Community Health Center / FQHC Family Practice: Outpatient Only Job in Birmingham, Alabama
This Family Practice: Outpatient Only position in Birmingham, Alabama is offered, among other arrangements, as a Community Health Center/FQHC role. In this setting, you would practice in a federally supported safety-net environment as an employed physician, a structure suited to physicians drawn to community-focused medicine along with the practical stability of employment.
The listing also identifies this opportunity as available under several other structures — solo-independent, single-specialty group, multi-specialty group, and hospital/clinic/MSO employment — so the FQHC arrangement described here represents one of the options under which this role may be structured. The financial offering is listed as Open, with employment terms that may include an income guarantee, straight employment, or an agreement with production bonus, depending on how the arrangement is finalized.
Loan assistance is available with this position, and relocation assistance and a signing bonus are also offered. There is no patient call and no emergency department call associated with this role.
- Position Type: Permanent
- Recruited Specialty: Family Practice: Outpatient Only
- Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: No
- Structure of Position: Solo-Independent, Single-Specialty Group, Multi-Specialty Group, Employed by Hospital/Clinic/MSO/Other, Community Health Center/FQHC
- Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
- Expected Patient Call Coverage: No call
- Expected ER Call Coverage: No call
Patient Census: physicians treat 18-20 patients per day
Schedule: 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. (no evenings or weekends)
Setting: outpatient clinic/private practice
Rounding: N/A
Call: telephone call only
EMR: user-friendly
Pay: higher than the national average for PCPs
Relocation Assistance or Reimbursement: yes
Sign-On Bonus: yes
CME Reimbursement: yes
Paid Time Off (PTO): yes – three (3) weeks
Benefits Package: yes – paid holidays, health insurance, 401(k) plan with employer match, etc.
New Grads (Fresh Out of Residency): yes
Selma is 50 minutes/50 miles from Montgomery, AL. Lowndesboro is between Selma (30 minutes away) and Montgomery (25 minutes away), making it an ideal location to reside for someone looking to serve a health professional shortage area while still having quick access to a metropolitan area.
- Structure of Financial Support: Income Guarantee, Straight Employment, Employment Agreement with production bonus, Contract
- Financial Offering: Open
- Compensation Range: $281,597 - $420,560 per year
- Relocation Allowance: Yes
- Signing Bonus: Yes
- Stipends: No
- Student Loan Assistance: Yes
- Practice State: Alabama
- Practice City: Birmingham
- Community Size: Less than 10,000, 10,000 - 24,999, 25,000 - 49,999, 50,000 - 99,999, 100,000 - 499,999, 500,000+
- Community Details: Registered Candidates Only
- Location of Medical Training: American Medical Graduate (AMG), Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG)
- Medical Training Type: Allopathic (MD), Osteopathic (DO)
- Board Certification: Board Certified, Board Eligible
- Work Status Requirements: US Citizen, Green Card
- Preferred Experience Level: Recently Trained, Experienced, Very Experienced
- Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes
- Agency: MASC Medical
