Your internship is one of the most important, most formative years of your professional life. You want to learn, be challenged, explore career possibilities, and have the very best chance to be accepted into a residency program. You want your internship to be at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

At Texas A&M, you will be exposed to numerous specialties and work side-by-side with experts in their field. Unlike some teaching hospitals, our senior faculty will be present on the clinic floor seeing cases – and you will be with them. You will be challenged daily by these experts and guided appropriately in your case management.

Texas A&M has made a commitment to education and to providing time for rounds for our interns. Interns are encouraged, and in some cases required, to attend morning rounds and journal clubs. Intern-specific rounds are held once weekly and you will present and discuss recent cases in intimate detail. All interns will present a seminar at the end of the year. For many, this also results in a publication.

Over the past 3 years, two-thirds of our interns who chose to pursue residency or specialized internships did so successfully. We will place you on key services of interest when you arrive. This will allow you to garner the critical letters of recommendation you will need to be competitive for a residency program.

Our hospital is in the third phase of renovations, with enlarged examination, treatment, and rounds areas. We already have a CT unit. Soon, we will have an MRI on-site to further our diagnostic capabilities.

Our caseload and number of faculty allow the Teaching Hospital to be subdivided into numerous specialties. The Internal Medicine Service is divided into a General Internal Medicine Service and a dedicated Feline Internal Medicine Service. Oncology, Neurology and Ophthalmology are also dedicated services. Surgery is divided into Soft Tissue, Orthopedic, and Elective Surgery Services. All interns will rotate through the Elective Surgery Service, giving you the opportunity to enhance your surgical skills without being “in line” behind a clinician and resident. In addition to rotating through many of the services, you will also have elective time to spend on any service or area of the hospital in which you wish to gain more experience.

You will spend time on our rapidly growing Emergency/Critical Care Service both during the daytime and after-hours. This is an excellent opportunity to be the key decision-maker. But, rest assured, you will always have helpful back-up to contact when you just aren’t sure what to do next. The after-hours emergency service is busy and profitable. We want you to profit as well. All interns are involved in a profit-sharing program. Each emergency you see means a bigger paycheck as well as more experience.

You are about to embark on an intensive year of training and are going to make many sacrifices doing it. You should gain all that you can from the experience. At Texas A&M, we want you to become the best boarded-specialist you can be. We are dedicated to providing a successful year that allows this to happen.

Please feel free to contact Dr. Mark J. Stickney, Chair of the Internship Selection Committee for more information.

QUOTATION: “My internship has exceeded all of my expectations!” Dr. Sara Fiocchi, Intern 2005-2006