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Centra Medical Group
Farmville, Virginia

Urgent Care Physician Assistant

Physician AssistantFull-Time

Compensation

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Posted 4mo ago

Job Description

Centra Medical Group Farmville is part of a dedicated group of providers that provides comprehensive primary care and urgent care for the entire family. Our mission is to provide the community with access to quality care, improving the overall wellness and lifestyle of each of our patients. We provide care to pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.

By joining our team, you will have the satisfaction of providing a full range of care to a varied patient panel backed by a top-rated health care system with a fully implemented EMR and admitting hospitals nearby.

Centra Medical Group (CMG) is a comprehensive network of nearly 600 employed providers within Centra Health. Centra Health services a population of 600,000 community members with 70 different outpatient and specialty practices.

Centra offers primary care and specialty services across Central and Southern Virginia—from Lynchburg to Danville, Farmville, Moneta, and Bedford. CMG includes family practices, specialists, and surgeons in fields such as cardiology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, urology, and more.

CMG is also home to the Lynchburg Family Medicine Residency, a training program for future family physicians, many of whom hold academic appointments with institutions like UVA, VCU, VCOM, and Liberty University.

Grow with a Health System that Invests in You

At Centra Medical Group, we’re building a culture where Advanced Practice Providers thrive. Through our partnership with ThriveAP—the nation’s leading transition-to-practice program—new graduate NPs and PAs receive a year of structured clinical education, mentorship, and peer learning to accelerate confidence and readiness.

Join Centra Medical Group and grow with an organization that invests in your professional and long-term success. ThriveAP provides Family Medicine NPs and PAs with a structured transition-to-practice experience focused on clinical readiness, continuity of care, and long-term patient relationship building across diverse populations.

What We Offer

  • Competitive, transparent compensation represents a mix of base, hourly excess, and incentive pay.
  • Student loan reimbursement
  • Relocation
  • CME allowance
  • Centra is a not-for-profit health system; many of our providers are participating in the federal PSLF program.
  • Short term disability automatically enrolled.
  • 403(b) and 457(b) tax deferred savings plan; Immediate vested employer contribution match
  • Comprehensive benefits package that includes health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, and more.

Why Farmville?

The Town of Farmville is a destination for tourism, recreation, retirement, and trade not only because of its attention to infrastructure but also because of its attention to its beauty. It is attractive to those who live, work or visit here.

Its rich history and status as a center of trade and commerce are preserved and enhanced by its dedication to architectural integrity and improvement of the natural environment through a system of parks, green spaces, walking trails, and waterways.

New growth and development of the Town incorporate the concepts of history, civic pride, and natural beauty. The Town supports a thriving downtown and five shopping centers.

Farmville is "open for business" and receptive to innovation, yet mindful of the responsibility to preserve its historic and natural resources for future generations.

As the hub of economic activity in the region, Farmville maintains its identity as a diverse academic village, a center for culture, and a family-friendly town.

Key Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive primary and urgent care to a diverse patient panel including pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients. Collaborate within a large healthcare network to improve community wellness and lifestyle.

Requirements

Requires a doctoral degree from an accredited Physician Assistant school and current licensure by the State of Virginia. ACLS certification is required for specific program alignments.

Qualifications

Education
Doctoral or professional degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Patient CarePediatric CareGeriatric CareEMR Proficiency

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Urgent Care Physician Assistant at Centra Medical Group a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 10% in Urgent Care (PA) — ranked against 367 active Urgent Care (PA) listings on WeekdayDoc.

Urgent Care — Physician Assistant Career Context

Of the 50 active Urgent Care listings this role was benchmarked against, 6% are remote, 74% have no call, 68% require no weekends.

Urgent Care pay on WeekdayDoc is up 9.5% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Virginia is 101.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.1% of Virginia clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Salary Distribution50 jobs · 40 employers

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks40 jobs

401k / retirement match
88% this job
CME allowance
80% this job
Sign-on bonus
55%
Relocation assistance
23% this job
Loan repayment
20% this job

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Work-life snapshot

median 4.2this job 6.6
Among the best 10% of Urgent Care (PA) listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 367 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Farmville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$287k
Typical market rent
$1,298/mo
Residents’ average commute
19 min
State income tax
Up to 5.8%
Sources & methodology

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

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

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About Centra Medical Group

Hospitals and Health Care
Lynchburg, VA
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Student Loan Reimbursement
Relocation Assistance
CME Allowance
Short Term Disability
403(b) with match
457(b) with match
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance