Physician Jobs

How physician recruiting works when a firm is involved

Most of the physician jobs on this page never appear on a job board. A hospital, health system, medical group, or community health center hires MedStaff Nationwide to fill a search, and our recruiters present the role directly to physicians who fit it. That means the openings here are current, the employer is already committed to hiring, and the details a job board leaves out, such as call, panel, and compensation structure, are things your recruiter can answer before you apply.

You work with one recruiter from first call to signed offer. The recruiter is paid by the employer, so there is never a fee to you, and nothing about you is sent to an employer until you say so.

What to ask before you interview

The questions that decide whether a physician job is right are rarely in the posting. Ask them first:

• —Call: frequency, whether it is in-house or phone, and how it is compensated.
• —Volume: patients per day for outpatient roles, census and admissions for inpatient roles.
• —Compensation model: straight salary, production with a guarantee period, or a hybrid, and what the wRVU rate and threshold are.
• —Support: APP supervision expectations, scribes, MA staffing, and EHR.
• —Why the position is open, and how long it has been open.
• —Partnership track, buy-in, and ancillary income for group practices.

Licensing and credentialing timelines

The gap between accepting an offer and seeing your first patient is almost always licensing and credentialing, not the employer. A new state medical license can take a few weeks under a compact pathway or several months in a slow state. Hospital privileging commonly runs 60 to 120 days, and payer enrollment adds more. Your recruiter starts the license application the day you accept and manages the credentialing file with you so nothing waits on a missing document.

How to read the compensation on a posting

A posted range is what the employer attached to the search, shown as the low and high across all openings on the page. It is a starting point, not the offer. Base salary gets the conversation started; the second tier of the package, sign-on, loan repayment where the site qualifies, relocation, tail coverage, CME, and PTO, is where offers separate. Our Offer Report publishes what physicians were actually offered this year, aggregated from real offers.