Call burden, compensation structure, clinical autonomy, practice setting — EmployMD helps you map what actually matters to you before you sign. A structured career assessment built for physicians navigating a complex job market.
Founded by a physician who trained at Northwestern, built private practice, and worked across academic, hospital, and outpatient settings.
Most physicians navigate major career decisions without a structured way to evaluate what they actually need. EmployMD gives you that structure — before you start negotiating.
Most physicians start fielding offers before they've articulated what they actually need. Salary and location fill in for the harder questions.
Base salary is just the starting point. RVU structures, signing bonuses, PSLF eligibility, and benefits packages interact in ways that aren't obvious from an offer letter.
Every practice claims to offer work-life balance. There's no standard way to compare what that actually means day-to-day across different settings.
Hospital employment, private practice, and academic medicine look similar in a job posting. The differences only become obvious once you're inside.
Three steps. About thirty minutes. A career guide specific enough to actually use.
Answer focused questions about your specialty, training, lifestyle, and what you actually want from your work. Takes about 10–15 minutes.
AI analyzes your responses and CV to build a structured 14-factor Physician Preference Profile — a clear picture of what a good-fit role looks like for you specifically.
A personalized, PDF-ready guide covering practice setting fit, compensation framework, call burden, PSLF implications, employer questions to ask, and more.
Not a job board. Not a salary calculator. A structured framework for understanding what you actually need from a career — before the recruiter calls start.
A structured 14-factor analysis of what you actually need from a role — not just what you think you want. Compensation, call burden, clinical autonomy, practice setting, PSLF eligibility, and nine more dimensions, weighted by how strongly your answers signal each one.
A full written career guide grounded in your profile. Covers your top priorities in depth, gives you specific employer questions to ask, flags the red flags to watch for, and provides a framework for evaluating any offer — compensation structure included.
Upload your CV and EmployMD folds your clinical training, fellowship history, and practice experience into the analysis — so the guide reflects where you've actually been, not just where you want to go. Residents, fellows, and attending physicians all get a guide calibrated to their stage.
Physician compensation isn't just a number — it's a structure. Base salary, RVU productivity targets, signing bonuses, benefits packages, call pay, and PSLF eligibility all interact in ways that aren't obvious from an offer letter.
EmployMD walks you through the key components so you know what questions to ask, what to benchmark against, and how compensation tradeoffs interact with your other priorities. We reference MGMA data as the standard market benchmark. Deeper compensation comparison tools are on our roadmap as we grow.
I'm a psychiatrist. I trained at Northwestern, served as chief resident, spent time as academic faculty, built my own outpatient practice, and moonlighted across enough settings to understand what makes each one work — and what makes it quietly unsustainable.
What I kept seeing was the same pattern: colleagues making major career decisions with incomplete information and no real framework. They'd take a position based on salary and location, then spend the next two years realizing the fit was wrong. Not because they made bad decisions — but because nobody gave them the right questions to ask before they signed.
EmployMD started as a reflection exercise for myself. It became something I wanted every resident and early-career physician to have access to — a structured way to understand your own priorities before the recruiter calls start. We built specialty-aware assessments (including psychiatry and orthopedic surgery) because practice settings, call structures, and compensation models vary widely — and clarity matters in all of them.
Everything you need to know before getting started.