies. If you have any specific questions, feel free to PM me. i don't have any info for Hagyard b/c they don't let pre-vet students in the hospital, but the large animal vet I work for sends cases/communicates with Drs at Hagyard frequently. Are you just interested in Hagyard and R&R? Have you looked into Equine Services?


ETA: are hagyard and R&R the only options for your school rotations?

 

[Ben and Me]

Hi!

I've spent some time at Southern Pines Equine in NC and I've really liked them. It's a 2 doctor practice, so not too huge, just a few staff people, but they work on some nice horses! 🙂 Plus, the great thing about being in Southern Pines is that it's a super concentrated horse area, so you don't spend a ton of time traveling from farm to farm...and the farms you get to see are awesome! They also have a small treatment area and barn, so they do a lot of PPEs at their clinic. It's much more sport horse oriented (and A TON smaller) than I'd imagine Rood and Riddle/Hagyard would be! I think they also have an apartment for interns/externs to live in (or at least they used to!) I think their caseload isn't huge during the winter (most people probably head to Florida--I went for a few days around Christmas time and it was pretty dead!) but it has always been bustling during the summer. They're really highly regarded in NC for sports medicine stuff, so they get a lot of PPEs and tricky lameness cases from across the state.

Their website is www.spequine.com

Fred McCashins is also in Southern Pines -- I think I read in an article that Dean Richardson worked for him before coming to Penn for vet school. Looks like from his title that Dr. McCashins is a Penn grad as well.

His website: http://www.carolinaequineclinicnc.com/biography.html

PM me if you want some more info about Southern Pines Equine, and I'll give you my email address!

ETA: Oops! Just saw that you wanted Medicine rotations...Southern Pines Equine really specializes in sports medicine stuff, not IM--they'll readily admit that they aren't really focused on tricky medicine cases and will refer their clients elsewhere if needed.

 

[Vaga70]

I can't really compare between R&R and Hagyard, but I know that if you're really into surgery and would like a residency that Rood & Riddle looks really good on your application. HOWEVER, I do know a few interns who have completed internships at R&R and they have a reputation of not really having much technical knowledgeable or about how to perform procedures themselves. Because the clientele is rather well-off, the interns aren't allowed to do most of the procedures. So, I guess if you're a person who is good at learning by watching or if you're really thinking of pursuing surgery, then R&R would be a really great place to be, but if you're more of a tactile learner, then maybe look at some other places.