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Impact to Health
Birmingham, Alabama

Primary Care Physician

Primary Care 8.0 Work-LifeNo callNo weekendsFull-Time

Pay not listed · no call, no weekends · Birmingham, Alabama.

Compensation

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Job Description

Seeking a Compassionate Primary Care Physician in Birmingham, AL

Summary: Our client is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Physician to join their team in delivering high-quality care to our diverse and underserved patient population.

The ideal candidate will diagnose, educate, and initiate treatment in an outpatient clinic setting, collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team to promote health and prevent disease. This position offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a health center committed to comprehensive, patient-centered care.

Core Responsibilities

Comprehensive Clinical Care: Examine patients of all backgrounds, diagnose conditions, order/interpret diagnostic tests (labs, imaging), and develop and implement personalized care plans for long-term conditions (e. g., diabetes, hypertension) and conduct wellness exams.

Team-Based Care & Coordination: Collaborate with internal and community providers, and specialists to manage care transitions, ensuring continuity, particularly for medically complex patients. Supervise and support advanced practice professionals.

Patient Advocacy & Communication: Build trusting, long-term relationships through effective, empathetic communication. Educate patients and families on disease management and healthy lifestyle changes.

Efficient Workflow & Technology Adoption: Utilize Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems to maintain accurate, up-to-date, and detailed documentation in the electronic medical record system.

  • Practice Highlights
  • Setting: 100% Outpatient Primary Care
  • Patient Base: Senior/ Adult Focused
  • Schedule: Monday–Friday
  • Care Team: Comprehensive support (MAs, Care Coordinators, Admin)
  • EMR: Athena
  • Core Focus: Preventive care, chronic disease management, and long-term patient continuity

Requirements

Qualifications

  • Education: Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) degree from an accredited medical school.
  • Certification: Board Certified/Eligible in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or a related field.
  • Licensure: Current unrestricted state medical license and DEA license.

Interpersonal Skills: Exceptional empathy, compassion, and the ability to build rapport with diverse, often vulnerable, patient populations.

Benefits

Compensation estimates comprised of base salary & bonuses.

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical and dental insurance.
  • Employer-paid short-term disability.
  • Long-term disability and life insurance coverage.
  • Malpractice insurance provided.
  • Continuing Medical Education (CME) allowance.
  • Generous vacation and sick leave policy.

Key Responsibilities

The physician will diagnose and treat patients in an outpatient setting while developing personalized care plans for chronic conditions. They will also collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure continuity of care and provide patient education.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Clinical diagnosisPatient care plansElectronic health recordsTeam collaborationMedical documentationInterpersonal communicationDiagnostic test interpretation

Primary Care — Physician Career Context

Of the 50 active Primary Care listings this role was benchmarked against, 14% are remote, 46% have no call, 56% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Alabama is 88.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.3% of Alabama clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Impact to Health holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 75/100, 15 active listings.

Primary Care pay on WeekdayDoc is down 2.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Primary Care Physician at Impact to Health a 8.0 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 10% in Primary Care — ranked against 1,306 active Primary Care listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements.

Top Primary Care Jobs

46 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution46 jobs · 35 employers

9
<$280k
6
$280k-325k
19
$325k-370k
7
$370k-415k
5
$415k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks39 jobs · 35 employers

401k / retirement match
90%
Sign-on bonus
56%
CME allowance
56% this job
Relocation assistance
44%
Loan repayment
28%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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Work-life snapshot

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

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,306 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No call
  • No weekends

Living in Birmingham

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$112k
Typical market rent
$1,322/mo
Residents’ average commute
21 min
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.

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

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Benefits & Perks

100% employer-paid medical and dental insurance
Employer-paid short-term disability
Long-term disability and life insurance coverage
Malpractice insurance provided
Continuing Medical Education (CME) allowance
Generous vacation and sick leave policy