Lovelace Medical Group in Albuquerque, NM is seeking a full-time BE/BC Fellowship Trained Hand Surgeon to join their practice.
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Job Description
Lovelace Medical Group in Albuquerque, NM is seeking a full-time BE/BC Fellowship Trained Hand Surgeon to join their practice.
About the Position
- Join a team of 4 physicians and 5 APP’s
- Support Staff of 30
- Onsite X-ray
- Work Schedule: 8am-5pm Monday- Friday
- Expected Patient Load: 6.5 minimum patient contact hours per clinic day
- Admin time is built into schedule
- On Call 4-5 days a month
- Required to take General Orthopedic Call
- Hand Fellowship is required
- Residency must be in Orthopedics only
Recruitment Package May Include
Base salary + wRVU production incentive
CME allowance
Sign-on bonus
Medical debt assistance + Consultative services by Navigate Student Loans
Relocation allowance
Residency stipend
Paid malpractice coverage
Health benefits + Retirement plan
Marketing + Practice Growth Assistance
- J-1 waiver support via State Conrad 30, ARC, DRA, and HHS based on location and specialty
- O-1
About the Medical Group
Lovelace Medical Group is a multispecialty provider group, inclusive of clinics, doctors, and advanced practice providers in a broad range of specialties and primary care. Lovelace Health System built the city’s first hospital and since our organization was founded 100 years ago, we have been committed to serving our community and creating the best quality of life possible for the patients we serve.
Lovelace has been identified in Modern Healthcare Best Places to Work in Healthcare, deemed a New Mexico Family-Friendly Workplace, and recognized as a Patient-Centered Medical Home among other awards.
About the Community
New Mexico is a rural state, surrounded by high-desert landscape and ample wildlife, rich with historical tradition and folklore. Primary languages are English and Spanish coupled with other Indigenous languages such as Navajo.
The terrain is supportive of outdoor lifestyles including mountain biking, hiking, sightseeing, fishing, hunting, winter, and water sports. The cuisine is embedded with rich culture of Spanish and Indigenous people’s ritualistic recipes leaving you to answer: red, green or Christmas?
Albuquerque acts as the hub of NM, as it is the biggest city and centered geographically in the state.
Patients from outlying areas seek care for acute and chronic conditions in the metro area, which is served by three main health systems: Lovelace Health System, Presbyterian Health System and University of New Mexico Hospital.
Key Responsibilities
The Hand Surgeon will provide clinical care to patients with a minimum of 6.5 contact hours per clinic day. The role also includes participating in a general orthopedic on-call rotation 4-5 days per month.
Requirements
Candidates must be Board Eligible or Board Certified and have completed a Hand Surgery fellowship. A residency in Orthopedics is strictly required for this position.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Surgery — Physician Career Context
Of the 47 active Physician listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 96% have no call, 79% require no weekends.
Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
For production-based offers, this specialty runs a typical 5,000 wRVUs per year (derived from CMS CPT-frequency data), and WeekdayDoc listings compensate a median of about $50 per wRVU — implying roughly $250k in production-based pay. For reference, the 2026 CMS Medicare conversion factor is $33.40 per RVU.
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