Family Medicine Physician
- Freedom, CA
- Shareholder Track
- Listed
$288,000 – $320,000 a yearPay stated in the posting
- Loan repayment
- Relocation paid
- Production bonus
- Remote or telemedicine
- Specialty
- Family Medicine
- Employment
- Shareholder Track
About this job
Outpatient family medicine physician role with Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group in Watsonville, CA, with team-based care alongside NPs and PAs. The posting emphasises a 4-day full-time schedule and a starting salary of $280,000 - $335,000 with a $200,000 forgivable loan.
- Setting
- Multi-specialty medical group of over 2,100 physicians in 40+ specialties, affiliated with Palo Alto Medical Foundation, a not-for-profit organization.
- The work
- Care for a patient panel with NP and PA support and a virtual inbasket team; remote video visits available. Leadership, committee and quality improvement work available.
- Schedule
- 4 days a week for full time; part-time available, with flexible patient visit duration.
- Call
- Light call, all virtual, with calls screened first through an RN, NPs and PAs.
- Patients
- Paneled primary care patients.
- What the pay includes
- Starting salary $280,000 - $335,000 based on experience, guaranteed for two years with production bonus; $200,000 forgivable loan; signing bonuses; residency stipend of $1,000/month for 12 months; relocation allowance.
- Requirements
- Board Certified or Board Eligible in Family Medicine.
- Benefits named
- 401K, cash-balance retirement plan, HSA, PSLF eligible, shareholder eligibility after two years, onboarding and mentorship program.
How this pay compares
The low end of this posting, $288,000, sits above 30 of 51 H-1B wage filings for family medicine roles in California (59%). The offered-wage median there is $277,325, the middle half $246,860 to $300,000.
The low end of this posting, $288,000, sits above 5 of 10 green-card filings for family medicine roles in California (50%). The offered-wage median there is $270,500, the middle half $250,000 to $317,657.
No five clinicians have shared their pay for family medicine roles at this place yet. The family medicine page shows what there is.
About this posting
Posted by Sutter Health as “Physician, Family Medicine (Watsonville, CA)”, job 2026-5340. First seen here , last checked . Applying there yourself is fine; a recruiter can then no longer represent you for this job.
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