Community Health Center / FQHC Internal Medicine: Outpatient Only Job in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
This outpatient internal medicine position in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is offered as a Community Health Center/FQHC arrangement, one of several practice structures available for this role. In this setting, you would serve patients in a federally supported safety-net practice, typically as an employed physician — a structure that suits physicians drawn to community-focused medicine along with the practical stability of employed practice.
The role is structured as a permanent, employed position, with financial arrangements that may include an income guarantee, straight employment, or an employment agreement with a production bonus, depending on the contract selected. The financial offering for this listing is stated as $175,000–$199,999. There is no patient call rotation and no emergency department call associated with this position.
Because this opportunity is also listed under other practice structures — including solo-independent, group, hospital-employed, academic, virtual, and part-time arrangements, among others — you may wish to discuss which structure best fits your goals before proceeding.
- Position Type: Permanent
- Recruited Specialty: Internal Medicine: 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, Academic, Military/VA, Community Health Center/FQHC, Contract, Part-Time, Admin/Medical Director, Virtual, Non-Clinical Case Management
- Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
- Expected Patient Call Coverage: No call
- Expected ER Call Coverage: No call
Company Description
Company Type : Medical Consulting Firm
Specialty : Any licensed Physician preferably in Family Practice, Internal Medicine
Position Status: Flexible / Traveling 22 - 28 weeks a calendar year
Salary : 175k-180k base annual salary plus FULL benefits
Bonuses:
- $200 for each provider trained (3 rounds= 1 provider trained)
- “Out of town” bonus of $1000 per week; requires at least 1 night of hotel stay
- $1,000 if physician trainer participates in a presentation and client signs a contract
Job Description
Physician Trainer will be responsible for conducting E&M coding training to providers (physicians, nurse practitioners, other medical providers). Coding is conducted to cover office visits.
- Each session lasts approximately 90 minutes.
- Usually a minimum of 4 provider in each session.
- Will conduct between 3 to 5 sessions per day.
- 30 days after Initial training, Physician Trainer will conduct a follow-up review of charts. At least 3 charts per provider will be reviewed.
- 60 days after initial training the Physician Trainer will conduct Review #2 which is a 2nd chart review to reinforce training
Qualifications
- Required to be a physician who is licensed and has license in good standing. Does not have to be practicing.
- Incumbent must be able to be flexible when it comes to when to train and for traveling purposes. Incumbent would expect to travel between 25 – 35 weeks in a calendar year.
- Medical experience working in Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics is desired.
- Should be an experienced physician. Suitable candidate would be a current physician who wants to leave an existing practice, retired from a practice or is considering retirement from practicing.
- May be required to attend a presentation with sales staff to follow-up or potentially close a potential training opportunity.
Skill Set:
- Empathetic
- Articulate - Good presence and easy to get along with
- Good story teller – Knows how to capture an audience. Able to articulate past experiences into an interesting story.
- Good organizational skill sets
- Time Management skills
- Always willing to learn
- Able to manage through conflict and teach others how to manage through conflict
- A relationship builder.
- Has excellent interpersonal skills. Someone who can get along with anyone.
Additional Information
Before being hired the candidate will be asked to sit in on a training program and observe.
Will go through a minimum 3 month on-boarding process before conducting first training session.
- Presentations as though conducting a training session.
- Work with each trainer and observe training and reviews.
- One to two sessions with current trainers critiquing.
- Conduct mock training sessions.
- Structure of Financial Support: Income Guarantee, Straight Employment, Employment Agreement with production bonus, Contract
- Financial Offering: $175,000 - $199,999
- Relocation Allowance: No
- Signing Bonus: No
- Stipends: No
- Student Loan Assistance: No
- Practice State: Florida
- Practice City: Fort Lauderdale
- 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, Board Ineligible
- Work Status Requirements: US Citizen, Green Card
- Preferred Experience Level: Experienced, Very Experienced
- Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes
- Agency: MASC Medical