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The content and quality of veterinary internships varies, for example, regarding the balance of teaching to work.1 Recent guidelines outline how this could be better balanced.2 3 Despite the fact there is no uniformity or quality assurance of the training delivered during an internship, all European and American Specialist Veterinary Colleges require a yearlong rotating internship or an undefined equivalent clinical experience prior to starting a residency. The aim of this study is to gain an understanding of what postgraduate veterinary surgeons look for, expect and currently achieve in university programmes. Following ethical approval, 23 interns in the 2015–2016 cohort of programmes at Langford Vets and The Royal Veterinary College were surveyed. Two questionnaires (online supplementary appendix 1) were designed and trialled and delivered on an online platform (SurveyMonkey), accessed via an email link. Each respondent could only complete the survey once. Questionnaire 1 was used within one month of starting the internship programme to explore the expectations of veterinary surgeons entering internships Questionnaire 2 was used at the end of the internship. All answers were collected anonymously. ### Supplementary file 1 [vetrec-2017-104761-SP1.docx] Questions were asked about the importance of various factors to selecting the internship, levels of agreement with statements defining success in an internship, skills they expected to and did achieve, attributes associated with being a good intern and …