Are you looking for a primary care job in Atlanta, GA? Or perhaps you’re already here and just looking for a new opportunity?
As a concierge medicine practice with an office in the Atlanta area, we’ve hired for a variety of primary care roles, including internal medicine physicians, family medicine physicians, nurses, health coaches, patient services representatives, and more.
And we know it can be difficult to decide where to start your search. You could take your primary care career in several directions.
While this blog is focused specifically on physician jobs in Atlanta, we all know healthcare is a team effort. If a healthcare provider is looking for physicians, they are also probably looking for nurses and other talented healthcare professionals.
This blog could easily serve as a solid starting point for nurses, health coaches, and other healthcare professionals exploring a career switch.
To help you start, we’ve put together this list of employers in the Atlanta area that could be right for your next primary care move.
You’ll explore three major categories:
This is not an exhaustive list. These practices could be in various stages of active hiring. However, we hope this blog will provide helpful information as you get started in your search.
Emory is the biggest healthcare brand in the Atlanta area. However, there are a handful of other major hospitals.
As the largest healthcare provider in the Atlanta area, Emory Healthcare operates 10 hospitals. At last check, they listed 320 primary care physicians at 161 locations.
Many locations are private practices in the Emory Healthcare network, such as GA Internal Medicine in Duluth, Emory Family Medicine in Dunwoody, or One Medical in Buckhead.
Learn more about Emory Healthcare.
Piedmont operates 16 hospitals throughout the state, including a handful in the Atlanta metro area. They employ more than 230 family medicine and internal medicine physicians at more than 65 primary care locations.
Northside Hospital operates five hospitals in the state, including in Atlanta, Canton, Duluth, Cumming, and Lawrenceville.
They also have more than 40 affiliated primary care practices throughout the state, such as the Center for Preventive Medicine in Atlanta or Gwinnett Family Medical Care in Snellville.
Learn more about Northside Hospital.
Wellstar has 11 hospitals in the Atlanta metro area, including the flagship Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center in the heart of downtown.
In addition, they have numerous affiliated primary care practices, some of which are private practices like American Family Care in Atlanta and others that operate under the Wellstar Urgent Care brand.
While many primary care practices in the Atlanta area are affiliated with one of the above healthcare systems, there are also several independent practices.
North Atlanta Primary Care employs more than 70 primary care physicians and 200 medical staff members at 16 offices in the North Atlanta area.
Learn more about North Atlanta Primary Care.
Piedmont Internal Medicine has 12 physicians, two PAs, and two NPs at two offices in the Atlanta area.
Learn more about Piedmont Internal Medicine.
Gwinnett Clinic employs 16 primary care physicians and five nurse practitioners at 16 offices located in Gwinnett and North Atlanta.
Learn more about Gwinnett Clinic here.
As a major metropolitan area, Atlanta has plenty of concierge medicine practices. Here are a few of the most well-established practices that could be hiring for concierge medicine physician jobs in Atlanta.
We have two family practice doctors in Sandy Springs — Dr. Rob Norris and Dr. Jennifer Tutt. Dr. Tutt started with us in January 2023 and is expected to start taking new patients in late February. Dr. Rakesh Sarma is an internal medicine physician who will join PartnerMD Sandy Springs in late February, too.
We look for physicians eager to provide top-notch care to all their patients, and we’re also always looking for outstanding nurses, patient services representatives, health coaches, and more.
Learn more about becoming a concierge doctor at PartnerMD here. Other healthcare professionals, check out our Careers page for open positions.
MDVIP lists 13 internal medicine doctors in the Atlanta area, although they have many more as you expand farther outside the city. These doctors or offices operate independently of each other.
They have seven internal medicine doctors who practice out of their office in Sandy Springs.
Personalized Primary Care Atlanta has two internal medicine doctors – Dr. Juliet Mavromatis and Dr. Phyllis Tong. Their office is north of downtown Atlanta off I-85 at the N Druid Hills Rd exit.
If you’re reading this article, you either already live somewhere in the Atlanta metro area, or you are planning a move to the area.
If you’re exploring the Atlanta area as your new home, here are a few helpful resources to check out.
Now that you have a starting point, think about what you want from an internal medicine job or family medicine job in Atlanta. Here are a few questions to ask yourself:
As a leading concierge practice, we’d recommend giving concierge medicine a look. There are several benefits of practicing concierge medicine.
The biggest benefit is that with smaller panels and more time with your patients, you can practice medicine the way you’ve always wanted – with the luxury of providing excellent care for every patient.