Unique Medical Director/Family Medicine role in the WI northwoods!

Join this independent critical access hospital and enjoy a reward career as our new Medical Director and Family Medicine physician! We are looking for candidates interested in leadership, but want to emphasize that this is a quite relaxed Medical Director position. Administrative duties would be very minimal. Great opportunity for leadership, and the ability to be a community leader in our small town! 

Your practice will include outpatient and inpatient work, and you will be included in our ER call. We are seeking a Family Medicine physician who likes a traditional practice and who wants to do a little bit of everything. OB is not an option at this facility.

Job details

-outpatient, inpatient, and inclusion in ER call. 

-two other physicians in practice, as well as 4 APPs. 

-clinic seems 15-18 patients per day. ER sees 1500 patients per year. Call is 1:5-1:6, roughly. For call, you are not forced to stay onsite. 

-we offer flexibility in your practice, your working hours, and your appointment times. 

-we are a 25 bed critical access hospital in Shell Lake, WI. 

-in a Health Professions Shortage Area (HPSA), so you would qualify for many loan forgiveness programs. 

Shell Lake

Shell Lake is a small, rural community in northwest Wisconsin. If you love the northwoods, the great outdoors, and experiencing all 4 seasons, this is the location for you! Warm and welcoming, close knit community. Area has tons of camping, hiking, breweries, distilleries, and more. Strong schools that also offer a small, hands on environment. You are 1.5 hours to Duluth/Superior, 1 hour and 16 minutes to Eau Claire, and 2 hours to the Twin Cities and their international airport. 

The Provider Placement Program for Wisconsin is aware of several positions in the Madison and southern Wisconsin areas. These positions are both with large multi-specialty healthcare systems and smaller independent systems. These positions are in both larger cities as well as smaller rural towns. To receive detailed information on these and all other general internal medicine positions/places statewide, please call or write Laura Ketterhagen (contact info on home page). The Provider Placement Program for Wisconsin is a non-profit physician recruitment program started in 1979 and located at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health (Office of Rural Health) in Madison.