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Trillium Health
Rochester, New York

Staff Physician - Internal Medicine

Internal MedicineIncludes callFull-Time

Listed compensation

$235K - $268K

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

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Posted 4mo ago

Job Description

Job Title: Staff Physician (Adults Only)

Department: Clinic

Position Type: Full-Time

FLSA: Exempt

Job Summary

Join us and be part of a mission-driven team that prioritizes innovation, collaboration, and continuous development. The Staff Physician will provide high-quality, comprehensive primary care services to adult patients, ensuring access to essential healthcare for all populations.

This role is critical to fulfilling the organization’s mission of delivering patient-centered, culturally competent care regardless of ability to pay.

The Staff Physician diagnoses and treats acute and chronic conditions, performs preventive health screenings, and manages care coordination with specialists and behavioral health providers.

By adhering to evidence-based practices and regulatory standards, the physician helps maintain compliance with HRSA requirements and supports quality improvement initiatives. Additionally, the Staff Physician contributes to reducing health disparities, improving community health outcomes and fostering trust between patients and the health care team.

Duties/Responsibilities

Patient Care

  • Provide primary care to adult patients on-site in clinic with an interdisciplinary approach.
  • Rotating 7-day phone-based call system to include urgent patient communications, ED visits, hospital admissions, panic lab values, etc.
  • Provide consultation regarding general primary care, as needed.
  • Provide primary medical care, for diverse populations, including patients with HIV, Hep C, substance use disorder & LGBTQ+ patients.

Teaching/Training

  • Precept students, residents, and other medical staff during elective rotations at Trillium Health.
  • Required to obtain 50 or more CME credits per year to remain eligible for medical staff credentialing and commercial insurance crediting.

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Complete all clinical documentation within 3 days of medical treatment.
  • Complete assigned Ongoing Peer Reviews quarterly.
  • Complete Focused Peer Reviews as assigned.

Miscellaneous

  • Requires the ability and commitment to respect and support patients, other employees, and visitors with various lived experiences.
  • Requires individual demonstration of commitment to the mission, vision, One Trillium values, behaviors, and modeling them in the organization.
  • Responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of all patient, client, employee, protected and proprietary information.
  • Employees are accountable for meeting the performance standards of their departments and must participate as requested in compliance audits and quality improvement plans.
  • Required to participate in continuous improvement of job responsibilities and organizational or work processes to advance the organization or department.
  • Other specific duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Attributes

  • M.D. or D.O. Degree and Board Certified or Eligible in Internal Medicine.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, sit, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk; and hear. Occasionally the employee must stoop, bend, and lift or move up to 25 lbs. Vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

In support of the Americans with Disabilities Act, this job description lists only those responsibilities and qualifications deemed essential to the position.

Key Responsibilities

The Staff Physician provides comprehensive primary care to adult patients, diagnosing and treating acute and chronic conditions. Responsibilities include managing care coordination with specialists, performing health screenings, and precepting medical students and residents.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an M.D. or D.O. degree and be Board Certified or Eligible in Internal Medicine. The role requires a commitment to serving diverse populations and maintaining medical staff credentialing through annual CME credits.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Chronic Disease ManagementPatient ConsultationInterdisciplinary CollaborationMedical Precepting

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Staff Physician - Internal Medicine at TRILLIUM HEALTH a 6.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Physician roles — ranked against 21,509 active Physician roles listings on WeekdayDoc.

Internal Medicine — Physician Career Context

In New York, the Internal Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$258k (96 salary observations; 156 listings), vs ~$266k nationally (970 salary observations; 3,315 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Internal Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 6% are remote, 50% have no call, 66% require no weekends.

Internal Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.3% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for New York is 107.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$252k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $233k in an average-cost state. 64.6% of New York clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Salary Distribution50 jobs · 35 employers

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6
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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks44 jobs · 35 employers

401k / retirement match
86%
Sign-on bonus
73%
CME allowance
57% this job
Relocation assistance
39%
Loan repayment
23% this job

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 6.0
Better work-life than 50% of Internal Medicine listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,290 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call

Living in Rochester

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$247k≈ 1.0× annual pay
Typical market rent
$1,476/mo≈ 8% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
19 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
97.0
State income tax
Up to 10.9%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Rochester, NY metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.