Tenure Track Faculty Member, Large Animal Medicine

Tenure Track Faculty Member, Large Animal Medicine

Applications are invited from qualified individuals for a full-time tenure track faculty position in Large Animal Internal Medicine in the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, and who have training and experience in large animal medicine, including in-house primary care and referral cases. The Large Animal Internal Medicine team provides services for equine as well as food and fiber animals. This teacher-scholar position is a 50% appointment in clinical teaching and service, with out-of-hours service currently shared with two other faculty members.

Additional teaching responsibilities include the delivery of didactic lectures to the DVM undergraduate students; supervision of graduate students; and formalized training and supervision of interns and residents. The successful applicant must be able to communicate effectively, work collegially, and collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds

The Veterinary Medical Centre at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine is a state-of-the-art facility serving western Canada as an AVMA and AAHA accredited hospital and referral centre. The advanced imaging equipment includes a 320 detector row Toshiba Aquilion One CT scanner, Millennium MPR/MPS Gamma Camera with Genie AcQ software, Philips BV Pulsera C-arm Fluoroscope, 2 Toshiba Aplio 300, 4 Sound DR systems.

MRI technology includes in-house Siemens Harmony Tesla MRI and standing equine MRI in the Ryan-Dube Equine Performance Centre which also has a high-speed treadmill and an over-the-ground endoscope.

The WCVM is western Canada’s regional college of veterinary medicine. It is part of a comprehensive academic health sciences group on the university campus, with access to facilities including the Canadian Light Source and the Biomedical Beamline and Saskatchewan Centre for Cyclotron Sciences.