Physician - Family Medicine

Sanford Health • Park Rapids, MN

48d • Onsite

About The Position

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. This position is for a BE/BC Family Medicine Physician in our Park Rapids Clinic. The practice is outpatient with no call, operating Monday-Friday from 8 AM to 5 PM. The physician will join a team of one physician and one APP, supported by LPN, lab/X-ray, and a patient access representative. Outreach specialties providing services in the clinic include cardiology, oncology, ortho, podiatry, nephrology, OB, and diabetes education. The Bemidji community, surrounded by natural beauty and located on Lake Bemidji, is a four-season destination and a center for retail, education, medicine, and government, with a cost of living 17% below the national average.

Requirements

• M.D. or D.O. degree.
• Successful completion of a Family Medicine residency program accredited by the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) or the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada.
• Certification in the primary area of practice by the appropriate specialty/subspecialty board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), as applicable.
• Applicants who are not board certified at the time of application but who have completed their residency training within the last five years shall be eligible, however must achieve board certification within five years from the date of completion of their residency training unless the appropriate governing Board waives such requirement.
• Demonstrate active involvement in the clinical aspects of Family Medicine by providing a case log that includes 25 vaginal deliveries, 50 adult medical patients, and 10 inpatient care of children under the age of 18 (excluding normal newborn), as applicable to privileges being requested, in the last 12 months.
• If not applying directly out of residency, provide a quality profile from hospital(s) where he/she currently has privileges showing his/her clinical activity for the last 12 months, including numbers of procedures performed, morbidity, mortality, infection rates, and other complications.
• If applicant has just completed residency, provide their residency procedure log and a list of completed rotations, as applicable.

Responsibilities

• Perform history and physical examination.
• Admit patients (if applicable to the setting).
• Evaluate, diagnose, treat, and provide consultation to patients of all ages with a wide variety of illness, diseases, injuries, mental health conditions and functional disorders of circulatory, respiratory, endocrine, metabolic, musculoskeletal, hematopoietic, gastroenteric, integumentary, nervous, female reproductive, and genitourinary systems.
• Provide pre-operative care of surgical patients.
• Provide post-operative medical care of surgical patients.
• Address return to work issues.

Benefits

• Compensation floor of $350,000 for the first two years of the employment contract.
• Potential to exceed compensation floor from personally performed wRVUs.
• $100,000 retention incentive to be paid if you remain a 1.0 FTE for 3 years (subject to a contractual agreement).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree