Single-Specialty Group Hospitalist: Internal Medicine Job in Albuquerque, New Mexico
This Internal Medicine hospitalist role in Albuquerque, New Mexico is offered as a single-specialty group arrangement, structured as employment by a hospital, clinic, MSO, or other entity. In this setup, you join an established practice of physicians within your own specialty, with clinical infrastructure, staffing, billing, and administration already in place. Call is typically shared across the group's physicians, and the group setting offers peer collaboration within your specialty along with shared business overhead, reducing individual administrative burden compared to solo practice.
The position is structured under an employment agreement with a production bonus, with the financial offering listed as Open. Relocation assistance and a signing bonus are included. Emergency department call follows a 1:6 or better rotation, and the patient call rotation shared within the group is also 1:6 or better.
This opportunity is set in a community of 100,000–499,999 residents. Both board-certified and board-eligible candidates are considered, as are MD and DO graduates from both American and foreign medical schools, at training, recently trained, or experienced career stages. Candidates must hold US citizenship or a green card.
- Position Type: Permanent
- Recruited Specialty: Hospitalist: Internal Medicine
- Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: Yes
- Structure of Position: Single-Specialty Group, Employed by Hospital/Clinic/MSO/Other
- Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
- Expected Patient Call Coverage: 1:6 or better
- Expected ER Call Coverage: 1:6 or better
The Lovelace Health System, a 6-hospital system serving the greater Albuquerque, New Mexico metropolitan area of over 450,000, is building a hospitalist group to service three hospitals and communities in the city and the suburbs. We are interested in Internal Medicine physicians who enjoy and may have experience working in an all inpatient setting (Hospitalists). Our hospitalists will be dedicated to working at one of the three facilities within our system, performing standard internal medicine/hospitalist procedures, with some basic critical care procedures and offering consults on a variety of cases. The schedule is 7 days on and 7 days off, equaling 182 shifts per year, and there are opportunities for part-time positions as well. The Census target is 16-18 patients per shift. The hospitalist service will have advanced practice providers, project coordinators and a practice manager to oversee day to day hospital administrative duties. The compensation model will provide TOP TIER salaries and benefits, plus lucrative bonuses based on production and quality. Day and night shifts are available. Nocturnist will be compensated at a higher level, but all positions offer very generous salaries and benefits.
- Structure of Financial Support: Employment Agreement with production bonus
- Financial Offering: Open
- Compensation Range: $310,396 - $391,615 per year
- Relocation Allowance: Yes
- Signing Bonus: Yes
- Stipends: Negotiable
- Student Loan Assistance: Negotiable
- Practice State: New Mexico
- Practice City: Albuquerque
- Community Size: 100,000 - 499,999
- 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: Currently In Training, Recently Trained, Experienced
- Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes
- Facility Type: Hospital
- Number of Hospital Beds: 263
- Number of ER Visits Per Year:
- Number of Deliveries Per Year:
- Hospital: Ardent Health Services
