Yukon-Kuskokwim Healthcare Corporation

Bethel, AK

Alaska's most challenging—and rewarding—pediatric opportunity awaits.

Position Overview

Practice pediatrics as it was meant to be practiced: Monday-Friday 9-5, no call, no weekends, managing 1,200 complex chronic patients across Alaska's Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. You'll serve as the pediatric expert for 58 Alaska Native villages spanning 75,000 square miles, providing sophisticated subspecialty-level care with genuine clinical autonomy and intellectual challenge. First-year compensation exceeds $400,000 with loan repayment eligibility, while structured schedules prevent burnout common elsewhere. Bethel's isolation is real and demanding, but for physicians valuing meaningful work over metropolitan comfort, this delivers unparalleled professional satisfaction and measurable community impact.

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Healthcare System Overview

Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation stands as Alaska's largest tribally-driven healthcare system, serving 27,000+ Alaska Natives across 58 communities in a region the size of Oregon. Recently transformed by a $300 million expansion creating state-of-the-art facilities with traditional cultural design, YKHC combines Joint Commission-accredited excellence with genuine tribal self-determination. Here you'll practice comprehensive medicine that directly impacts entire villages, work alongside 200 Community Health Aides delivering care to the most remote communities in America, and join an organization investing $400+ million in infrastructure while honoring centuries-old healing wisdom—delivering healthcare as it was meant to be practiced.

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Community Overview

Serve 58 Alaska Native communities as their pediatric lifeline, practicing meaningful medicine with just 12 patients daily, no call, and no weekends. Your $400,000+ compensation builds wealth faster here than $500,000+ elsewhere—zero state income tax, zero property tax, and housing consuming just 7% of income. Trade metropolitan conveniences for authentic Yup'ik cultural immersion, the Northern Lights over tundra, and the deep satisfaction of work that genuinely matters. This is medicine at its most essential—not where it's comfortable, but where it counts.

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