Ready to lead a veterinary team while staying connected to the medicine that matters to you?
This Medical Director opportunity in the greater Baltimore area offers the chance to guide a practice that combines urgent care with expanding general practice services. You’ll help shape clinical standards, support fellow veterinarians, and influence how the team delivers care as the practice grows.
For a veterinarian who enjoys mentoring others and balancing clinical work with leadership, this role offers a meaningful next step.
What Could Make This a Better Move
Shape clinical quality. Guide medical decision-making and help establish consistent standards across urgent and routine care.
Develop other veterinarians. Mentor colleagues, share clinical knowledge, and support their continued professional growth.
Influence practice development. Work with practice management and hospital leadership to improve medical services and team performance.
Stay involved in patient care. Combine leadership responsibilities with hands-on veterinary medicine.
Help expand general practice. Contribute to the development of wellness and routine care services alongside existing urgent care.
Grow as a leader. Access leadership development and mentorship resources to strengthen your management and clinical leadership skills.
What You’ll Be Doing
This small-animal practice is transitioning toward a combined urgent care and general practice model. The clinical scope includes patients needing timely attention as well as preventive and routine medical care. As Medical Director, you’ll help oversee clinical standards, mentor the veterinary team, and work with practice leadership to support the development of both service areas.
Who Might Love This
This opportunity may suit an experienced veterinarian ready to take the next step into medical leadership, a clinician who enjoys teaching and developing colleagues, or a leader who wants to help guide a practice through a period of growth without stepping away from clinical medicine entirely.
Practical Details
Role: Medical Director Veterinarian
Location: Greater Baltimore, Maryland
Compensation: Details available during the confidential conversation.
Additional compensation: Medical Director stipend
Compensation structure: Base salary plus production potential, without negative accrual.
Requirements: DVM/VMD or equivalent, Maryland veterinary license in good standing or eligibility, and active or eligible DEA and Maryland CDS registrations.
Weekend/on-call: Specific expectations available upon request.
Benefits
Eligible team members may have access to:
401(k) with employer match
Mental health resources
Paid parental leave
Childcare and elder care support
Continuing education funding and courses
Pet-related discounts
Student loan support tools
Not actively looking?
That’s okay. If you’re interested in clinical leadership, mentoring veterinarians, and helping develop a combined urgent care and general practice model, contact Beyond Just You Recruiting confidentially before applying directly. We’ll share more details privately so you can decide whether this opportunity fits your goals.
Email: mikaela@beyondjustu.com
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