Associate Medical Director
CenterWell Senior Primary Care
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Columbia • South Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $270,800 - $378,800 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first
- The Associate Medical Director (AMD) is an instrumental clinical leader of our primary care team, combining clinical practice with leadership and operational management to ensure high-quality patient care and alignment with Value-Based Care (VBC) principles
- This market/center-specific role requires flexibility to adapt responsibilities as needed and demands a unique blend of clinical management, financial/business acumen, and strategic partnership to optimize patient care and business outcomes.
- Understand organizational & market priorities, trends, and goals, to develop a clinical strategy to advance clinical talent and performance
- Interview, hire, and supervise clinical teams to staff and develop a high-quality clinical team with strong engagement, patient-first culture, and talent retention
- Closely engage and communicate with clinicians and care teams, conducting weekly onsite center visits, holding regular individual 1:1s and clinician pod meetings, and actively participating in monthly leadership meetings
- Deliver leading clinical performance in patient experience, quality of care, clinical outcomes, and avoidable utilization
- Spend 20–50% of time on direct patient care, with remaining time dedicated to administrative responsibilities.
- Collaborate with operational leaders and Shared Services partners to align on clinical and operational goals, strategic planning, and budgeting.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited medical school (MD/DO) with a current medical license, maintaining licensure requirements of the state of jurisdiction
- Board Certification in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine or Geriatric Medicine
- Minimum five years of experience in outpatient practice, with clinical experience in primary care, senior health, and value-based care (VBC)
- Minimum three years of experience successfully leading clinicians in a leadership role with demonstrated impact on clinician talent, culture, and performance, and effective partnership with operations and supporting teams
- Skilled in use of clinical technology platforms and resources, such as EMR systems (e.g. athenahealth, Epic, eClinicalWorks), voice documentation tools (e.g. Dragon, Abridge), and clinical evidence & pathway resources (e.g. UpToDate).
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave)
- short-term and long-term disability
- life insurance and many other opportunities.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
clinical managementfinancial acumenstrategic planningpatient carevalue-based careoutpatient practiceprimary caresenior healthleadershiptalent retention
Soft skills
communicationteam engagementflexibilitystrategic partnershiporganizational awarenesscollaborationimpact on cultureperformance managementadministrative skillspatient-first culture
Certifications
MDDOBoard Certification in Family MedicineBoard Certification in Internal MedicineBoard Certification in Geriatric Medicine