Primary Care Physician

Anchor Health is Connecticut’s leading health center for the LGBTQ+ community. We deliver high-quality, gender-affirming, trauma-informed medical, mental health, pharmacy, and supportive services to thousands of patients across the state and beyond. Our work advances LGBTQ+ health equity through care delivery, advocacy, education, research, and community partnership.

You will deliver evidence-based, patient-centered primary care to a diverse and cross-sectional patient population, including transgender and gender-diverse patients and people living with or at risk for HIV. This role is well-suited for a clinically strong provider who values efficiency, collaboration, and culturally responsive care—and who is deeply committed to serving LGBTQ+ communities.

• Provide excellent, science-based, trauma-informed primary care, gender-affirming care, HIV prevention/treatment, sexual health and urgent care to a diverse patient population through routine follow-up visits, annual physical exams, urgent/sick visits, pre-operative clearance visits, pelvic exams, office-based procedures and telehealth visits.
• Screens and address preventive health and behavioral health needs, including substance use, social determinants of health, and sexual health.
• Manage patient care, including ordering diagnostic testing, medications, referrals, InBasket messages and other interventions.
• Provide education to patients and their care partners.
• Participate in regular staff meetings, clinician meetings, and community outreach events.
• Participate in panel- and population-level health outcomes tracking and clinical QI.
• Provides supervision, consultation, and clinical support to APPs, RNs, and other clinical staff and trainees as needed.
• Participate in peer review, case conferences, and quality improvement initiatives.

• Strong primary care foundation with interest or experience in LGBTQ+ health and HIV care
• Commitment to evidence-based, trauma-informed, and equity-driven practice
• Ability to work efficiently in a collaborative, team-based care model
• Comfort caring for patients with complex medical and social needs

• Statewide reputation for excellence in LGBTQ+ and HIV care
• Truly interdisciplinary, on-site care teams including pharmacy, behavioral health, and case management
• Dedicated prior authorization and administrative support
• Robust resources for patients facing health and social inequities, including sliding-scale programs and in-house food and toiletry support
• Regular, protected provider education and clinical development

• Competitive salary
• Generous PTO
• Five dedicated CME days per year
• Annual CME budget of $5000/year
• Retirement 403 (b) plan with 4% employer match that is vested right away
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligibility
• License and board certification fee reimbursement

• MD or DO licensure in Connecticut
• Board certification in Med Peds, family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine and/or OB/Gyn
• BLS certification
  
  Experience working with and awareness of needs specific to the LGBTQ community.
• Ability to maintain work effectively and respectfully with colleagues, patients, vendors and community partners regardless of their
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• Ability to maintain a trauma-informed space.

• Spanish language fluency
• One year experience providing gender-affirming medical care
  -OR- 1-year experience providing STI treatment and HIV prevention/treatment services
• Experience treating substance use disorders
• AAHIVS Certification
• WPATH Certification
• Experience with Testopel, Nexplanon and/or Supprelin insertion and removal
• Basic procedural skills including I&D, suturing and trauma-informed pelvic exams
• IUD insertion experience +++
• POCUS (point-of-care ultrasound) experience
• One year of experience using Epic (electronic health record)