Employment Information
Practice name
Saginaw Valley Equine Clinic
Last Updated
November 24, 2025
Internship Type
Combined
First or Second Year Mentored Associate
Are you a new or second year veterinarian looking for a place to land where fun, leadership, experience, and mentorship are all taken seriously? SVEC may be the place for you!
We have a team of servant leaders that will give you the support and encouragement you need to grow personally and professionally. Our team is truly a family, that genuinely cares for one another.
We work like normal people. We enjoy what we do, and sometimes we need to put in more than the average day into it. We love our clients, and we love their horses. Afterall, that’s probably why we chose equine medicine in the first place, right?
We like to pursue our passions here at SVEC. We have four different teams you may find yourself on. Whether it’s the Repro Team, the Farm Service Team, the Surgery Team, or the Sports Medicine Team you are sure to find one that strikes your fancy. With our teams we work on marketing and logistics. Each team has a weekly meeting where we brainstorm and research the best ideas. Each and every person at SVEC is on a team!
We do our best to stay connected and informed through daily morning meetings, biweekly team reporting meetings, and quarterly business meetings that we all participate in. Everyone, even our high school students, know how our business operates. We know we can affect the growth of our clinic and what a vital role each of us plays.
Aside from our awesome staff, we are blessed with a pretty nice facility to work out of. Ever expanding and always inviting. We are definitely not perfect, but every day we work on trying to be the best we can be.
Staying true to our growth mindset, we have another business we call GameTime Sports Medicine. GameTime is proud to be the onsite veterinarian for many large horse shows throughout the United States. The largest being the All American Quarter Horse Congress. We are proud to be the Official Veterinarian at the Congress and have been for the last 8 years!
Our Sports Medicine Team would love to have someone who is obviously, interested in sports medicine. We need someone who’s ambition in life is to diagnose and treat world class horses on the road or at home. One of our own started as an extern, then signed on as an intern, became a fellow, and now has a very successful career here at SVEC. And we are very proud of her!
If sports medicine isn’t really your thing, that’s ok, is not the limiter. You may want to be an all arounder and we can help you get there too. You can depend on everyone here at SVEC for help, and you would have a specific vet mentor to learn from and lean on.
Our clinic is in Mid-Michigan. You are no more than minutes away from water. Michigan is beautiful in the summer with tons of things to do and see. We have a festival for everything you can think of. The Walleye Festival is in our back yard, the Corn Festival is down the road, and there are farmers markets in every small town. Michigan is also beautiful in the winter with plenty of places to ski and snowmobile. We do have four seasons, sometimes all in the same day! My favorite place to vacation in the winter and summer is the Upper Peninsula. Locally we have farm fields everywhere. If you like the big city life, Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Ann Arbor are not far away.
If you are interested and would like to know more, please give us a call at 989-790-7339, or send an email to careers@SaginawValleyEquine.com. We would love to have someone on our team who cares about the people they work with and the people they work for.
Visit our web site at www.SaginawValleyEquine.com
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- Equine general practice
- Sports medicine practice
Start date
June 1, 2026
End date
June 1, 2027
Application Deadline
December 31, 2025
Does the practice offer externships?
Yes, please email the practice contact for details
Is an in person visit or externship with the practice required to be considered for an internship?
No, but recommended
Contact Information
Saginaw
[USA] Michigan
Saginaw
48603
7319 TITTABAWASSEE RD STE 1
Practice Mailing Address
7319 TITTABAWASSEE RD STE 1 - Saginaw - Saginaw - [USA] Michigan - 48603
Clinical Experience and Responsibilities
Yes
Service rotation description
The mentored associate veterinarian will rotate between sports medicine/horse show practice, ambulatory/general practice, surgery/hospitalized patients, and theriogenology. Their responsibilities will increase over the year, according to their competence and comfort level. After the initial period of direct mentorship, the mentored associate will be prepared to see appointments and emergencies on his/her own. The staff and doctors at SVEC work in a collegial environment and the mentored associate will play a key role in case management. However, additional mentorship will continue to be provided, and the associate veterinarian staff will always be available by phone or in-person if desired/needed. For the initial 3 months, the mentored associate will cover emergencies with a senior clinician and then start primary coverage. When on-call, coverage will be approximately 50% and will consist of primary care with a senior veterinarian as back up.
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
75-90%
Patient rounds held daily with senior clinicians
Yes
Teaching rounds held
Yes
Frequency of teaching rounds
Once weekly
Weekly journal clubs held
No
M&M or other specialized rounds held
No
Intern has opportunity to attend a professional CE meeting
Yes
Intern has opportunity to complete a study or publication
Yes
Intern has access to current medical textbooks
Yes
Intern has access to online journals
Yes
In the past 5 years, how many studies/cases have been published by interns as the primary author from work pursued primarily during their intern year?
Equipment the intern has exposure to within the practice
- Arthroscopy
- Laparoscopy
- Fracture repair sets
- Gastroscopy
- Endoscopy
- Dynamic airway endoscopy
- Stat CBC analyzer
- Stat whole blood chemistry analyzer
- Blood gas analysis
- On site diagnostic lab
- Digital radiography
- Ultrasound linear probe
- Ultrasound macroconvex probe
- Ultrasound microconvex probe
- Ultrasound endorectal probe
- ECG
- ETCO2 monitoring
- Shockwave
- Stall side orthobiologics
- Stem cell capability/utilization
- Embryo Transfer
- Advanced podiatry/therapeutic farriery
- Power dentistry
- Other (please list)
Oocyte all-in-one probe for ovum pickup (OPU)
Any additional information the practice would like to share on their internship program:
Official Veterinarian of All American Quarter Horse Congress; extensive sports medicine coverage of major western performance horse events; advanced reproductive techniques such as ICSI and OPU.
Caseload
Total number annual cases
5619
Total number ambulatory cases
2263
Total number in-house cases
2232
Avg number of after hour emergencies per week in the busiest time of year
Less than 5
Avg number of after hour emergencies per week in the least busy time of year
Less than 5
Significant seasonality to the caseload
Yes
Seasonality description
Reproductive season in Michigan is heavy during January through September; this seasonality is increasing in the fall due to ICSI/frozen embryo production. Sports medicine is heavy during the quarter horse show season of February through November.
Species other than equids
No
Number of specialty certified clinicians
Number of clinicians in direct support of program
7
Diplomats of the following specialties (including their European Equivalents)
ACVS – American College of Veterinary Surgery - 1
Other personnel of note (outside specialists, farriers, dentists, etc)
N/A
Additional certifications/area of expertise represented in the practice
Acupuncture certification, Chiropractic certification
Technician present on ambulatory calls
Yes
Overnight technical staff (if hospital present)
Yes
Other details about technician support of intern doctors
The mentored associate veterinarian will rarely not have a technician to support them on cases, whether that be in hospital or ambulatory work. There is also a technician always on-call to assist with overnight coverage.
Compensation
Annual Salary
>$65k
Additional opportunity for emergency compensation
No
Opportunities for additional income (production bonuses, working horse shows, etc).
Yes
Profit based clinic-wide team incentive program.
Benefits
Benefits offered
Yes
Value of total annual compensation
$145,00-150,000
Housing offered
Yes
Housing Type
Other
Housing Amount
$
Paid time off (PTO) offered
Yes
# of PTO days
12
PTO stipulations
N/A
Health insurance offered
Yes for employee plus dependents
Amount of health insurance premium intern is responsible for
Everything over $300 per month (generally that is enough to cover the individual with $0 additional cost)
Dental insurance offered
Yes
Life insurance offered
Yes
Short-term disability insurance offered
No
Long-term disability insurance offered
Yes
Liability insurance offered
Yes
CE stipend offered
Yes
License/DEA fees reimbursed / stipend offered
Yes
State license required
Yes
USDA license required
Yes
DEA license required
No
Association fees reimbursed / stipend offered
Yes
Student loan payments reimbursed / stipend offered
No
401K program offered
Yes
Employer matching offered
Yes
3% matching for Simple IRA.
Clothing / logo wear stipend offered
Yes
Phone or phone stipend offered
Yes
Maternity / paternity leave offered
Yes
Discounted pet care and / or a pet medications policy offered
Yes
Practice vehicle or mileage reimbursement offered
Yes
Other benefits offered
N/A
Contract
Non-compete clause required
Yes
Non-compete details
N/A
Non-US residents may apply
Yes
Is visa support provided?
Yes
Method internship offers are made
After the interview process, there is a position offer summary that would have to be signed at which point a signing bonus is issued. Prior to the first day of work, a signed contract and proof of state licensure is required.
Earliest date of internship offer made in the last 3 years
November 1st, but would consider earlier for the right candidate
Latest date of internship offer made in the last 3 years
Offers made up to the end of the calendar year prior to the mentored associate program year.
Average time provided to internship candidates to consider an offer
30 days
Outcomes Assessment
How long has the practice offered internships?
6 years
Number of interns from this program who applied for a residency in the past 5 years
1
Number of interns from this program who entered a residency position directly out of the internship in the past 5 years
Number of interns from this program who accepted a second or specialty internship in the past 5 years
1
Number of interns from this program who accepted a residency position in the past 5 years
1
Number of interns retained by the practice as associates in the past 5 years
2
Of the interns that started the program in the past 5 years, how many are still in equine practice (and/or in an advanced training program targeted at specialty equine practice)?
100%
Number of former interns currently employed by the practice
2
Are current or former interns from the practice available for reference?
Yes, email the practice contact for details.
