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Skilled Wound Care
Sacramento, California

Internal Medicine Physician

Internal Medicine 8.0 Work-LifeNo callNo weekendsContract

Listed compensation

$200k-$300k

The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday

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Job Description

  • Job Title: Internal Medicine Physician
  • Location: Sacramento, CA
  • Employment Type: Full-time or Part-time
  • Salary: $200,000 – $300,000 per year for Full-time
  • Internal Medicine Physician Jobs in Sacramento, CA: Your Clinical Expertise, a Better Way to Practice

You chose Internal Medicine to solve complex medical problems and care for patients.

Instead, many internists spend their days managing patients with multiple chronic conditions in rushed visits, carrying ever-growing hospitalist censuses, working 12-hour shifts and nights, and fighting prior authorizations and overflowing inboxes.

Across the country, Internal Medicine physicians are feeling the strain. Skilled Wound Care, a premier national physician group, is hiring Internal Medicine Physicians in Sacramento, CA to work as wound care physicians and lead wound care initiatives in skilled nursing facilities across the area.

Maybe you’re a hospitalist ready to step away from night shifts, high patient censuses and discharge pressure. Maybe you’re an outpatient internist tired of packed clinic schedules and after-hours messages. Either way, this no-call Internal Medicine Physician job offers a high-impact career without the corporate red tape.

Why Internal Medicine Physicians in Sacramento, CA Choose Wound Care

In a specialty where the work can mean long shifts, nights and nonstop admissions, we offer a refreshing alternative:

The “No-Call” Lifestyle: No nights, no weekends and no pagers. No overnight admissions or after-hours patient portal messages. This is a true Monday–Friday physician job, so your evenings and weekends belong to you and your family.

Put Your Medical Expertise to Work: Chronic wounds are closely tied to diabetes, vascular disease and other comorbidities. Your Internal Medicine training is exactly what these patients need.

Add Procedures to Your Practice: Perform surgical debridement and other bedside procedures, with full training provided.

Clinical Autonomy: Direct patient outcomes based on your clinical expertise, not a hospital committee or department hierarchy.

Smarter Documentation: Our custom software is designed to slash admin time, so you’re not stuck charting at midnight when you could be home at a reasonable hour.

See Patients Heal: Follow patients through healing and build lasting relationships, instead of discharging them and never seeing the outcome.

  • Internal Medicine Physician Responsibilities
  • Use the latest advancements in wound healing to change lives in communities across Sacramento, CA:
  • Surgical and sharp debridement and other bedside procedures
  • Evaluation and treatment of chronic, non-healing and complex wounds
  • Management of the underlying conditions that affect wound healing

Advanced Dressings and Specialized Wound Protocols

  • Collaborative care in skilled nursing facilities and the post-acute setting, where you follow patients through healing
  • Internal Medicine Physician Salary & Compensation
  • Average Annual Earnings: 200,000–250,000 (no earning cap as an independent contractor)
  • High Achievers: Top performers earn $300,000+ through performance bonuses
  • Pay Structure: Per-patient and per-procedure pay, plus quarterly bonus programs
  • Internal Medicine Physician Requirements
  • Medical Degree: MD or DO from an accredited institution
  • Medical License: Unrestricted/clear medical license in the state of practice (or eligibility to obtain one)
  • DEA License: Or eligibility to obtain one
  • Open Background: We welcome Internal Medicine physicians and hospitalists, as well as Family Medicine physicians and surgeons of all backgrounds. No previous wound care or procedural experience is required; we provide comprehensive wound care training
  • Great Place to Work® Certified!

Skilled Wound Care is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for the 5th year in a row. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Skilled Wound Care. This year, 95% of employees said it’s a great place to work – 39% higher than the average U.S. company.

Apply for This Internal Medicine Physician Job in Sacramento, CA

You became an internist to solve complex problems, not to chase a census. If you’re an Internal Medicine Physician or hospitalist in Sacramento, CA looking for a no-call, Monday–Friday career with hands-on procedures and no earning cap, apply today.

Skilled Wound Care will ask all candidates to perform pre-employment confidential DiSC testing and appropriate relevant skills testing prior to hiring.

Skilled Wound Care, part of Skilled Physicians Group, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.

Key Responsibilities

The physician will perform surgical and sharp debridement and other bedside procedures to treat chronic, non-healing wounds. They will also manage underlying conditions affecting wound healing and provide collaborative care within skilled nursing facilities.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an MD or DO degree from an accredited institution and possess an unrestricted medical license in the state of practice. Eligibility for a DEA license is also required, and no prior wound care experience is necessary.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Chronic Wound ManagementClinical DocumentationPatient AssessmentPost-acute Care

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Internal Medicine Physician at Skilled Wound Care a 8.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 10% in Internal Medicine — ranked against 1,260 active Internal Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements.

Internal Medicine — Physician Career Context

Skilled Wound Care holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 84/100, 56 active listings.

Of the 50 active Internal Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 42% have no call, 70% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$250k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $226k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks47 jobs · 37 employers

401k / retirement match
85%
CME allowance
64%
Sign-on bonus
53% this job
Relocation assistance
36%
Loan repayment
32%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 8.0
Among the best 10% of Internal Medicine listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,260 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No call
  • No weekends

Living in Sacramento

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$455k≈ 2.3× annual pay
Typical market rent
$2,056/mo≈ 12% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
25 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
106.7
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 · Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About Skilled Wound Care

Hospitals and Health Care
Los Angeles, California
51-200 employees

Benefits & Perks

No call
No nights
No weekends
Quarterly bonus programs
Comprehensive wound care training