Lovelace Medical Group in Albuquerque, NM is seeking a full-time BE/BC Orthopedic 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 Orthopedic 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
Free Childcare: New Mexico now offers universal, no-cost childcare for all families, eliminating copays and income limits statewide-saving physicians and APPs an average of $12,000–$14,000 per child per year while providing access to any licensed childcare setting.
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 surgeon will provide orthopedic hand care within a multispecialty group, working alongside physicians and APPs. Responsibilities include maintaining a clinic schedule, performing patient consultations, and participating in general orthopedic on-call rotations.
Requirements
Candidates must be BE/BC in Orthopedic Surgery and have completed a Hand Fellowship. The role requires a commitment to a full-time, on-site schedule and participation in the general orthopedic call rotation.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Lovelace Medical Group in Albuquerque, NM is seeking a full-time BE/BC Orthopedic Hand Surgeon to join their practice. at Lovelace Health System a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 10% in Orthopedic Surgery — ranked against 359 active Orthopedic Surgery listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements.
Orthopedic Surgery — Physician Career Context
Physician pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).
For production-based offers, this specialty runs a typical 8,500 wRVUs per year (derived from CMS CPT-frequency data), and WeekdayDoc listings compensate a median of about $48 per wRVU — implying roughly $408k in production-based pay. For reference, the 2026 CMS Medicare conversion factor is $33.40 per RVU.
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- No weekends
- Includes call
Living in Albuquerque
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $340k
- Typical market rent
- $1,455/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 22 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 95.5
- State income tax
- Up to 5.9%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Albuquerque, NM metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.
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