Family Medicine Opening Bethel, AK
Opportunity Overview:
Position:
- Board Eligible/Certified Family Medicine
- 100% Outpatient Clinic
- No call, No weekends
- Full spectrum Family Medicine
- Village travel 1-2 times per quarter
- Alaska medical license not required to start
- Outpatient clinic has 80 patient care rooms + dedicated procedure rooms for general, GYN, and casting procedures
- Non-profit Regional Hospital with 33 beds and Level IV Trauma
Financials:
- Earn up to $400K+ your first year
- Up to $312,500 salary
- Up to $70,000 sign-on bonus
- Annual retention bonuses up to $28,000
- Up to $50,000 student loan repayment - HPSA site score 20/26
- Up to $20,000 relocation assistance paid before you start
- 30-days of free housing
- 26 days of PTO per year, 11 paid holidays, 10 days of CME
- $10,000 CME per year
Your New Community:
- Bethel, Alaska - the largest borough in Western Alaska
- Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, aka part of the Alaska Bush
- 75,000 square miles roughly the same size of South Dakota
- Accessible only by plane most of the year - two flights per day
- 1-hour flight to Anchorage: shopping, restaurants, outdoors
- Local gym includes an indoor, heated pool with a slide for kids
- 2-screen movie theater featuring the latest movies
- Amazon and Target ship here, but no more guaranteed next-day delivery
- Outdoor activities include fishing, hunting, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, ice fishing, canoeing, kayaking, and boating
- Annual 300-mile dog sled race that begins and ends in town
- No state income tax and no sales tax in Alaska
- Alaska PFD pays permanent Alaska residents a dividend each fall
- Two local grocery stores that also offer general home items
- Home to the largest commercial farm and farmer's market in rural Alaska
- Homes for sale between $300K-$700K with fully furnished options
- Transportation: take a taxi, buy a vehicle, ship a vehicle
