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Melrose, Minnesota

Family Medicine Physician – Full-Spectrum – Melrose, MN

Family MedicineIncludes callIncludes weekendsFull-Time

Listed compensation

Salary range: $260K–$500K

The week · per this posting4-day week

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Posted 6mo ago

Job Description

Customizable scope | Full-spectrum rural practice | Four-day work week

This position is eligible for hiring incentives to include sign-on bonus and relocation assistance.

Summary

Join CentraCare in Melrose, Minnesota, and practice full-spectrum Family Medicine with OB in a supportive, team-based rural setting.

This role offers a four-day work week, modern facilities, and the flexibility to customize your practice across clinic, OB, and emergency care while maintaining a sustainable call schedule.

Physicians enjoy the autonomy to shape their scope of practice within a close-knit, family-friendly community that values high-quality care and work-life balance.

Schedule: * Full-time | 1.0 FTE | Onsite at CentraCare- Melrose

  • Four-day work week with flexibility to customize your clinical mix
  • Typically three days in clinic and one day in the Level IV Emergency Department: * Additional ED shifts available for those interested; fewer ED shifts available based on provider preference
  • Call:
  • Weekday call approximately 1:4, providing backup coverage to APP overnight care
  • Weekend call includes primary hospitalist responsibilities such as admissions and rounding

Pay and Benefits

  • Salary range: $260,000 - $500,000 per year
  • Pay may be determined by factors such as education, experience, skills, knowledge, location, and internal equity
  • Salary and salary range are based on a 1.0 FTE, reduced FTE will result in a prorated offer rate
  • May be eligible for additional pay through bonuses, quality incentives, or production-based compensation.
  • Benefits: Medical, dental, time off, retirement, employee discounts and more!

Qualifications

Required

  • BE/BC in Family Medicine
  • Eligibility for Minnesota medical licensure

Our Location - Melrose

CentraCare, a leading not-for-profit health system and one of the largest providers of rural care, serves patients across Central, West Central, and Southwestern Minnesota.

It delivers nationally recognized care through 40+ medical and surgical specialties, innovative population health programs, and a collaborative physician–administration leadership model. CentraCare – Melrose offers high-quality, convenient care close to home to a service area of nearly 20,000.

The campus features a Level IV trauma center and critical access hospital, a family medicine clinic, 12 private patient rooms, 14 universal outpatient rooms, 2 labor and delivery suites, 2 operating suites, a separate emergency entrance with 2 trauma bays and drive-thru ambulance garage, and advanced imaging including MRI and 3D mammography.

Adjacent to the medical campus are a 75-bed long-term care facility and a 60-unit assisted living building.

Outpatient services include chemotherapy, IV infusions, rehabilitation, transitional care, diabetes education, integrated behavioral health, complemented by visiting specialists and tele-stroke/STEMI collaboration with St. Cloud Hospital.

The Melrose community is known for its lakes, parks, and forests, strong schools, vibrant small businesses, cultural offerings like community theater, and convenient access to St. Cloud, Alexandria, and Minneapolis/St. Paul via I-94.

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Key Responsibilities

The physician will provide full-spectrum family medicine care, including obstetrics and emergency department coverage in a rural setting. Responsibilities include maintaining a sustainable call schedule, performing hospitalist duties, and collaborating within a team-based medical environment.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Emergency medicinePatient careClinical practiceHospitalist servicesTeam-based careTrauma careMedical imagingInpatient careOutpatient care

Family Medicine — Physician Career Context

In Minnesota, the Family Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$317k (104 salary observations; 246 listings), vs ~$264k nationally (1,925 salary observations; 6,555 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Centra Care ranks #1 of 21 employers hiring Family Medicine on WeekdayDoc by average advertised pay.

Of the 50 active Family Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 6% are remote, 56% have no call, 58% require no weekends.

Family Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

For production-based offers, this specialty runs a typical 8,530 wRVUs per year (derived from CMS CPT-frequency data), and WeekdayDoc listings compensate a median of about $50 per wRVU — implying roughly $427k in production-based pay. For reference, the 2026 CMS Medicare conversion factor is $33.40 per RVU.

Top Family Medicine Jobs

50 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution50 jobs · 36 employers

12
<$315k
7
$315k-340k
16
$340k-365k
11
$365k-390k
4
$390k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks44 jobs · 36 employers

401k / retirement match
89%
Sign-on bonus
61% this job
CME allowance
61%
Relocation assistance
43% this job
Loan repayment
30%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.2this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Family Medicine listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,586 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call
  • Includes weekends

Living in Melrose

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$225k≈ 0.9× annual pay
Median resident rent
$1,103/mo≈ 5% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
20 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
87.6
State income tax
Up to 9.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · St. Cloud, MN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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