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Finding a hospitalist position in today’s marketplace
can be like navigating through a minefield. Hospital medicine
is the fastest-growing medical specialty in the US. Today
there are approximately 20,000 hospitalist physicians nationwide.
This number is expected to exceed 30,000 by the end of the decade.
The demand for qualified hospitalists has never
been higher. The robust expansion of the hospitalist specialty
has spawned the growth of many new hospitalist companies
offering a variety of hospitalist practice models and
schedule options. That makes it even more challenging for
physicians to make well-informed and important career
decisions.
Growth of Hospital Medicine (source SHM)
PrimeDoc hospitalists have enjoyed a consistent and proven
private-practice model since the opening of our first
practice in 1997. In PrimeDoc private practices, physicians are
included in the decision-making and also play active roles in
charting the development and direction of their individual practices.
PrimeDoc is one of the most established
and experienced hospitalist companies in the United States.
Our physician leadership has more than 30 years of clinical,
hands-on, and executive-level hospital leadership experience.
We are seeking career-minded, board-certified/eligible primary care physicians with an
emphasis on inpatient care to join established or developing hospitalist
programs.
Top 10 Reasons Why a Career With PrimeDoc May Be Ideal for You
Employment as a hospitalist with PrimeDoc has many benefits:
- A variety of attractive locations.
Many PrimeDoc locations are in, or within, an easy drive
of the fastest growing areas in the country - places that offer a high quality of living.
- A physician-built company with a physician owned
and managed culture. Physicians manage physicians at PrimeDoc locations. Our professional
physician employees enjoy the advantages of a private-practice
setting while still having the dedicated support of
an experienced management office for all business-related
functions.
- Experience and stability. Founded in 1997, PrimeDoc has established and managed
hospitalist programs for more than a decade. Our contracts are physician managed, and our physician leaders
are experienced in clinical internal medicine and in all areas of hospital operations. Individual hospitalist
programs are developed and managed by experienced physician-executives and staffed with a full-time, on-site
Clinical Medical Director. All practice management functions and back-office business functions are
centralized and carried out through PrimeDoc Management Services, Inc. All PrimeDoc hospitalist practices
are also subsidized with guaranteed stipends through our hospitalist services contracts.
- A democratic system. All decisions are made in the best interest of our physicians by our
physician leaders and Clinical Directors. Each group is autonomous and functions as a freestanding private
medical practice with the freedom and flexibility to make decisions that are best suited for the individual
practice.
- Exciting work environments. With approximately 100
physicians, PrimeDoc is large enough to be a recognized leader
in the hospitalist movement, yet small enough to understand
the needs of our individual physicians and practices.
We pride ourselves on creating a professional,
corporate, and yet personal, environment.
PrimeDoc believes
in controlled growth. We truly value - and our
model rewards - the contributions made by each
physician. PrimeDoc physicians are well-supported with
dedicated management and on-site administrative and
clinical support. In addition, physicians utilize state-of-the-art
charge capture technology. Typical physician responsibilities
include managing adult inpatients in hospitals from admission
through the phases of acute illness to discharge.
- Growth opportunities. PrimeDoc is continuously evaluating and considering new hospital
client locations. Our expansion will create additional clinical and leadership positions internally in our
new regions.
- Excellent earnings potential.
According to The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) 2007-2008 Survey, hospitalists in our region are
compensated higher than in any other region in the U.S. PrimeDoc hospitalists enjoy a compensation formula
that is a combination of a fixed base and a very aggressive production incentive,
with low overhead.
- Pre-tax benefits programs. Physicians
are officially employees of PrimeDoc; however, our financial
policies have been designed to allow our physicians
many of the freedoms of independent contractors. The
company's programs have been structured within
our corporate model to provide PrimeDoc professional
employees with the greatest tax savings. Our programs
include:
- Flexible group benefit plans for health insurance
- Dependent-care assistance
- Business expense reimbursements
- Blocked scheduling for work-life balance. Hospitalists
are mobile physicians and work in fast-paced
environments. Our schedules are designed to offer
our physicians a comfortable balance between a rewarding
career as a hospitalist and an excellent quality of
life. Predictable schedules allow our physicians to
better plan their lives and family time. PrimeDoc
hospitalists are not on-call, not in-house, and this also
promotes more flexibility in their work schedules.
Annualized, each PrimeDoc hospitalist physician is
off for 20 weeks per year with the five-physician
rotation. While many programs implement a 7-on, 7-off rotation, each PrimeDoc
practice has the flexibility and freedom to modify their schedules to fit the needs of their
practice and client hospital facility. The focus is creating a schedule that
is predictable and allows for a good work-life balance.
- Flexible staffing with multiple employment options.
We are committed to offering a flexible staffing model. Not every physician has a desire to work full time.
That's why at PrimeDoc we have reengineered the hospitalist staffing model to offer our physicians a variety
of employment options, including Full-time, Part-time, Nocturnalist, Job-Share, PRN and
Internal PrimeDoc Locum.
More About Working With PrimeDoc
PrimeDoc's professional employees work in a private-practice model and are eligible to participate
in a variety of flexible benefits and reimbursement programs coordinated through PrimeDoc Management
Services, Inc. These include:
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Profit-sharing plans
- Group rates for health, dental, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and long-term disability insurance
- Group rates for malpractice insurance
- Flexible benefits plans for reimbursement of medical expenses, dependent-care expenses, group malpractice rates, and professional business expenses
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