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Part-Time Child Protection Team Pediatrician / Family Medicine Physician / Advanced Practice Nurse, Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center

Family MedicinePart-Time

Listed compensation

$90k-$151k

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Employment & setting
Part-Time
Call expectations
Not specified
Weekends
Not specified
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Job Description

The Department of Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) seek a Pediatrician, Family Medicine Physician, or Advanced Practice Nurse to join the BMC Child Protection Team. The Child Protection Team is a multidisciplinary team that covers all patients at BMC and provides consultation for BMC Health Systems hospitals and affiliated community health centers.

The position involves the full scope of child maltreatment, including evaluation of patients in the emergency department, inpatient, and outpatient settings at Boston Medical Center as well as evaluation of patients in Foster Care Clinic and Child Protection Team outpatient clinic. Phone consultation provided to members of the multidisciplinary team throughout the BMC Health System and affiliated health centers. Teaching responsibilities include medical students, residents, and other learners in other programs at Boston Medical Center.

Key Responsibilities

The role involves providing clinical evaluations for child maltreatment across emergency, inpatient, and outpatient settings at Boston Medical Center. Additionally, the physician or nurse will provide consultations for the health system and participate in teaching medical students and residents.

Requirements

Candidates must be BC/BE in Pediatrics or Family Medicine, or be a highly qualified Advanced Practice Nurse with a valid Massachusetts medical license. Expertise in serving families impacted by trauma and a commitment to justice-informed care are required.

Qualifications

Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Child abuse pediatricsClinical evaluationTrauma-informed careMultidisciplinary collaborationPatient advocacyMedical teachingFoster care supportSystems-based change

Family Medicine — Physician Career Context

In Massachusetts, the Family Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$270k (20 salary observations; 28 listings), vs ~$269k nationally (891 salary observations; 1,913 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, 6% are remote, 56% have no call, 64% require no weekends.

Family Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is up 17.6% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Massachusetts is 105.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$120k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $114k in an average-cost state. 63.2% of Massachusetts clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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Work-life snapshot

3.0/ 10
Listing-based score

Living in Boston

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$813k
Typical market rent
$3,338/mo
Residents’ average commute
30 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
108.3
State income tax
Up to 5%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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