Emergency Medicine | Graduates | Missouri & Kansas

The Opportunity

Your first attending job decides more than your income. It decides whether year one is spent consolidating what residency taught you, or discovering how much of it doesn't transfer. IHP staffs four community emergency departments across Missouri and Kansas — Kansas City, Blue Springs, Leavenworth and Wyandotte County — sized for exactly that transition: real acuity, real autonomy, and volumes between roughly 34 and 65 visits a day rather than the firehose you trained in.

We're opening these to 2027 graduates now because the strong ones commit early, and because we'd rather build a class than fill a gap.

What You'll Own

• A department of your own, sooner than at an academic center. Most of these sites run single physician coverage with APP support.
• A case mix that stretches you. Military and veteran populations, correctional medicine, behavioral health, and chest pain and stroke centers depending on the site.
• Escalation you can lean on while you find your footing. 24/7 anesthesia and critical care at the larger sites, ICUs on campus, established transfer relationships.
• Choice of department. Tell us what you want your first three years to look like and we'll match you to the site that fits, rather than the one with the gap.

Must-Haves

• Graduating from an ACGME-accredited Emergency Medicine residency in 2027
• ABEM board eligibility
• Missouri or Kansas license, or willingness to obtain one

Nice to Have

• Rotation experience in community or critical-access settings
• Interest in resident teaching — one of our sites pays a documented daily stipend for it
• Epic familiarity

What Working Here Is Actually Like

• Compensation discussed openly on the first call. You won't discover the number in round four.
• Malpractice and tail both covered. Ask every group you interview whether tail is included — a lot of them will say no, and it matters more than you think at this stage.
• Epic with Dragon. Charting closes out at the end of the shift, not at home at 11pm.
• Physician-owned and physician-managed since 2012. When you escalate a problem, it reaches a physician who still works clinical shifts.
• Not a locums agency. An ongoing program position with a named, stable team.
• Four departments to choose between
  , from a 400-bed hospital with subspecialty backup to an 80-bed single-coverage community ED.
• Licensure is not the obstacle it looks like. Missouri and Kansas both participate in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, so a license obtained for one is straightforward to extend to the other — useful if you want to pick up shifts across both states.

Straight Talk

Community emergency medicine means being the most qualified person in the building at 3am, often alone. In your first year that is genuinely hard. We staff departments where it's survivable and we won't pretend otherwise — talk to us in the fall of your PGY-3 year and we'll walk you through what each one actually demands.

About In hospital Physicians (IHP): IHP is a physician-owned and physician-managed group, headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and operating since 2012, running Emergency Medicine, Hospitalist, Intensivist and post-acute programs for acute-care hospitals, LTACHs and health systems across multiple states. IHP is not a locums agency; these are ongoing program positions with stable, named teams.