Family Medicine Physician - Rural
About The Position
SEARHC is seeking a Family Medicine Physician to join their team in Haines, Alaska. This role offers the opportunity to practice full-spectrum primary care in a mission-driven community, building meaningful relationships with patients and colleagues. The position provides clinical autonomy, supported by a collaborative team, and allows for an outdoor lifestyle. SEARHC is a large Native-run healthcare organization committed to quality healthcare that honors Alaska Native and American Indian traditions, while ensuring access to advanced medical technologies. The organization is expanding with new facilities and plans for future hospitals.
Requirements
- MD or DO with active/unrestricted Alaska medical license or ability to obtain license.
- Board-certified or board-eligible in Family Medicine.
- Unrestricted DEA.
- Required: ACLS, ATLS, BLS, NRP, PALS, BLSO or CALS.
Nice To Haves
- Possible rotation at the Klukwan Health Center, 20 miles outside of Haines.
- Occasional long-term care and home visits.
- Optional involvement in rural outreach or consultative support.
Responsibilities
- Provides comprehensive primary care including diagnosis, treatment, minor procedures, coordination of care, referral, preventative care, and health maintenance to a dedicated panel of patients.
- Participates fully in shared local urgent/emergent care on-call rotation.
- Maintains accurate and timely documentation of services in accordance with SEARHC policy.
- Provides optimal patient experience using strong listening and communication skills that build long term patient care relationships.
- Actively participates in SEARHC quality patient care initiatives and quality assurance programs.
- Actively participates in provider and clinic meetings, and SEARHC medical staff functions.
- Maintains patient-facing clinical hours proportional to assigned FTE, with a minimum requirement of 36 patient-facing hours per week for a 1.0 FTE appointment; remaining work hours may be allocated to administrative duties, meetings, training, and other non-face-to-face patient care activities.
- At times the Physician may be directed to provide services outside of the clinic to meet the patient’s needs, e.g., local long-term care center, Pioneer Home, patient’s home, and local schools.
Benefits
- Retirement
- Paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- Health insurance
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Life insurance
- Long and short-term disability
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage with flexible spending options (FSAs).
- Basic life insurance, Short & Long Term Disability, Accident - Critical Illness – Hospital Insurances, Identity & Fraud Protection, Legal Insurance, and Pet Insurance.
- $6000 pre-tax annual CME allowance.
- 401k plan with up to 5% employer match beginning on your date of hire, including Roth and 457b plans.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
