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General Internal Medicine Physicians
Diagnose and provide nonsurgical treatment for a wide range of diseases and injuries of internal organ systems. Provide care mainly for adults and adolescents, and are based primarily in an outpatient care setting.
What a general internal medicine physician does
Become a general internal medicine physician
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good general internal medicine physician
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Reading work related information.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
- Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Average hourly rate is $163 per hour with an average salary of $259,500 per year.
- Half of workers earn between $93 and $188 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $50,400 and $333,700 per year.
- 64% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The average hourly rate for part-time workers is $163 per hour with an average salary of $195,400 per year.
General Internal Medicine Physician job outlook
- There are 604 workers in this occupation in Washington.
- There are 39 openings per year in this occupation in Washington.
Multiple Jobs
- 3% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 13% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.