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Small Animal Internal Medicine Residency

Overview

The main goals of our three-year residency program are to enable the resident to build the credentials, knowledge, skills, and aptitudes necessary to achieve the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) small animal internal medicine specialty board certification and to start work as an internist. We are very proud of this program and our recent graduates who have gone on to have successful careers in both private specialty practice and academia.

Faculty

There are 10 small animal internal medicine diplomates in direct support of our residency program:

  • Dr. Audrey Cook,
  • Dr. Johanna Heseltine,
  • Dr. Kate Aicher
  • Dr. Jonathan Lidbury,
  • Dr. Katee Creevy,
  • Dr. Jörg Steiner,
  • Dr. Sue Yee Lim
  • Dr. Carly Patterson,
  • Dr. Andrew Bugbee,
  • Dr. Emily Gould.

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Our internists have a wide variety of clinical expertise and interests, including infectious diseases, gastroenterology, hepatology, urology, nephrology, interventional radiology, endoscopy, and biomarker discovery. We pride ourselves on collegiality, strong mentorship, and having a team-orientated approach to patient care.

We are fortunate to have three cardiologists, three oncologists, three neurologists, three criticalists, three radiation-oncologists, three ophthalmologists, and two dermatologists in direct support of the program. This ensures that our residents receive broad and complete training. Each resident will also spend time with our four radiologists and four clinical pathologists to gain important interpretation skills in imaging and laboratory medicine.

Program

Our program provides residents with a relatively busy but balanced caseload. This means they become well-rounded internists but also allows them to become proficient in a wide variety of procedures, including flexible and rigid endoscopy, laparoscopic liver biopsy, bone marrow aspirate/biopsy, arthrocentesis, and feeding tube placement. The internal medicine section also has an increasing caseload of patients requiring interventional radiology/endoscopy procedures, such as urethral/ureteral stenting, laser lithotripsy, and laser ablation of intramural ectopic ureters.

Residents are provided with many opportunities to receive didactic training, including weekly board examination preparation seminars, journal club, book club, as well as the option to attend rounds run by other specialty sections within the department and college. Residents are also required to present 3 seminars over the course of their training program, which is very valuable for the development of their presentation skills.

Responsibilities

Residents are allowed a generous amount of time free from clinical responsibilities to prepare for the ACVIM board examinations, typically 4 weeks for the general examination and 8 weeks for the specialty examination. Our residents have an excellent pass rate for both the ACVIM general and specialty examinations.

Research

Completion of a clinical research project, which can be used to fulfill the ACVIM publication requirement, is strongly encouraged. Many of our residents present such work at the annual ACVIM Forum. Faculty guidance, time off clinics, and funding, often from a generous intramural grant program, are provided to fully support resident research projects.

Enrollment in a postgraduate degree is not a requirement of our program but combined residency/post-graduate degree programs are a possibility. Candidates who are interested in such a program should discuss the available options with Dr. Jonathan Lidbury who is the Residency Program Director (jlidbury@cvm.tamu.edu).

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Previous Residents Talk about the Program

“The medicine services are busy, but we have great support from our senior clinicians and perform a lot of diagnostic procedures. It’s a great program.”
—Joseph Cyrus Parambeth, BVSc & AH, MVSc (Vet Med), PhD candidate, Medicine Resident 2015–2018

“We see a wide range of cases and every day is different. The faculty is very hands-on, and I am always learning.”
—Melanie Puchot, DVM, Medicine Resident 2014–2017