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Abington, Pennsylvania

Infectious Disease Physician- Jefferson Abington Hospital

Infectious DiseaseFull-Time

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Job Description

Jefferson Abington Hospital is seeking a full-time Infectious Disease Physician to join our growing team in Abington, Pennsylvania.

Job Description

Job Details

Jefferson Abington Hospital is seeking a full-time Infectious Disease Physician to join our growing team in Abington, Pennsylvania. This is an exciting opportunity to provide comprehensive inpatient and outpatient infectious disease care in a collaborative, academic environment within Jefferson Health, one of the region's most respected health systems.

The successful candidate will join a team of 6 experienced infectious disease specialists dedicated to delivering exceptional patient care, advancing medical education, and supporting the continued growth of our Infectious Disease program.

Job Description

Provide comprehensive inpatient and outpatient infectious disease consultation services, with a wide variety of clinical pathology.

Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of infectious disease specialists, hospitalists, surgeons, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals across multiple departments.

Teach and mentor medical students and residents within a vibrant academic environment.

Competitive compensation package with comprehensive health, retirement, and paid time off benefits, CME support, and malpractice coverage.

Qualifications

  • MD or DO degree required.
  • Board Certified or Board Eligible in Infectious Diseases.
  • Eligible for medical licensure in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
  • Prior inpatient infectious disease experience preferred.
  • Interest in teaching, collaboration, and academic medicine is highly desirable.

Work Shift

  • Workday Day (United States of America)
  • Worker Sub Type
  • Regular
  • Employee Entity
  • Abington Memorial Hospital
  • Primary Location Address
  • 1235 Old York Road, Abington, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value.

Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research.

Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.

Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region.

Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts.

Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service.

All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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Key Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive inpatient and outpatient infectious disease consultation services while collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals. Additionally, the role involves teaching and mentoring medical students and residents within an academic environment.

Qualifications

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

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Inpatient careOutpatient careMultidisciplinary collaborationInfection control

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Infectious Disease Physician- Jefferson Abington Hospital at Jefferson Health Plans a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Physician roles — ranked against 21,832 active Physician roles listings on WeekdayDoc.

Infectious Disease — Physician Career Context

The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.6this job 6.6
Better work-life than 50% of Infectious Disease listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 166 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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Living in Abington

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$402k
Typical market rent
$1,669/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
102.6
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026).

BEA 2024 · Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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