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San Jose, California

Physician, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (San Jose, CA)

Physical Medicine & RehabilitationFull-Time

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Job Description

Opportunity Information

Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group is seeking a full-time, board-certified, or board-eligible Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician.

Position Details

  • Fully established interventional spine practice with extensive internal referral network
  • State-of-the-art outpatient medical center with collaborative ancillary support
  • Full-time is 35 patient-contact hours per week
  • Sutter Health-affiliated ambulatory surgery center conveniently located on campus

Qualifications

  • Board-certified or board-eligible in PM&R
  • Fellowship in Interventional Spine or Pain Management preferred
  • CA medical license

Join Us and Enjoy

  • Guaranteed salary for two years with production bonus
  • Shareholder-eligible after two years
  • Shareholders enjoy very competitive, production-based income
  • Schedule flexibility and sabbaticals for work-life balance
  • Relocation allowance
  • Generous benefits package
  • Retirement benefits: 401k, defined pension cash-balance and HSA plans
  • Eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)

Organization Details

We are one of the largest multi-specialty medical groups in the country, made up of over 1,700 clinicians in 40+ specialties, in practices throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Our organization is nationally recognized for our excellence with multiple awards for quality of care, innovation, and leadership.

Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group is affiliated with Palo Alto Medical Foundation of Sutter Health, a national not-for-profit health care system, providing operational and administrative support, including the latest technology, allowing physicians to focus on delivering exceptional patient care.

Community Information

San José offers the energy and opportunity of Silicon Valley with the diversity, cultural richness, and everyday conveniences of a major metropolitan city.

As the largest city in the Bay Area and home to nearly one million residents, San José features distinctive neighborhoods, an internationally influenced dining scene, year-round outdoor recreation, and easy access to destinations throughout the Peninsula, Santa Cruz Mountains, and greater Bay Area.

Residents enjoy popular attractions and gathering places such as the upscale outdoor Santana Row, the vibrant and bustline San Pedro Square Dining Market, the SAP Center, The Tech Interactive Museum and the San José Museum of Art.

Equal Opportunity Statement

It is the policy of Sutter Health and its partners to provide equal employment for all qualified individuals; to prohibit discrimination in employment because of basis of race, color, creed, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, registered domestic partner status, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, national origin (including possession of a driver's license issued to individuals who did not present proof of authorized presence in the U.S.), age, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military or protected veteran status, political affiliation, pregnancy or perceived pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition, genetic information or any other characteristic made unlawful by local, state or federal law, ordinance or regulation.

We promote the full realization of equal employment opportunities through a positive continuing program within each medical group, company, hospital, department, and service area. Equal employment opportunities apply to every aspect of Sutter's employment policies and practices.

Key Responsibilities

The physician will manage a fully established interventional spine practice within a state-of-the-art outpatient medical center. They will provide high-quality patient care while collaborating with an extensive internal referral network and ancillary support staff.

Qualifications

Experience
5+ years of experience

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Clinical leadership

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation — Physician Career Context

Of the 30 active Physician listings this role was benchmarked against, 3% are remote, 73% have no call, 53% require no weekends.

Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 7.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

For production-based offers, this specialty runs a typical 5,000 wRVUs per year (derived from CMS CPT-frequency data), and WeekdayDoc listings compensate a median of about $50 per wRVU — implying roughly $250k in production-based pay. For reference, the 2026 CMS Medicare conversion factor is $33.40 per RVU.

Top Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Jobs

14 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution12 jobs · 8 employers

2
<$350k
7
$350k
3
$375k+

Annual compensation range

Work-Life Balance Distribution14 jobs · 8 employers

0
1-2
0
3-4
1
5-6
11
7-8
2
9-10

Higher = better work-life balance

#1

Medical Director / Physician Aiken SC

Healthcare Recruitment Counselors · Aiken, South Carolina

$400k
#2

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (PM&R) Physician

EPIC Health System · Southfield, Michigan

$250k-$380k
#3

Outpatient PM&R Physician / Physiatrist - Ocala, FL

$275k-$375k
#4

Physical Medicine and Rehab Physician - Willmar, MN

$200k-$350k
+ 12 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 203 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in San Jose

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$1.30M
Typical market rent
$3,563/mo
Residents’ average commute
27 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
110.4
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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Benefits & Perks

Guaranteed salary for two years with production bonus
Shareholder-eligible after two years
Schedule flexibility
Sabbaticals for work-life balance
Relocation allowance
Generous benefits package
401k
Defined pension cash-balance