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Fosston, Minnesota

PHYSICIAN - Emergency Medicine - Casual, Fo

Emergency MedicineNo callPer Diem

Listed compensation

Compensation Range: $1.00–$1000K

The week · per this posting

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Posted 3mo ago

Job Description

Building Location: Fosston Clinic Department: 3041520 EMERGENCY SERVICES - FS HOSP Job Description: Education Qualifications: Licensure/Certification Qualifications: Seeking a casual Emergency Medicine Physician to work in Essentia Health-Fosston's Emergency Room.

Facility Overview Come to Essentia Health-Fosston for personalized care if you live in Fosston or the surrounding area. We’re a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital. We treat our patients like we’d treat our own family and friends. Our medical providers may even know you because many of them live in town.

Get more of the care you need close to home, including 24-hour emergency care. You’ll find us attached to the Essentia Health-Fosston Clinic. We’re also next to the Essentia Health Living Center and Prairie Pines Community. Whether you’re in Bagley, Mahnomen, Oklee, or another city near Fosston, we’re here for you.

Qualifications for Position BE/BC Emergency Medicine Physician BE/BC Family Medicine Physician Emergency medicine experience

Compensation

Casual rate $182.78 an hour.

Hired candidates may be eligible to receive additional compensation in the form of bonuses, quality incentives or production-based compensation Contact for more information: Carri Prudhomme, Senior Physician & Advanced Practice Recruiter 218-786-3907 or Carri.Prudhomme@Essentiahealth.org FTE: 0 Possible Remote/Hybrid Option: Shift Rotation: Day/Eve Rotation (United States of America) Shift Start Time: 5pm Shift End Time: 8am Weekends: Holidays: No Call Obligation: No Union: Union Posting Deadline: Compensation Range: $1.00 - $1,000,000.00 Employee Benefits at Essentia Health: At Essentia Health, we’re committed to supporting your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, along with supplemental options to fit your needs.

We offer a 401(k) plan with employer contributions to help you plan for the future, and we invest in your professional development through training, tuition reimbursement, and educational programs.

To help you thrive both at work and at home, we provide flexible scheduling, generous time off, and wellness resources focused on your physical, mental, and emotional health. Please note that benefit eligibility may vary.

For full details, refer to your benefit summary or contact our HR Service Center at (218) 576-0000. To search for more jobs, please CLICK HERE. Find more than a job. Find more in yourself. Find your calling.

Essentia Health seeks employees who embrace our commitment to patient- and family-centered care in communities both large and small. We're looking for people who are committed to making patients and their families feel known and understood. People who understand what it means to be Here with you.

People who are willing to use their strengths to help others. Our Values Quality | Hospitality | Respect | Joy | Justice | Stewardship | Teamwork Essentia Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Essentia Health does not discriminate in employment because of age, color, creed, culture, disability (physical or mental), ethnicity, familial status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, language, local Human Rights Commission activity, national origin, military service, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or public assistance status.

Job offers are contingent upon successful completion of post-offer screenings.

Screenings includes verification of your legal right to work in the United States, a health screening and immunization review, verification of applicable licensure, certifications, education, and experience, and background checks including criminal, urine drug screen and MVR where required.

Key Responsibilities

Provide personalized emergency medical care to patients in a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital. Deliver 24-hour emergency services to the Fosston community and surrounding areas.

Requirements

Must be Board Eligible or Board Certified in Emergency Medicine or Family Medicine. Previous experience in emergency medicine is required.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

Board Certification

Key Skills

Patient CareCritical Access Hospital CareClinical DiagnosisEmergency Room Operations

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates PHYSICIAN - Emergency Medicine - Casual, Fosston, MN at Essentia Health a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Emergency Medicine — ranked against 1,027 active Emergency Medicine listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.

Emergency Medicine — Physician Career Context

Essentia Health holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 73/100, 153 active listings.

Of the 40 active Emergency Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 5% are remote, 93% have no call, 57% require no weekends.

For production-based offers, this specialty runs a typical 15,609 wRVUs per year (derived from CMS CPT-frequency data), and WeekdayDoc listings compensate a median of about $58 per wRVU — implying roughly $905k in production-based pay. For reference, the 2026 CMS Medicare conversion factor is $33.40 per RVU.

Top contract/1099 Emergency Medicine Jobs

40 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution38 jobs · 10 employers

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks37 jobs · 10 employers

401k / retirement match
81% this job
CME allowance
32%
Sign-on bonus
14%
Relocation assistance
14%
Loan repayment
8%

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Work-life snapshot

median 1.5this job 6.1
Better work-life than 90% of Emergency Medicine listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,027 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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Living in Fosston

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$226k
Median resident rent
$790/mo
Residents’ average commute
15 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
86.7
State income tax
Up to 9.8%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Grand Forks, ND-MN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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

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About Essentia Health

Hospitals and Health Care
Duluth, MN
5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
401(k) plan with employer contributions
Training, tuition reimbursement, and educational programs
Flexible scheduling
Generous time off
Wellness resources