Physician-internist vs medical staff physician

The differences between physician-internists and medical staff physicians can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 2-4 years to become both a physician-internist and a medical staff physician. Additionally, a medical staff physician has an average salary of $206,686, which is higher than the $204,979 average annual salary of a physician-internist.

The top three skills for a physician-internist include urgent care, patient care and private practice. The most important skills for a medical staff physician are patients, healthcare, and patient care.

Physician-internist vs medical staff physician overview

	Physician-Internist	Medical Staff Physician
Yearly salary	$204,979	$206,686
Hourly rate	$98.55	$99.37
Growth rate	7%	7%
Number of jobs	38,382	150,445
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Doctoral Degree, 35%	Bachelor's Degree, 32%
Average age	48	48
Years of experience	4	4

Physician-internist vs medical staff physician salary

Physician-internists and medical staff physicians have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Physician-Internist	Medical Staff Physician
Average salary	$204,979	$206,686
Salary range	Between $103,000 And $407,000	Between $128,000 And $332,000
Highest paying City	Sumter, SC	Fargo, ND
Highest paying state	North Dakota	Vermont
Best paying company	Memorial Hospital of Texas County	Union Hospital of Cecil County
Best paying industry	Health Care	Health Care

Differences between physician-internist and medical staff physician education

There are a few differences between a physician-internist and a medical staff physician in terms of educational background:

	Physician-Internist	Medical Staff Physician
Most common degree	Doctoral Degree, 35%	Bachelor's Degree, 32%
Most common major	Medicine	Medicine
Most common college	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	Duke University

Physician-internist vs medical staff physician demographics

Here are the differences between physician-internists' and medical staff physicians' demographics:

	Physician-Internist	Medical Staff Physician
Average age	48	48
Gender ratio	Male, 68.4% Female, 31.6%	Male, 38.7% Female, 61.3%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 3.9% Unknown, 4.1% Hispanic or Latino, 6.5% Asian, 20.4% White, 64.9% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%	Black or African American, 5.3% Unknown, 4.5% Hispanic or Latino, 9.8% Asian, 19.0% White, 61.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.2%
LGBT Percentage	13%	13%

Differences between physician-internist and medical staff physician duties and responsibilities

Physician-internist example responsibilities.

Manage complicated and often difficult to control chronic medical conditions in patients with limit resources.
Provide overall quality prenatal health care, gynecological services, patient triage, refer patients with complications, provide patient education service
Collect and dispatch blood samples according to national malaria eradication and sputum samples for national tuberculosis control program.

Medical staff physician example responsibilities.

Manage catheters and dress wounds.
Assist nursing leadership with ICU and telemetry bed triage at times of high census.
Experience with Medicare and Medicaid regulations, billing requirements, collections, and HIPAA and compliance rules.Experience working with informational systems.
Prepare necessary correspondence that is related to medical records of patients including sending lab results to outside physicians/hospitals.
Provide overall quality prenatal health care, gynecological services, patient triage, refer patients with complications, provide patient education service
Determine and provide medication, dosage and schedule having patient's condition and allergies.

Physician-internist vs medical staff physician skills

Common physician-internist skills

Urgent Care, 57%
Patient Care, 19%
Private Practice, 9%
Medical Care, 5%
Diabetes, 4%
EKG, 2%

Common medical staff physician skills

Patients, 37%
Healthcare, 15%
Patient Care, 9%
Primary Care, 5%
Internal Medicine, 5%
Epic, 4%

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