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With more than 25 years of industry-leading experience and expert consultants in your specialty, we have the best internist and family medicine jobs for you. Let us find you the perfect locums assignment, tailored to your career and life goals.
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Specialists for an empowered experience.
With a specialized team, you have expert support at every step, at all career phases, and across the entire process. Physicians look to Weatherby for best-in-class service for:
Malpractice insurance, including tail insurance
Competitive compensation and job availability
Credentialing and licensing assistance and fees
Planned and paid-for housing and travel
Work with experts in
primary care.
Discover a better way to practice medicine with locums. We make it happen.
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“Weatherby was very responsive. My recruiter was able to get me my first assignment within seven days, and it was a very enjoyable, quick, and efficient process.”
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“I love meeting new people and traveling to places I’ve never been. I did an assignment for the summer in Alaska, and on my weeks off, my family joined me, and we traveled all over the state.”
Dr. Natalie Owens-Sloan, InternistRead more
Partner with the best in the business.
It’s important to get the right help for locums, and nobody does locums better than we do. We ranked high across 8 agencies looking at 10 satisfaction factors:
#1 in friendly and responsive consultants
#2 in competitive compensation
#2 in job availability
*CHG Healthcare locum tenens awareness and perception survey, 2022
Live life on your terms. We can help with the details.
Weatherby Healthcare licensing experts understand the ins and outs of medical licensing. They collaborate with state boards to stay informed on parameters and deadlines while nurturing relationships with board contacts to help expedite the licensing process.
Hospitalist Dr. Matthew Dothager, who started working locum tenens right out of residency, describes the Weatherby credentialing and licensing team as “terrific.” He says, “I was getting licensed in two states at once, so they were able to really streamline the process, give me whatever information I needed in a timely manner, make sure all the deadlines were met to get the licenses in a fairly expedited manner, so I could get practicing.”
Explore the benefits of locums.
Like Dr. Dothager and other physicians who choose locums, you can achieve work/life balance and more.
Earn more money working locums vs permanent (on average, locums pay higher per hour)
Choose when you want an assignment and have more control over your schedule
Travel to different places and have freedom and flexibility for the lifestyle you want
Make a great impact serving communities where cardiologists are in high demand
Your FAQ about primary care.
The salary of an internist or family medicine physician can vary based on location, experience, and employer.
Review the median annual salary data for physicians from Medscape here.
Around 40% of physicians take on extra work to supplement their income. Of those who pursue side hustles, three areas are nearly tied as popular outlets for additional work and income:
Additional hours at their primary job as a physician (12%)
Medical moonlighting, including locum tenens (11%)
Other medical-related work (11%)
Resource: Weatherby salary report
According to the Medscape 2023 Physician Compensation Report, self-employed physicians — which includes locum tenens physicians — earn nearly 10% more than their employed counterparts. A Hanover Research study, conducted in partnership with CHG Healthcare, found that locum tenens physicians earn an average of $32.45 more per hour than full-time physicians in permanent positions.
Learn about general locum tenens amounts for internists and family medicine physicians at Locumstory also check out Weatherby's internist and family medicine jobs.
Resource: Weatherby Healthcare