PHYSICIAN OPPORTUNITY: Family Practice Medicine

bExceptional, Well Established Family Practice needs Energetic, Self Motivated FM Physician to join their Busy, Financially Successful Practice. Plans to add new Urgent Care Clinic!b 5 member, well established Family Practice group who has long standing tradition in Dothan, Alabama is seeking a physician to join them. 1:5 weekly call rotation with equal weekend call rotation. Clinic hours are 7:30 a.m. - 7:30 pm Monday Friday and 7:30 a.m. 5 pm on weekends. Physicians treat patients by appointment and walk in at their two outpatient clinics and also treat patients at SAMC, a 420 bed tertiary state of the art hospital and three private nursing homes. Practice is also expanding this summer to include an urgent care clinic with potential out-patient schedule for practitioner interested in outpatient only. Incentives include 2 year income guarantee with future earning potential markedly above the 75th percentile. There is the opportunity for full partnership after 2nd year with group. Other benefits include malpractice, health and dental insurance. Candidate will also receive CME, paid vacation and paid sick days. Educational Loan repayment is available for the qualified candidate. bCOMMUNITY:b Nestled in the SE corner of Alabama and in close proximity to Florida and Georgia, Dothan, AL has a referral area of 624,000 and serves as a shoppingretail hub. The public school system is excellent and operated by the city. There are several academic and private schools available also. Economically rated #1 in retail sales per capita in Alabama, it offers excellent shopping opportunities, i.e., Barnes and Nobles, Target, Dillards, etc. and numerous recognized restaurants (Olive Garden, Longhorns, Outback, etc.) Dothan has the lowest cost of living in AL and is ranked 8th lowest nationally. bDothan was recognized by Business Week as Alabamas 2010 Best Places to Raise Your Kidsb with its family-oriented quality of life with outdoor recreational areas including a Robert Trent Jones golf course, nearby Lake Eufaula and Lake Seminole. Dothan is Home of the National Peanut Festival and has a botanical gardens and opera house. biBeautiful white sandy Gulf beaches are a little over an hour away at Panama City, FL (73 miles) and Destin (83 miles).ib bFACILITY:b Southeast Alabama Medical Center, a 420 bed facility established in 1957, is one of the largest not-for- profit tertiary referral centers in Alabama. Owned and operated by the Houston County Healthcare Authority, it serves over 785,000 in a 75 mile radius around Dothan, Houston County and its surrounding tri-state (AL- FL- GA) area. In addition to offering clinical services ranging from comprehensive rehabilitation to nutritional counseling, it also offers 20 ORs with state of the art technology --2 hybrid vascular ORs ; Level 2 trauma center with 11 EM residency trained EM physicians and volumes approaching 58,000; 5 interventional catheterization (and EP laboratory) labs; comprehensive cancer center; diabetes treatment center; outpatient tower with streamlined services; pain management center staffed by fellowship trained anesthesiologists; neurodiagnostics center with 6 sleep rooms. Comprehensive radiology services including 2 interventional labs (cardiology and vascular) and 2 short-bore MRIs, 3 CT scanners (including 64 row CT) and Pet Scanner; 32 ICU beds; Womens Imaging Center; Family Birth Center with 27 LDRPS and 2 dedicated c-section rooms; 24 hr nurse call center; dedicated inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services; wound carehyperbarics center; and a screening vehicle to assist with the early identification of DM, vascular conditions and prostate cancer. Southeast Alabama Medical Center is developing its own private college of osteopathic medicine on the SAMC campus. Construction on the 120,000-square-foot facility could begin in January 2011. The hospital is planning a $15 million operating budget for the college. The first class of 150 students is expected to enroll in the fall of 2012.