Physician - Family & Preventive Medicine

Work at our Auburn location in Northern California.  No call, or weekend work with our primary care clinics, enjoy your time off working with the VA.

The Sierra Foothills Community Based Outpatient Clinic Aka Auburn CBOC is nestled in the Sierra Foothills—close to both Reno and Sacramento.  We proudly serve 4000+ veteran patients annually and consistently score as the best clinic in the Northern California Health Care System. We provide primary care, mental health, and audiology services.  We are growing our rural clinic and hope to serve veterans with more services.  We are also working on creating more robust partnerships with our sub-specialists at our Mather Hospital.  We are recruiting for physicians to join our team as we have physicians who are retiring after many years of service.  

Seeking full-time, Board Prepared/Certified Family, or Internal Medicine physicians. Eligible applicants should be able to provide comprehensive primary care, including gender-specific care (e.g. Women's Health). Our organization has earned national and international recognition as the best care delivered anywhere. Outstanding working conditions allow for a satisfying career with a high quality of life along with a competitive salary and excellent benefits, including malpractice insurance.  

Our Primary Care Physician (PCP) functions as a team provider in shared workflow with a multidisciplinary Patient-Aligned Care Team (PACT - a medical home model), or as a float or gap provider assigned to provide comprehensive, collaborative same day and continuity care to an assigned panel of Veterans as well as to patients outside the assigned panel when Veteran care indicates a need for such. Medical care is delivered in accordance with current clinical practice guidelines with attention to prevention via utilization of evidence-based clinical decision-making tools. In addition to the provision of high-quality medical care, PACT Physicians demonstrate excellence in customer service via compassionate and informed interpersonal relationships with veterans, family members and staff.

Candidates must: 1) be a US citizen 2) possess a current, full, unrestricted medical license in any state and 3) board certification in family or internal medicine. 

INCENTIVES:  Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) offers up to $200,000 over 5-years, tax-free and/or Recruitment Incentive with minimum 3-year service obligation. Recruitment/ relocation may be authorized for highly qualified candidates.  

BENEFITS: 208 hours (5.2 weeks) paid vacation (full-time physicians earn 8 hours each pay period upon employment/part-time physicians earn 1 hour of vacation leave for every 10 hours worked); 104 hours (2.6 weeks) paid sick leave (full-time physicians earn 4 hours pay period upon employment, no cap) /part-time physicians earn 1 hour of sick leave for every 20 hours worked); 11 paid Federal holidays (any time clinics are closed you get time-off with pay and does not come out of paid vacation); Competitive Salary; Annual Physician Performance Pay; Malpractice protection with tail coverage covered by the Federal government; CME- 1 week paid authorized absence to attend and after 1 year of employment $1,000 per year stipend toward CME if BC (does not come out of paid vacation/time is prorated for part-time staff); No Physician Employment Contract; no significant restriction on moonlighting 

Interested candidates may apply by emailing current CV to VA Healthcare Recruiter