About this role

Your future role at a glance

Location: Milwaukee, WI

Facility Name: Columbia St. Mary's Family Health Center

Schedule: Full-Time

$4,000 CME allowance

Malpractice coverage with tail

This job location is not currently located in a Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) and/or Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/P) Shortage Designation Type.

How you’ll make an impact in this role

- Shape the Future of Medicine: Take a foundational role in building and launching a new residency program, directly influencing the administrative operations and structural framework of the ambulatory clinical training site.
- Lead Ambulatory Training: Design, develop, and lead clinical curriculum initiatives across ambulatory, hospitalist, and GME programs, ensuring the highest standards of medical education.
- Mentor the Next Generation: Serve as a premier role model, mentor, and clinical educator for residents, fostering a culture of academic excellence, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
- Deliver Exemplary Care: Manage your own longitudinal patient panel while teaching residents in the clinic setting, demonstrating top-tier diagnostic acumen and interpersonal clinical skills.
- Drive Academic & ACGME Success: Collaborate directly with program leadership to maintain alignment with ACGME accreditation standards, while actively participating in scholarly activities and research.

About the Facility

Ascension Milwaukee Hospitals represent the heart of our Wisconsin network, featuring seven owned hospitals with an average size of 250–300 beds and over 40 clinic sites of care. As a premier teaching destination, our hospitals are recognized for renowned service lines in cardiology, neuroscience, oncology, and behavioral health. When you join our GME faculty, you join a supportive, mission-driven community committed to providing personalized, high-quality care to all, especially those most vulnerable.

Why Physicians Choose Milwaukee

Ideally located on the shores of Lake Michigan just 90 miles north of Chicago, Milwaukee is a "Gamma Global City" that offers big-city amenities with small-town convenience.

- Professional Sports & Culture: Home to the Bucks, Brewers, and Packers, alongside the world-class Milwaukee Art Museum and the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts.
- Outdoor & Family Life: Enjoy boating and sailing on Lake Michigan, an extensive county park system, a top-tier zoo, and interactive spots like Discovery World.
- Festivals & Food: Experience Summerfest—the worlds largest music festival—and a diverse, world-class culinary scene that satisfies every palate.
- Quality of Life: A culturally diverse, family-oriented community with a high quality of life and a wide range of residential options.

Why Physicians Choose Ascension

- Clinician-Led Culture: Experience a collaborative academic environment where physician engagement is recognized as the key driver of clinical and educational excellence.
- Significant Professional Track: Benefit from clear career advancement, leadership training, and competitive faculty wages within a stable national framework.
- National Reach, Local Autonomy: Collaborate with over 7,000 providers and shared best practices across 1,900 sites of care nationwide.
- Mission-Centered Care: Join a team that answers a high calling—delivering compassionate, personalized healthcare rooted in genuine service.

What minimum requirements you’ll need

Licensure / Certification / Registration:

- Physician MD/DO credentialed from the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board obtained prior to hire date or job transfer date required.
- Advanced Life Support preferred. American Heart Association or American Red Cross accepted.

Education:

- Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO) required.

Benefits that help you thrive

- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage and HSA/FSA options

- Financial security & retirement: employer-matched 403(b), planning and hardship resources, disability and life insurance

- Time to recharge: pro-rated paid time off (PTO) and holidays

- Career growth: Ascension-paid tuition (Vocare), reimbursement, ongoing professional development and online learning

- Emotional well-being: Employee Assistance Program, counseling and peer support, spiritual care and stress management resources

- Family support: parental leave, adoption assistance and family benefits

- Other benefits: optional legal and pet insurance, transportation savings and more

*Benefit options and eligibility vary by position, scheduled hours and location. Benefits are subject to change at any time. Your recruiter will provide the most up-to-date details during the hiring process.

Life at Ascension: Where purpose meets opportunity

Ascension Wisconsin has been providing rewarding careers to healthcare professionals since 1848. Operating a network of hospitals, clinics and sites of care from Racine to Appleton, you will find opportunities that allow you to create a career path you'll love, all while delivering innovative care to the communities we serve.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of thousands of associates delivering compassionate, personalized care across hospitals, clinics and senior living communities.

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you. At Ascension, you are part of a bigger story of care.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Ascension will provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, genetic information, carrier status or any other legally protected status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

For further information, view the EEO Know Your Rights (English) poster or EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish) poster.

As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.

Pay Non-Discrimination Notice

Please note that Ascension will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Ascension will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.