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Cortez, Colorado

Locum Physician full scope (MED PEDS or Family Medicine + Pediatrics)

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Job Description

24-Hour Shift Coverage Overview

Bed Capacity

  • ICU Beds: 4
  • Acute Care Beds: 13 (including utilization of swing beds, averaging 4 within the acute care)
  • Swing Beds: 4 (on average)

Patient Acuity

  • Varied acuity levels including cases of pneumonia, sepsis, general weakness, diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), and respiratory failure.

Patient Volume Statistics

  • Maximum Census: 20 (which includes 3 rooms in the Family Birthing Unit)
  • Minimum Census: 2-4
  • Average Daily Census: 8
  • Average Weekly Admissions: 12-20
  • Average Daily Discharges: 1-4
  • Average Length of Stay (LOS) in Medical-Surgical: 4 days

Metrics for Year 2025 (Up to October 2025)

  • Total Bed Utilization:
  • Medical/Surgical: 5
  • ICU: 2
  • OB (integrated within Med/Surg & ICU): 1
  • Swing: 3

Electronic Medical Records System

  • EMR utilized is Cerner.

Onsite Subspecialty Support

  • General Surgery, Anesthesia, Orthopedics, Podiatry, and Obstetrics/Gynecology with 24/7 coverage.

Experience & Qualifications

  • Open to new graduates (must be board-certified or board-eligible).
  • Skills required include the ability to perform intubations, placement of central lines, management of codes, and rapid response activations.
  • Availability of a call room onsite.
  • Case logs must be submitted, covering the last 24 months.

*Working Hours:

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  • 7 to 10 shifts per month, each shift being 24 hours in duration.

Required Skills:**

  • Candidates should possess the competencies listed in the experience & qualifications section.

Feel free to reach out if you need additional clarifications or amendments!

Key Responsibilities

Provide 24-hour shift coverage for medical, surgical, and ICU patients, including managing acute cases like sepsis and respiratory failure. Responsibilities include performing critical procedures such as intubations and central line placements while managing codes and rapid response activations.

Requirements

Candidates must be board-certified or board-eligible in Med-Peds or Family Medicine with Pediatrics. Applicants are required to submit case logs from the last 24 months and demonstrate proficiency in emergency procedures.

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

IntubationCentral line placementCode managementRapid response activationInternal medicineCerner EMRCritical carePatient assessment

Family Medicine — Physician Career Context

In Colorado, the Family Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$260k (82 salary observations; 213 listings), vs ~$262k nationally (1,222 salary observations; 6,170 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 50 active Family Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 16% are remote, 54% have no call, 52% require no weekends.

Family Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is up 7.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Colorado is 103.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.9% of Colorado clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Top Family Medicine Jobs

50 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution50 jobs · 36 employers

18
<$330k
19
$330k-360k
6
$360k-390k
4
$390k-420k
3
$420k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks43 jobs · 36 employers

401k / retirement match
88%
Sign-on bonus
77%
CME allowance
65%
Relocation assistance
47%
Loan repayment
40%

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Work-life snapshot

1.9/ 10
Listing-based score

Living in Cortez

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$356k
Typical market rent
$1,756/mo
Residents’ average commute
15 min
State income tax
Up to 4.4%
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.