Traveling Family Medicine Physician

SEARHC is a non-profit health consortium which serves the health interests of the residents of Southeast Alaska. We see our employees as our strongest assets. It is our priority to further their development and our organization by aiding in their professional advancement.

Working at SEARHC is more than a job, it’s a fulfilling career. We offer generous benefits, including retirement, paid time off, paid parental leave, health insurance, dental, and vision benefits, life insurance and long and short-term disability, and more.

Join SEARHC (SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium) and make a meaningful impact in some of Alaska's most remote and culturally rich communities. We are seeking a Rural Family Medicine Physician to serve as a clinical resource across SEARHC's village health system, providing comprehensive primary care, mentorship, and support for Community Health Aide Practitioners (CHA/Ps), Physician Assistants, and local care teams.

This unique role offers the opportunity to practice broad-spectrum rural medicine while traveling to communities throughout Southeast Alaska, including Kake, Angoon, Hoonah, Gustavus, and other villages as needed.

Why Choose SEARHC?

• As one of the largest Native-run healthcare organizations in the United States, SEARHC is committed to providing quality healthcare that honors the traditions of Alaska Native people and American Indians, while ensuring that advanced medical technologies are made accessible to all.

• The Vintage Park Campus is the newest medical facility serving the Juneau community. Centrally located in the Mendenhall Valley, Vintage Park offers a range of high-quality healthcare services.

• The new $300 million Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center opened in Sitka, April 2026 and in 2021 we opened the $30 million Wrangell Medical Center, located in Wrangell. With plans to build a third critical-access hospital in Haines. In addition to the dozens of established outpatient and traveling clinics throughout the region.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Salary range based on experience and 0.5 FTE: $146,882.00 - 161,535.00

• Financial incentives: $17,500 sign-on bonus, $12,500 relocation assistance

• Healthcare benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision coverage with flexible spending options (FSAs).

• Life insurance and wellness: Basic life insurance, Short & Long Term Disability, Accident - Critical Illness – Hospital Insurances, Identity & Fraud Protection, Legal Insurance, and Pet Insurance.

• Professional development: $3000 pre-tax annual CME allowance.

• Retirement planning: 401k plan with up to 5% employer match beginning on your date of hire, Roth and 457b plans.

Schedule and Work-Life Balance:

• Workweek: Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., with telemedicine included and four hours of administrative time. Typically scheduled in two-week village practice blocks each month.

• Travel schedule planned approximately three months in advance

• Call: Up to five call shifts per month while onsite and available for village support

Practice Details:

• Non-paneled position focused on supporting village patient populations

• Average daily volume of approximately 12-15 patients

• Typical appointment lengths of 30 minutes

• Clinical support varies by location and may include MAs, RNs, CHA/Ps, case managers, laboratory staff, and radiology personnel

• Typically 1-5 providers onsite depending on clinic location

• Meditech EMR with Dragon and DAX AI documentation tools

What Our Physicians Say:

“SEARHC shares in our vision of creating a medical practice that treats every patient with dignity and optimum care. We are eager to combine the strengths of our respective organizations and further enhance the services we can offer the Juneau community and greater southeast region. Our shared commitment to recruiting and retaining highly trained and compassionate medical professionals, while bringing increasingly advanced technologies and innovations to Juneau, helps us deliver on that vision.”

- Catherine Peimann, M.D.

Community and Lifestyle:

• Location: Scenic Juneau, AK offers stunning natural beauty with mountains, ocean, and glaciers right outside your door. With unmatched outdoor recreation year‑round: hiking, kayaking, fishing, skiing, and wildlife viewing.

  • Strong sense of community with a small town feel and a safe, supportive, family friendly environment with a mild coastal climate compared to much of Alaska, with temperate summers and winters.

• Affordability: Alaska has no state income tax — residents keep more of their paycheck compared to most other states.

• Education: Juneau’s education system is diverse, well-funded locally, and performs above the Alaska average in many academic areas.

  • The district is the fifth largest in Alaska and operates 14 public schools serving grades PreK–12, including six elementary schools, one middle school, one high school, an alternative high school, a PreK–8 Montessori school, and a K–8 charter school.

• Transportation: No road connects Juneau it to the rest of Alaska or the continental United States. Every visitor arrives by air through Juneau International Airport (JNU) or by sea via the Alaska Marine Highway System ferry network.

• Culture: Affluent cultural amenities and numerous community events featuring arts, music, festivals, and a rich Indigenous heritage.

For more information, please reach out to Provider Recruiter, Lyndse Clark: [email protected] or at 907-463-7531.

Key Essential Functions and Accountabilities

Provides comprehensive primary care including, but not limited to, diagnosis, treatment, minor procedures, coordination of care, referrals, preventative care, prenatal care and health maintenance to patients.

• Maintains accurate and timely documentation of services is accordance with SEARHC policy.

• Provides optimal patient experience using strong listening and communication skills.

• Builds long-term patient care relationships.

• Consults specialists as needed (i.e., AristaMD, ANMC providers, etc.).

• Provides medical services at facilities within the SEARHC care network and other facilities and locations listed in SEARHC’s compact and funding agreement with the Indian Health Services.

• Actively participates in SEARHC quality patient care initiatives and quality assurance programs.

• Actively participates in provider meetings, clinic meetings, and SEARHC medical staff functions.

• Serve as the primary collaborating physician or alternate for Physician Assistants serving in consortium by fulfilling state requirements

• Serve as the Physician of record/sponsoring physician for CHA/Ps and their standing orders.

• Regular travel amongst Village Clinic sites

• Duties as delegated by the Village Lead Clinician

Education, Certifications, and Licenses Required

• State of Alaska Medical License as an MD or DO
• Board-certified in Family Medicine
• Maintains active, unrestricted DEA registration.
• Maintains active SEARHC medical staff privileges
• ACLS
• PALS
• CALS or ATLS
• ALSO or BLSO
• NRP
• Able to be privileged in moderate sedation and POCUS

Experience Required

• Two years of experience as a practicing provider

• Additional clinical experience or training prior to practice as a licensed provider may be considered by the Medical Director of Primary Care Clinics to meet this minimum experience requirement.

Knowledge of

• Primary health care practices and principles
• Emergency care and protocols where appropriate including medical evacuations
• Common disease processes and pharmacology
• Standards of care, EMTALA, HIPAA, health care risk management principles, medical ethics, and medical malpractice principles

Skills in

• Effective communication skills and ability to interact with staff and patients
• Operating essential basic medical equipment
• Making proper assessments based upon history, exam, lab, x-ray, and other data
• Incorporating health promotion and health prevention activities into patient care
• Educating patients and family members about diagnoses, treatment plan alternatives, risks, options, and medications

• Providing high-quality health care services including the performance of medical procedures appropriate to the outpatient and emergency care setting

Ability to

• Promote teamwork and collaboration.
• Resolve conflict.
• Efficiently utilize electronic medical record and other clinically-required technology.
• Carefully listen to patients and family members.
• Clearly express ideas through oral and written communication.
• Efficiently analyze complex situations and solve problems.
• Effectively implement clinical program strategies.

Work Environment:

Half-time, M-F

Required Certifications:

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!