General Surgeon
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Salary: $200K–$300K
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Job Description
- Job Title: General Surgeon
- Location: Albuquerque, NM
- Employment Type: Full-time or Part-time
- Salary: $200,000 – $300,000 per year for Full-time
- General Surgeon Jobs in Albuquerque, NM: Same Surgical Skills, a Better Way to Practice
You trained for years to become a General Surgeon. But across the country, surgeon shortages mean longer hours, heavier call and less time for life outside medicine. Top-tier General Surgeons shouldn’t have to give up their health, families and weekends for their careers.
Skilled Wound Care, a premier national physician group, is hiring General Surgeons in Albuquerque, NM to work as wound care physicians and lead wound care initiatives in skilled nursing facilities across the area.
Maybe you’re a General Surgeon ready to step away from endless call rotations, OR block-time battles and productivity targets at large health systems. Maybe you want clinical autonomy outside the high-pressure hospital environment. Either way, this no-call General Surgeon job offers a high-impact surgical career without the corporate red tape.
Why General Surgeons in Albuquerque, NM Choose Wound Care
In a specialty where being on call can mean missed dinners, cancelled vacations and 2 a. m. emergency cases, we offer a refreshing alternative:
The “No-Call” Lifestyle: No nights, no weekends and no pagers. No 2 a. m. emergency cases. This is a true Monday–Friday surgeon job, so your evenings and weekends belong to you and your family.
Keep Your Surgical Skills: Surgical debridement and bedside procedures stay part of your daily practice.
A Sustainable Surgical Career: Bedside procedures are far less physically demanding than long OR cases, so the strain on your back, neck and shoulders goes down and you can keep practicing for years to come.
Clinical Autonomy: Direct patient outcomes based on your surgical 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.
- General Surgeon Responsibilities
- Use the latest advancements in wound healing to change lives in communities across Albuquerque, NM:
- Surgical and sharp debridement and other bedside procedures
- Evaluation and treatment of chronic, non-healing and complex wounds
Advanced Dressings and Specialized Wound Protocols
- Collaborative care in skilled nursing facilities and the post-acute setting, where you follow patients through healing
- General Surgeon 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
- General Surgeon 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 General Surgeons and surgeons of all backgrounds, as well as Family Medicine and Internal Medicine physicians. No previous wound care 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 4th 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 General Surgeon Job in Albuquerque, NM
You trained to be a surgeon, not to be on call forever. If you’re a General Surgeon in Albuquerque, NM looking for a no-call, Monday–Friday surgical career with 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
Perform surgical procedures and provide comprehensive patient care in a clinical setting. Manage pre-operative and post-operative patient assessments to ensure optimal health outcomes.
Requirements
Requires a medical degree and board certification in general surgery. Must possess a valid medical license to practice in the state of New Mexico.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 10+ years of experience
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates General Surgeon at Skilled Wound Care a 7.3 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 10% in Surgery — ranked against 1,016 active Surgery listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements, no night shifts.
Surgery — Physician Career Context
Skilled Wound Care holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 84/100, 126 active listings.
Of the 37 active Physician listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 92% have no call, 89% require no weekends.
Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
The cost-of-living index for New Mexico is 92.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$250k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $271k in an average-cost state. 61.4% of New Mexico clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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