Højgård Hestehosital offers a 13-month rotating internship position for an enthusiastic junior veterinarian who wishes to pursue further experience in an equine hospital setting. The position will suit newly graduated veterinarians, with a strong desire to develop skills within anesthesia, critical care and medical imaging.
The position: This will include block-wise rotations through the internal medicine department, anesthesia and medical imaging. The daily responsibilities include for example physical examinations of the horses in the hospital, medical treatments and assisting veterinarians with procedures, as well as Monitoring horses in general anesthesia and obtaining radiographic images. After-hours work will include evening and night treatments, emergency anesthesia, and assisting the on-call veterinarian with emergencies in the hospital.
The requirements: As the responsibilities does not include primary case responsibilities with direct owner communication, knowledge of the Danish language is not a requirement. However, we do require a good understanding of the English language, both oral and written format. EU citizenship and a veterinary license within the EU are both mandatory due to the requirement of the work permit (no exceptions). We only consider candidates with a strong equine background, as good horse handling skills are required for the position.
We offer accommodation on site for all interns, as well as 5 weeks of holiday/year.
We look forward to receiving your application and give you any information at your request. We highly encourage you to visit our clinic, but it is not a requirement. This internship is for 13 months, to guarantee a smooth and comfortable transition for both senior and junior interns. We will open 5 positions and the starting date for the rotating internships positions are: 1st of June 2026, 1st of July 2026, 1st of August 2026, 1st of September 2026 and 1st of October 2026. We will accept applications until the 6th of February 2026 and will invite the selected candidates for an online-interview.
Please send your application with a cover letter, a completed CV and a minimum of 2 references, who we may contact via phone or email, to Nele Van der Aerschot, DVM at na@eqvet.dk
We have several departments such as reproduction, surgery, ICU, lameness, medical imaging, etc. All the modern medical imaging modalities, such as radiography, scintigraphy, MRI and Computer tomography, are here in the hospital. Next to referral practice, we also do ambulatory work in the field and the racetrack, and most of our hospital-veterinarians do some field-work as well. For the surgery department we put around 500 horses on the table every year, with the most common cases being OCD and castrations. But also fracture repair, explorative laparotomy and upper airway surgery is performed in our clinic.