Physician Assistant - Primary Care
Listed compensation
$127.5K–$161.8K
The week · per this posting · Monday – FridayWeekdays only
Ask the employer about the work setting, call expectations and time off.
Job Description
Provide high quality nursing and medical services to patients and their families, emphasizing health promotion and disease prevention, as well as the diagnosis and management of acute and chronic diseases.
Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers and one another.
In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done. The core Success Factors include:
Instill Trust and Value Differences
Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate
Responsibilities
Evaluates sick, urgent care, transitional care and primary care patients Performs annual physical exams as needed Educates patients on maintaining proper health Evaluates, makes recommendations, co-manages and treats patients' medical needs Participates in an interdisciplinary team providing care and coordination of our patients, ensuring the highest level of care
Minimum Qualifications
Pay Range
$127,504.00-$161,782.40
EEO Statement
Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.
Location
CM-Pawtucket-Hillside Family Medicine -727 East Avenue - 727 East Avenue Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02860
Work Type
M-F 8:00am-5:00pm
Work Shift
Day
Daily Hours
8 hours
Driving Required
No
Requirements
The role requires the ability to evaluate sick, urgent, and primary care patients while performing annual physical exams. Candidates must demonstrate core values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence in a clinical setting.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Physician Assistant - Primary Care at Brown Medicine a 8.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 5% in Primary Care (PA) — ranked against 428 active Primary Care (PA) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.
Primary Care — Physician Assistant Career Context
Of the 50 active Primary Care listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 72% have no call, 92% require no weekends.
Primary Care pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Rhode Island is 102.3 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$145k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $141k in an average-cost state. 63.1% of Rhode Island clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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