Benefis Health System has an opportunity for a board-certified Internal Medicine physician to join the hospitalist group serving our academic community hospital in Great Falls, Montana. In addition to patient care, our mission is to provide education and supervision to internal medicine residents and medical students alike. Our robust system has a level II trauma designation and offers a wide variety of patients and pathology, collaborative teams, great specialty support, competitive compensation and benefits and scheduling that accommodates an adventurous Montana lifestyle!

Position Details

• Reasonable patient load with a target start-of-day census of 15 patients to allow for good medical practice and collaboration with colleagues

• 12 hr shifts, 7 on / 7 off block schedule, typically days, Wed-Tues, working in a team of 7-8 physicians and 2 nurse practitioners, in addition to medical students and residents. A swing/admitter physician (11a-9p) assists with afternoon admissions. Night coverage is provided by 1 physician and 1 APP from 7p-7a.

• Cover only 1 hospital with 349 acute care beds, admitting medical and surgical patients 18 years of age and older (adult), excluding obstetrical and providing medical coordination and inpatient utilization management for surgical patients

• Great access to specialists with over 400 providers on our medical staff representing 40 specialties, including: Neurosurgery, CVT Surgery, Interventional and General Cardiology, General Surgery, Urology, Neurology, Nephrology, Orthopedics, Inpatient Gastroenterology, Psychiatry, and more!

• Epic EMR

• Procedures optional with privileging and no ICU coverage required (intensivists are in house 24/7 for consultation)

• Oversight of Internal Medicine Residents is expected with additional opportunity to teach medical students.

• Internal Medicine BE/BC required

Why we stand out

• Stand alone, financially stable, not-for-profit health system led by a CEO with a 20+ year tenure

• Over 400 employed providers on medical staff

• Regional tertiary center with robust specialty support including neurosurgery, pulmonology, neurology, endocrinology, rheumatology, advanced gastroenterology, cardiothoracic, and more!

• Patient focused, quality community and regional medical care

• Epic electronic medical record and good clinical support staffing structures

How we support you

• Nationally competitive shift-based compensation structures with additional performance bonuses

• Generous sign-on / relocation bonus

• Annual $5,000 CME + $1,000 license/dues

• 5-7% retirement match + 457b program

• Paid malpractice + tail

• Physician wellness programs focused on personal and professional development

• Monthly meetings with highest-level physician and administrative leadership to bring ideas forward and solve issues

• J1 waiver sponsorships for specific specialties with established immigration council

Community Information: Great Falls is known as Montana's base camp for art and adventure with a city population of 70,000, and a draw of over 275,000 people in north central Montana. We have four genuine seasons, experience mild winters and enjoy blue skies over 300 days per year. Great Falls is a wonderful and safe place to raise a family, with nationally ranked public schools, endless activities, two accredited colleges, a brand-new nursing school, a biomedical rural health research institute, and a new not-for-profit medical school, TouroCOM Montana. Additionally, the Missouri River, a blue-ribbon fly-fishing destination, runs through the middle of our community with over 60 miles of paved recreational trails. Our local outdoor activities include camping, backpacking, hiking, biking, horseback riding, water and snow skiing, rock and ice climbing, boating, paddle boarding, kayaking, off-road motor sports, and hunting making our quality of life unrivaled in the Rocky Mountain West. Additionally, in 2023, Montana was named #1 state in the nation to practice medicine by WalletHub and in 2020, Great Falls ranked #10 for best cities to practice in after the pandemic by Business Insider.

Benefis Health System is one of Montana's largest tertiary centers holding a level II trauma designation. We are proud to be a standalone, financially stable community health system with strong, dedicated leadership focused on providing the best patient care in Montana, in addition to being awarded Becker's "Best Places To Work in Healthcare" for 7 years. Benefis covers 1/4 of the state's land mass, an area comparable in size to Kansas and can provide advanced care for everything except for burns and organ transplants. We offer great specialty support including neurosurgery, cardiothoracic and vascular, advanced gastroenterology, a regional cancer institute and a state-of-the-art emergency trauma department with a dedicated air ambulance program, including fixed and rotor wing.