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Advanced Correctional Healthcare
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Physician - Part Time 1hr weekly

Correctional MedicineIncludes callNo nightsPart-Time

Listed compensation

$250-$325/hr

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Job Description

  • Job Location: Minnehaha County Juvenile Detention Center - Sioux Falls, SD
  • Position Type: Part Time
  • Education Level: Graduate Degree
  • Salary Range: $250.00 - $325.00Hourly
  • Travel Percentage: None
  • Job Shift: Day
  • Job Category: Physician

Summary

Our associates deliver a higher standard of business services to support medical care and behavioral health care. We maintain professionalism, integrity, and commitment as we solve problems and make lives easier.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Perform problem-focused, individualized medical assessments. Be physically on-site at assigned correctional facility(s) on a regular basis.

Must document dates and times of provided site coverage by logging hours into online payroll system. Provide 24/7 on-call phone services. Provide back up call for other facilities as needed. Personally, examine patients as needed.

The expectation is that you stay on-site until all patients that need to be seen are seen. Prescribe medication (including narcotics) and treatment within your prescriptive authority, as appropriate in your professional medical judgement, and without regard to cost.

When prescribing, you should be mindful of things such as, but not limited to, medication adverse reactions, medication interactions, substance abuse issues, mental health disorders, comorbidities, allergies, pain level, vital signs, contraindications, drug monitoring, etc. in the context of the individual patient.

You should prescribe medication for the appropriate duration of time, as determined by your professional medical judgement. Review patient medical records, as appropriate Sign off on orders, as appropriate.

Comply with the correctional facility’s policies and procedures, unless doing so would be counter to common sense.

If a determination is made that off-site care would be more appropriate for the patient, work with medical staff to send the patient off site or make appointments with the understanding that this can be overruled by the Sheriff/Jailer Endeavor to attend a minimum of 1 ACH medical conference per year.

Any and all other duties as assigned.

BENEFITS (Benefits eligibility is determined by employment status): Referral program 401(k) Health insurance Vision insurance Dental insurance Professional Development Paid Time Off Disability Insurance Qualifications: Valid medical license (MD, DO, NP, PA) in the state in which services are to be provided is required.

Current Board Certification required. Current DEA registration required. Current collaborative agreement, if required by state. Experience in a primary care specialty, corrections, and/or managed health care delivery required. Valid driver’s license and ability to drive a motor vehicle required. Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; hands-on training required.

Key Responsibilities

The physician is responsible for performing individualized medical assessments and providing on-site care at the juvenile detention center. They must also provide 24/7 on-call phone services and manage medication prescriptions according to professional medical judgment.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a valid medical license (MD, DO, NP, or PA) in the state of practice along with current Board Certification and DEA registration. Experience in primary care, corrections, or managed health care is required, as is a valid driver's license and BLS certification.

Qualifications

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

Certifications

DEA License

Key Skills

Medical assessmentCorrectional medicinePrescribing medicationPatient examinationMedical record reviewClinical judgmentBehavioral health support

Correctional Medicine — Physician Career Context

Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.6% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

The cost-of-living index for South Dakota is 88.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$598k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $675k in an average-cost state. 58.2% of South Dakota clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Physician by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score3.6 / 10 · above average in correctional medicineranked against 74 Correctional Medicine listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed pay$520k–$676kPhysician median $364k (middle half $292k–$364k)17 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$675k in purchasing powerSouth Dakota index 88.6 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
All physician listings in South Dakota147 active22,405 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedSouth Dakota physician listings (all specialties): 9% state a sign-on bonus · 1% offer loan repayment147 active listings, Nov 2026
Correctional Medicine hiring demandnot ranked this monthpostings stay open a median 36 daysWeekdayDoc Hiring Index, October 2026 · 21 postings, 33 closed
New Correctional Medicine listings57 in the last 30 days45 the 30 days before (+27%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Physician pay trend (all specialties)−1.6% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (74 Correctional Medicine listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024), WeekdayDoc Hiring Index; as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page. South Dakota figures use all physicians: too few South Dakota Correctional Medicine postings state pay.

Location & Logistics

South Dakota has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states. At the posted ~$598k midpoint, that is roughly $24k–$42k a year versus a typical 4–7% state rate.

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.1this job 3.6
Better work-life than 50% of Correctional Medicine listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 74 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Advanced Correctional Healthcare

Hospitals and Health Care
Franklin, Tennessee
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

Referral program
401(k)
Health insurance
Vision insurance
Dental insurance
Professional Development
Paid Time Off
Disability Insurance

Living in Sioux Falls

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$302k
Typical market rent
$1,279/mo
Residents’ average commute
17 min
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

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