CONFIDENTIAL REQUISITION - SYSTEM MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Compensation
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Job Description
We are seeking a board-certified emergency medicine physician to serve as a system medical director, providing strategic and operational leadership across multiple emergency medicine and hospital medicine programs.
In this role, you will partner with facility medical directors, hospital leadership, recruiters, and operational teams to drive physician engagement, patient safety, quality improvement, staffing excellence, and client satisfaction. Responsibilities include physician leadership development, performance management, recruitment and retention oversight, operational planning, and implementation of patient safety initiatives.
Qualifications
- MD/DO with board certification in EM
- Proven physician leadership experience
- Strong operational, quality, and team-building skills
- Experience working with hospital administration and multidisciplinary teams
This is primarily a leadership position with the opportunity to work modest clinical shifts under a separate clinical agreement.
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Job Benefits
- Employed position with comprehensive benefit package
- Leadership stipend
- Professional reimbursement allowance
- Paid professional liability insurance with tail guarantee
- No billing or coding responsibilities
- Enrollment in TeamHealth's Patient Safety Organization
- Access to TeamHealth's wellness program, professional development tools and nation-wide network of physicians
- 1099 or W-2 compensation for clinical shifts (site specific)
Key Responsibilities
The System Medical Director provides strategic and operational leadership across emergency and hospital medicine programs. Responsibilities include driving physician engagement, quality improvement, performance management, and the implementation of patient safety initiatives.
Qualifications
- Education
- Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
- Experience
- 10+ years of experience
Key Skills
Emergency Medicine — Physician Career Context
Of the 50 active Emergency Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 88% have no call, 56% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Tennessee is 91.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.6% of Tennessee clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Location & Logistics
Tennessee has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.
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Living in Knoxville
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $358k
- Typical market rent
- $1,712/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 20 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 92.6
- State income tax
- None
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Knoxville, TN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.