Internal Medicine Physician
Listed compensation
$200k-$300k
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
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Job Description
- Job Title: Internal Medicine Physician
- Location: Oakland, CA
- Employment Type: Full-time or Part-time
- Salary: $200,000 – $300,000 per year for Full-time
- Internal Medicine Physician Jobs in Oakland, CA: Your Clinical Expertise, a Better Way to Practice
You chose Internal Medicine to solve complex medical problems and care for patients.
Instead, many internists spend their days managing patients with multiple chronic conditions in rushed visits, carrying ever-growing hospitalist censuses, working 12-hour shifts and nights, and fighting prior authorizations and overflowing inboxes.
Across the country, Internal Medicine physicians are feeling the strain. Skilled Wound Care, a premier national physician group, is hiring Internal Medicine Physicians in Oakland, CA to work as wound care physicians and lead wound care initiatives in skilled nursing facilities across the area.
Maybe you’re a hospitalist ready to step away from night shifts, high patient censuses and discharge pressure. Maybe you’re an outpatient internist tired of packed clinic schedules and after-hours messages. Either way, this no-call Internal Medicine Physician job offers a high-impact career without the corporate red tape.
Why Internal Medicine Physicians in Oakland, CA Choose Wound Care
In a specialty where the work can mean long shifts, nights and nonstop admissions, we offer a refreshing alternative:
The “No-Call” Lifestyle: No nights, no weekends and no pagers. No overnight admissions or after-hours patient portal messages. This is a true Monday–Friday physician job, so your evenings and weekends belong to you and your family.
Put Your Medical Expertise to Work: Chronic wounds are closely tied to diabetes, vascular disease and other comorbidities. Your Internal Medicine training is exactly what these patients need.
Add Procedures to Your Practice: Perform surgical debridement and other bedside procedures, with full training provided.
Clinical Autonomy: Direct patient outcomes based on your clinical expertise, not a hospital committee or department hierarchy.
Smarter Documentation: Our custom software is designed to slash admin time, so you’re not stuck charting at midnight when you could be home at a reasonable hour.
See Patients Heal: Follow patients through healing and build lasting relationships, instead of discharging them and never seeing the outcome.
- Internal Medicine Physician Responsibilities
- Use the latest advancements in wound healing to change lives in communities across Oakland, CA:
- Surgical and sharp debridement and other bedside procedures
- Evaluation and treatment of chronic, non-healing and complex wounds
- Management of the underlying conditions that affect wound healing
Advanced Dressings and Specialized Wound Protocols
- Collaborative care in skilled nursing facilities and the post-acute setting, where you follow patients through healing
- Internal Medicine Physician Salary & Compensation
- Average Annual Earnings: 200,000–250,000 (no earning cap as an independent contractor)
- High Achievers: Top performers earn $300,000+ through performance bonuses
- Pay Structure: Per-patient and per-procedure pay, plus quarterly bonus programs
- Internal Medicine Physician Requirements
- Medical Degree: MD or DO from an accredited institution
- Medical License: Unrestricted/clear medical license in the state of practice (or eligibility to obtain one)
- DEA License: Or eligibility to obtain one
- Open Background: We welcome Internal Medicine physicians and hospitalists, as well as Family Medicine physicians and surgeons of all backgrounds. No previous wound care or procedural experience is required; we provide comprehensive wound care training
- Great Place to Work® Certified!
Skilled Wound Care is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for the 5th year in a row. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Skilled Wound Care. This year, 95% of employees said it’s a great place to work – 39% higher than the average U.S. company.
Apply for This Internal Medicine Physician Job in Oakland, CA
You became an internist to solve complex problems, not to chase a census. If you’re an Internal Medicine Physician or hospitalist in Oakland, CA looking for a no-call, Monday–Friday career with hands-on procedures and no earning cap, apply today.
Skilled Wound Care will ask all candidates to perform pre-employment confidential DiSC testing and appropriate relevant skills testing prior to hiring.
Skilled Wound Care, part of Skilled Physicians Group, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.
Key Responsibilities
The physician will lead wound care initiatives in skilled nursing facilities by performing surgical debridement and managing complex, chronic wounds. They will also collaborate with care teams to manage underlying conditions and follow patients through their healing process.
Requirements
Candidates must hold an MD or DO degree from an accredited institution and possess an unrestricted medical license in the state of practice. Eligibility for a DEA license is also required, and the role is open to internists, hospitalists, and family medicine physicians.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Internal Medicine Physician at Skilled Wound Care a 8.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 10% in Internal Medicine — ranked against 1,271 active Internal Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements.
Internal Medicine — Physician Career Context
Skilled Wound Care ranks #27 of 29 employers hiring contract/1099 Internist on WeekdayDoc by average advertised pay, and holds silver-tier status on the Top Employers work-life index, composite score 84/100, 64 active listings.
Of the 50 active Internal Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 42% have no call, 72% require no weekends.
Internal Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is up 7.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$250k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $226k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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