How to hire an family practice md

How to hire an family practice md, step by step

Here's a step-by-step family practice md hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write an family practice md job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new family practice md
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you start hiring an family practice md, identify what type of worker you actually need. Certain positions might call for a full-time employee, while others can be done by a part-time worker or contractor.

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   Hiring the perfect family practice md also involves considering the ideal background you'd like them to have. Depending on what industry or field they have experience in, they'll bring different skills to the job. It's also important to consider what levels of seniority and education the job requires and what kind of salary such a candidate would likely demand.

   Here's a comparison of family practice md salaries for various roles:

   Type of Family Practice MD	Description	Hourly rate
   Family Practice MD	Physicians and surgeons diagnose and treat injuries or illnesses. Physicians examine patients; take medical histories; prescribe medications; and order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests... Show more	$76-292
   Doctor	A doctor is a medical expert who diagnoses and treats illnesses and injuries, often specializing in particular areas. Their responsibilities revolve around conducting initial interviews and examinations, studying a patient's medical history and laboratory results, providing consultations and care advice, prescribing medication, and referring patients to specialists when necessary... Show more	$50-196
   MD	A Doctor of Medicine or MD is the designation of a person who completed medical education. Generally, MDs focus on the treatment of conditions in need of medication... Show more	$12-107

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Patients
   • Family Practice
   • Primary Care
   • EMR
   • Internal Medicine
   • Patient Care
   • Private Practice
   • Nursing Home
   • Exam Rooms
   • EKG
   • Injections
   • Medical Care
   • Vital Signs
   • Chronic Disease

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   Responsibilities:

   • Manage conditions including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, hypothyroidism, asthma, and GERD.
   • Perform history and physical exams of patients requiring primary care services including preventative, acute and chronic disease management.
   • Provide complete primary, preventative and integrative care to patients including simple in-office procedures as appropriate.
   • Experience with electronic medical records and the coordination and distribution of professional documents in accordance to HIPAA regulations.
   • Train and manage new interns/ volunteers assisting with the evidence-based hypertension management program.

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3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in the family practice md job description is a good way to get more applicants. An family practice md salary can be affected by several factors, such as the location of the job, the level of experience, education, certifications, and the employer's prestige.

   For example, the average salary for an family practice md in Maine may be lower than in Pennsylvania, and an entry-level engineer typically earns less than a senior-level family practice md. Additionally, an family practice md with lots of experience in the field may command a higher salary as a result.

   Average family practice md salary

   $312,358yearly

   $150.17 hourly rate

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   Entry-level family practice md salary

   $160,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 15, 2025

   Average family practice md salary by state

   Rank	State	Avg. salary	Hourly rate
   1	Wisconsin	$342,461	$165
   2	Nebraska	$322,274	$155
   3	Pennsylvania	$317,208	$153
   4	Iowa	$296,702	$143
   5	Illinois	$288,961	$139
   6	Colorado	$280,947	$135
   7	Ohio	$280,457	$135
   8	Washington	$279,899	$135
   9	Missouri	$277,495	$133
   10	Connecticut	$265,312	$128
   11	California	$261,869	$126
   12	Georgia	$260,498	$125
   13	Rhode Island	$255,924	$123
   14	Maryland	$246,533	$119
   15	South Carolina	$245,429	$118
   16	Florida	$239,861	$115
   17	North Carolina	$239,687	$115
   18	Wyoming	$237,753	$114
   19	Massachusetts	$227,349	$109
   20	Louisiana	$224,069	$108

   Average family practice md salary by company

   Company

   Rank	Company	Average salary	Hourly rate	Job openings
   1	Allina Health	$469,350	$225.65	67
   2	Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc.	$383,793	$184.52	101
   3	Tidelands Health	$365,641	$175.79	11
   4	UNC Health Care	$328,877	$158.11	256
   5	Catholic Health Initiatives - Colorado	$320,239	$153.96	210
   6	Integrity Locums	$318,040	$152.90	62
   7	The Medicus Firm	$314,270	$151.09	20
   8	Clinical Management Consultants	$281,194	$135.19
   9	Presbyterian	$271,840	$130.69	57
   10	Fair Haven Community Health Care	$250,378	$120.37	6
   11	Jackson Physician Search	$247,214	$118.85	13
   12	National Medical Association	$239,857	$115.32
   13	Southcoast Health	$218,701	$105.14	11
   14	Providence Community Health Centers	$191,173	$91.91	2
   15	Healthpoint	$183,032	$88.00	11
   16	HealthTrust	$157,236	$75.59	6
   17	Universal Health Services	$150,270	$72.25	307

4. Writing an family practice md job description

   An family practice md job description should include a summary of the role, required skills, and a list of responsibilities. It's also good to include a salary range and the first name of the hiring manager. Below, you can find an example of an family practice md job description:

   Family practice md job description example

   Gundersen Health System is looking for BC/BE Family Medicine Physician to join a collegial team of 10 physicians and 4 Advanced Practice Clinicians at our Multispecialty Clinic in Onalaska, WI.
   
   Practice Highlights:• Integrated Behavioral Health Therapist• Phone call coverage from home (week-long call, approx. 4-5 weeks/year)• 4 -day work week is possible • 15-18 patients per day• EMR - Epic throughout our entire system• 24-hour specialty consultations available• Practice with high pediatric volumes possible, no nursing home coverage
   
   Gundersen is a physician-led, integrated health system with 900+ clinicians and 8,000+ total employees serving over 650,000 lives in western Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, and northeastern Iowa. We are a teaching hospital, with excellent support for research. Gundersen offers a competitive salary, loan forgiveness, generous benefits, including CME time and monetary allowance, retirement plan and more. Gundersen was the first known health system in the U.S. to offset 100% of our fossil fuel energy use through locally generated energy.
   Community:
   Onalaska is a suburb to La Crosse, WI. The metropolitan statistical area population is 133,665. Onalaska is surrounded by gorgeous bluffs and the river, which offers exceptional recreational activities. The area also offers shopping, dining, arts & entertainment.
   
   Our communities are safe with excellent public and parochial K-12 schools. La Crosse also offers higher education's opportunities at UW-La Crosse, Viterbo University, and Western Technical College.
   
   Must have completed an accredited graduate medical training program and be board certified or eligible within the area of medicine stated. In addition, must have or be able to obtain a license to practice in our multi-state region with no restrictions or limitations. Medical staff in our system will supervise advanced practice clinicians. Medical staff may need to provide outreach service as part of their role in the system. Teaching students, residents, fellows or clinical staff is cornerstone to our Medical Education philosophy and an expectation of all medical staff.
   
   Equal Opportunity Employer

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5. Post your job

   There are a few common ways to find family practice mds for your business:

   • Promoting internally or recruiting from your existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals from friends, family members, and current employees.
   • Attend job fairs at local colleges to meet candidates with the right educational background.
   • Use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to recruit passive job-seekers.

   To find family practice md candidates, you can consider the following options:

   • Post your job opening on Zippia or other job search websites.
   • Use niche websites that focus on engineering and technology jobs, such as healthcarejobsite, health jobs nationwide, hospitalcareers, medreps.com.
   • Post your job on free job posting websites.

6. Interview candidates

   Your first interview with family practice md candidates should focus on their interest in the role and background experience. As the hiring process goes on, you can learn more about how they'd fit into the company culture in later rounds of interviews.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents. You can move on to the technical interview if a candidate is good enough for the next step.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new family practice md

   Once you've found the family practice md candidate you'd like to hire, it's time to write an offer letter. This should include an explicit job offer that includes the salary and the details of any other perks. Qualified candidates might be looking at multiple positions, so your offer must be competitive if you like the candidate. Also, be prepared for a negotiation stage, as candidates may way want to tweak the details of your initial offer. Once you've settled on these details, you can draft a contract to formalize your agreement.

   You should also follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that you've filled the position.

   To prepare for the new family practice md first day, you should share an onboarding schedule with them that covers their first period on the job. You should also quickly complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Finally, Human Resources must ensure a new employee file is created for internal record keeping.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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