MD/DO - Family Medicine Whitehall
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Job Description
Practice medicine where relationships still matter.
There is something special about practicing Family Medicine in a community where you have the opportunity to truly know your patients — caring for individuals and families over time, building trust, and seeing the difference your work makes beyond a single visit.
Join our Emplify Health by Gundersen Family Medicine team in Whitehall, Wisconsin, and become part of a community-based practice where physicians can build meaningful relationships while having the support and resources of a larger integrated health system behind them.
Your Practice Glance
Build a broad and meaningful Family Medicine practice with the support of a team designed to help you care for patients across all stages of life.
Work-life balance with flexibility to choose part-time or full-time practice
Dedicated clinical support, including MAs and RNs
Integrated support services, including an on-site social worker, diabetes education, pharmacy support, anticoagulation services, and interpreter services
Broad-scope Family Medicine, including preventive care, chronic disease management, women’s health, pediatrics, and optional OB/prenatal care
- Opportunity to perform office-based procedures based on your interests and experience
- Newly built 24-bed critical access hospital connected to the clinic, providing inpatient care, rehabilitation, specialty services, and emergency care
- Telephone-only call
- 24/7 specialty consultation through the broader Emplify Health by Gundersen network
- Air and ground ambulance support
- Flexibility to shape your practice around your clinical interests
- Outreach specialty services including Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Oncology, Otolaryngology, Podiatry
About Whitehall
For the physician who appreciates knowing the people they care for, becoming part of the community, and having room for both a meaningful career and life outside of medicine, Whitehall offers something increasingly difficult to find.
Located in scenic Trempealeau County, Whitehall has the welcoming feel of a smaller community with convenient access to some of the region’s larger cities. Nestled between La Crosse and Eau Claire, both are approximately an hour away, while the Minneapolis–St. Paul area is just over two hours from the community.
Surrounded by rolling hills, wooded landscapes, and abundant outdoor recreation, the area reflects much of what makes western Wisconsin such a beautiful place to call home. Physicians can enjoy a quieter pace of life and a close-knit community while still being within an easy drive of shopping, dining, entertainment, and regional airports.
Why Join Emplify Health by Gundersen
Comprehensive Support: Join a collaborative, patient centered health system with access to specialists, advanced practice providers, and resources designed to deliver high-quality care in a rural setting.
Flexible Work Options: Enjoy a work environment that supports both your personal and professional needs, offering options such as a four-day workweek, ensuring fulfillment and well-being.
Mission Driven Culture: At Gundersen, together we inspire your best life through relentlessly caring, learning, and innovating. We are dedicated to contributing to a future of healthy people and thriving communities, making a meaningful difference in the lives of those we serve. Be part of a system committed to improving the health in rural communities while providing exceptional care.
Compensation that Reflects Your Impact: At Gundersen, we recognize that great physicians, whether experienced or new, make a real difference. Our salary structure is designed to reflect your skills, potential, and commitment to exceptional patient care, recognizing the value you bring to our team and the community.
Outstanding Benefits: Including loan forgiveness, relocation assistance, a competitive 401K match, personal liability insurance, and more, all designed to support your well-being and professional growth.
We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future.
Must have completed an accredited graduate medical training program and be board certified or eligible within the area of medicine stated. In addition, must have or be able to obtain a license to practice in our multi-state region with no restrictions or limitations.
Medical staff in our system will supervise advanced practice clinicians. Medical staff may need to provide outreach service as part of their role in the system. Teaching students, residents, fellows or clinical staff is cornerstone to our Medical Education philosophy and an expectation of all medical staff.
Primary Recruiter
Shari Kjos
Recruiter Email Address
SKKjos@emplifyhealth.org
We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Key Responsibilities
Provide broad-scope family medicine services including preventive care, chronic disease management, and inpatient care at a critical access hospital. Supervise advanced practice clinicians and participate in the education of students, residents, and fellows.
Requirements
Must have completed an accredited graduate medical training program and be board certified or eligible. Must possess or be able to obtain a valid, unrestricted medical license for the region.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates MD/DO - Family Medicine Whitehall at Gundersen Health System a 6.9 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Family Medicine — ranked against 2,385 active Family Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.
Family Medicine — Physician Career Context
In Wisconsin, the Family Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$307k (20 salary observations; 147 listings), vs ~$262k nationally (1,188 salary observations; 5,702 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 50 active Family Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 14% are remote, 48% have no call, 58% require no weekends.
Family Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is up 7.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Wisconsin is 94.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.7% of Wisconsin clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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