Primary Care Physician
Compensation
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Job Description
City/State
Norfolk, VA
Work Shift
- Multiple shifts available
- Provider Specialty
- Primary Care
Overview
Sentara Medical Group is hiring several full time positions throughout Virginia and North Carolina. Sentara Internal Medicine and Family Medicine locations located in areas from Halifax, to Virginia Beach, to Northern Virginia and Charlottesville are accepting applications for 2027 and 2028 start dates.
Position Highlights
- 40 hours per week Monday-Friday 8am-5pm (36 patient-facing hours and 4 hours of admin)
- Average number of patients per week 80-90
- In a large call group with infrequent call nights.
- Call is minimal, phone only and triaged first 24/7 by an RN
No Hospital Rounds Required
Provide primary care for patients in the panel. Age restrictions negotiable.
Benefit Highlights
- Permanent Guaranteed Base Salary
- Annual Quality Performance Incentive
- Productivity Bonus opportunity
- Sign on Bonus
- Starting Bonus
- Residency Stipend option
- Flexible Schedules
- Loan Repayment eligible (Sentara is a 501(c)3 non-profit)
- Retirement Package with Matching Contribution
- 3% Additional Company Contribution to Retirement Plan
- Comprehensive Benefits Package including Health, Vision, Dental, Disability and more
- Physician Time Off
- Malpractice and Tail coverage
- CME expense reimbursement
- Fully integrated EMR (Epic)
- PSLF eligible, Non-Profit
DAX Medical Scribe
Sentara Health is an award-winning, nationally recognized, innovative nonprofit healthcare system. Our physician-led organization is a top-tier, high-performing multi-specialty group that brings together over 2,000 providers to deliver quality and compassionate care to our communities..
Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
- Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
- Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
- Emergency Backup Care
- Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
- Life Insurance
- 401k/403B with Employer Match
- Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
- Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
- Pet Insurance
- Legal Resources Plan
- Colleagues may have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met
Providers at Sentara are eligible for special benefits such as Annual CME Allowance and 100% malpractice and tail coverage.
Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
- In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.
- For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs providers in the following states:
- North Carolina, Nevada, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Key Responsibilities
Provide comprehensive primary care for patients within an assigned panel. Manage patient care with minimal call requirements and no hospital rounds.
Requirements
Candidates must be qualified physicians capable of managing a primary care patient panel. The role requires a commitment to a full-time schedule with specific patient-facing and administrative hours.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Primary Care — Physician Career Context
Of the 50 active Primary Care listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 58% have no call, 60% require no weekends.
Sentara Health ranks #4 of 26 employers hiring Primary Care on WeekdayDoc by average advertised pay.
Primary Care pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 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.
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Primary Care Physician at Sentara Health a 8.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 10% in Primary Care — ranked against 1,333 active Primary Care listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements.
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- No call
- No weekends
Living in Norfolk
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $298k
- Typical market rent
- $1,757/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 23 min
- State income tax
- Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.