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.

The Role

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.

What You’ll Do

• 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.
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• 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
  
  

Why Anchor Health

• 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
  
  

Benefits

• 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
  
  

Minimum Requirements

• MD or DO licensure in Connecticut
• Board certification in MedPeds, 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 ***enter non-discrimination here
• Ability to maintain a trauma-informed space.
  
  

Preferred Requirements

• 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)