Pediatrician - Temple / Central Texas

Temple / Central Texas

General outpatient pediatrics for a young, healthy, insured population.

The Community

Before you rule out the location, Temple is worth a closer look. It's a growing Central Texas healthcare market where your income generally goes much further than it would in Austin. You can live in Temple, Belton, Salado, or Harker Heights, have a manageable commute, and still be within reach of Austin and Waco. The area offers lakes, outdoor recreation, affordable housing, and a stable military and medical economy. For someone who wants meaningful work without paying big-city prices or sitting in big-city traffic, it can be a very attractive quality-of-life move.

You are about an hour from the sexiest city in Texas. Here is the part people get backwards: if you actually lived in Austin, where would you go to get away? Live out here and Austin is your getaway — an easy hour up the road for the show, the restaurant, the game or the airport, and then you come home to lakes, hill country, quiet streets and a mortgage that makes sense. You get the city when you want it and you never have to live in the traffic.

Getting Here

Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS) – about 1 hour 15 minutes from the facility; Waco Regional (ACT) is about 50 minutes.

The Facility

You will practice at a large, full-service medical center in Central Texas — a teaching hospital campus with inpatient and outpatient services, on-site imaging, laboratory, pharmacy, and a broad multispecialty medical staff. Support is built in: scheduling, nursing, and ancillary teams handle the administrative load so your day stays clinical. The patient population is stable, insured, and largely young to middle-aged families and working adults.

36000 Darnall Loop, Fort Hood, TX 76544

Responsibilities

• Provide well-child, preventive, and acute outpatient care from newborn through adolescence
• Manage common chronic pediatric conditions including asthma, ADHD, and obesity
• Perform developmental screening and immunization management
• Counsel families and coordinate specialty referrals
• Document encounters in the electronic health record

Qualifications

• Active, unrestricted U.S. medical license in any state — Texas licensure is not required
• Board certified in Pediatrics (ABP or AOBP)
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited pediatrics residency
• One year of pediatric practice within the last three years

Schedule

Shifts are scheduled between 0530 and 2230, normally eight to twelve hours, per a coverage schedule published 90 days in advance. The facility operates 24/7, so the rotation includes an average of one to two weekends per month and federally recognized holidays. On-call assignments are scheduled 30 days in advance and paid at a separate on-call rate, with call-back paid at the full hourly rate.

Relocation

A relocation allowance of up to $10,000 is available if your home of record is more than 120 miles from the facility.

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