Veterinarian - Portage, MI
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Job Description
Who We Are
Milwood Animal Clinic in Portage, MI is looking for an associate veterinarian to join our tight-knit, supportive team. We treat dogs, cats, and exotics and offer an excellent opportunity for a new graduate seeking mentorship and experience, or an experienced veterinarian with an interest in surgery.
Why Join Milwood Animal Clinic?
- Medical & Clinical Opportunities
- Treat a diverse caseload of dogs, cats, and exotic pets
- Excellent opportunity to develop your surgical skills with a strong surgical caseload
- Option to create a schedule focused exclusively on surgery or combine surgery with appointments
- Exotic medicine opportunities with a team experienced in exotic pet handling and nursing care
- Support for veterinarians interested in developing or expanding their exotic medicine skills
- Updated hospital with advanced diagnostic and surgical equipment
- Opportunity to develop your individual areas of professional interest
- Compassionate, high-quality medicine with an emphasis on excellent patient care
- Mentorship & Professional Development
- Supportive environment for building confidence and expanding your clinical skills
- Opportunities to learn from experienced colleagues across small animal and exotic medicine
- Encouragement to pursue and develop your individual professional interests
- CE allowance to support continued learning and professional growth
- Team, Schedule & Workplace Benefits
- Supportive, tight-knit team with a strong reputation in the community
- 5:1 staff-to-doctor ratio for excellent support
- 4 LVTs plus a highly experienced veterinary team
- Flexible scheduling tailored to your professional interests
- Ability to focus exclusively on dogs and cats if exotics aren't your interest
- No weekend or on-call requirements
- Local ER provides evening and weekend emergency coverage
- Strong commitment to work/life balance
- Collaborative environment where doctors are encouraged to grow professionally
- Team that values both patients and employees
Our Updated Hospital Offers
- Diagnostic ultrasound
- Digital radiography, including dental
- Two IM3 high-speed dental units
- In-house blood chemistry analyzer
- Rigid endoscopes
- Incubators for exotic patients
- Radiosurgery
- Tonopen
- Blood pressure monitoring
- Pulse oximetry
- Capnography
- ECG
- Multiple patient warming units
- IV fluid pumps
About Portage
Portage is conveniently located halfway between Chicago and Detroit, offering easy access to both cities. Locally, you'll find 13 public parks, including Romona Park and its beautiful beach on Long Lake. Lake Michigan is just a short drive away, and the area offers a vibrant downtown with museums, live entertainment, restaurants, and brewpubs.
Benefits
- We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package including:
- Competitive salary
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- CE allowance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid vacation
- Professional dues
- Professional liability coverage
- Mentorship and ongoing professional development
- And more!
If you're looking for a supportive team, excellent work/life balance, and the flexibility to build a career around your professional interests, we'd love to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities
Provide high-quality medical and surgical care for dogs, cats, and exotic pets. Collaborate with a supportive team to maintain excellent patient care standards and professional growth.
Requirements
The position is open to new graduates seeking mentorship or experienced veterinarians with an interest in surgery. Candidates must be capable of working in a team-oriented clinical environment.
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Veterinarian - Portage, MI at Milwood Animal Clinic a 7.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the Above average in Veterinary Medicine — ranked against 2,971 active Veterinary Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.
Veterinary Medicine Career Context
Of the 50 active Veterinary Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 68% have no call, 70% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Michigan is 96.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.8% of Michigan clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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- No weekends
- Includes call
Living in Portage
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $290k
- Typical market rent
- $1,540/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 20 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 94.8
- State income tax
- Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Kalamazoo-Portage, MI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.