Hendrick Medical Center- South - HM Physician- Days
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- Employment & setting
- Full-Time
- Call expectations
- Not specified
- Weekends
- Not specified
Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Join a well-supported, physician-friendly hospitalist team at Hendrick Medical
Center South, part of the respected, not-for-profit Hendrick Health System. This
is a great opportunity for internal medicine physicians seeking a manageable
census, strong staffing model, and meaningful clinical autonomy in a growing,
community-focused setting.
Practice Highlights
* Schedule: 7 days on / 7 days off (7am - 7pm)
* 231-bed hospital with a 20-bed open ICU
* Average 12 - 15 patients per day
* 1 - 2 admissions daily
* Minimal ICU volume (0 - 1 admits/day)
Team-Based Model
* 5 daytime physicians
* Dedicated day APC + swing APC
* Nocturnist coverage overnight
Hospitalists play an active role in...
* ICU admissions
* Codes and rapid response
* Select bedside procedures (support and proctoring available)
Strong specialty support including cardiology, GI, neurology, pulmonology, ID
general surgery, IR, OB/GYN, and more.
Interested in learning more? Apply today!
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City Caption
Great place to work, play, and live!
City Description
No matter where you come from, you will find a little bit of everything in this
university city of 120,000 located on 1-20 just 2.5 hours west of the
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas metro. The city offers three 4-year colleges and hosts
annual events that celebrate the western lifestyle and values of the working
ranch. Abilene's civic progressiveness and its logistic function as a regional
center for distribution, commerce, industry, transportation, and education
provide an assortment of lodging, dining, cultural, and shopping opportunities
typically found only in much larger cities. Enjoy the local lakes, the arts, the
Abilene zoo, and an abundance of parks. Explore why people call Abilene home!
Job Benefits
- Desirable and flexible schedule of 7 days on, 7 days off
- Established hospital medicine program at a busy medical center
- Collaborative practice environment
- Stability of a respected industry leader
- Comprehensive benefits package
- $25k sign-on incentive is available for qualified clinicians
- $20k relocation bonus
- $2k per month residency stipend, if applicable
- Student loan repayment program, if applicable
- Access to professional development tools, educational resources and CME
- Access to TeamHealth's clinician wellness program and referral program
Key Responsibilities
The hospitalist will manage a manageable patient census, perform ICU admissions, and respond to codes and rapid response calls. They will work collaboratively within a team-based model to provide high-quality clinical care in a community-focused hospital setting.
Requirements
Candidates must be internal medicine physicians capable of working a 7 days on/7 days off schedule. The role requires the ability to handle ICU volume and perform select bedside procedures.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Hospital Medicine — Physician Career Context
In Texas, the Hospital Medicine weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$259k (20 salary observations; 97 listings), vs ~$296k nationally (815 salary observations; 2,609 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2025-12-01 through 2026-09-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
Of the 38 active Hospital Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 5% are remote, 55% have no call, 34% require no weekends.
Hospital Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is up 9.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Texas is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 57.7% of Texas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Location & Logistics
Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.
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Listing-based score
Above average in Hospital Medicine
Living in Abilene
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $237k
- Typical market rent
- $2,016/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 16 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 90.4
- State income tax
- None
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Abilene, TX metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.