Associate Dentist

Pathway Dental Group • Full-time • Santa Maria, California, United States • $250k - $500k / year • 1w ago

Too often you are stuck with a schedule of having to see four columns of patients at a time, with one assistant if you’re lucky, only to receive the scraps of leftover treatment the owner doctors do not want to do working through lunches with 12 hour days 5-6 days per week. Compensation is probably adjusted production, which never seems to pan out to be what you were promised as contracted fees and unexplainable “adjustments” are not discussed until they affect your paycheck. Sound familiar?

Have you lost the joy for practicing dentistry in your current working environment? Are you being told that the only option is to be micromanaged in a corporate DSO while providing subpar dentistry or take on insurmountable debt opening your own practice without any business experience?So were we. So we forged our own path and invite you to join us.

We are currently accepting applications for our next associate dentist to join our team in our Santa Maria and Lompoc locations. Our privately owned group of skilled doctors are as passionate about providing the best clinical care to our patients as they are about improving themselves professionally while enjoying our beautiful Central Coast area.

We aren’t in LA-and we like it that way. Though we are close enough to take a drive or a flight to the big city for the weekend and then return to communities where patients know you by name. Looking to buy a home but can’t swallow the $1.15M+ average mortgage required in larger cities in the state for a fixer upper? You can easily purchase a move in ready home in our area for half that price. Want to live by the water? In the wine country? More suburbia? We have all of those options available.

$150,000 salary sounds really nice initially as does the comfort of remaining on a per diem forever. How comfortable are you with that when you produce 20x that amount for a practice in a day and do not reap any of the financial benefits for your work? We don’t play that way. Our doctors are treated like owners and are compensated accordingly based on a percentage of what they generate. No funny business, no massaging of reports. And as a result, our doctors are making between $230,000-$450,000 annually working 3 1/2 days per week, no nights or weekends, with 4 weeks minimum vacation time while your emergency patients are covered for you. Oh and our “late” day of the week-we end at 5:00 pm. The rest of the week you are out by 4:00 pm and 1:00 on Fridays, if not earlier.

How is mentorship working out for you? Are you only finding out about your mistakes when you have a failure with other doctors who are throwing you under the bus to your patient, hoping to make themselves look better and take the patient from you? Mentorship for us is a verb-it’s something we live out each day as our doctors are collaborating with each other in a safe environment. They freely share information, takeaways from CE courses, and help each other avoid making the same mistakes they have. When everyone individually does better, the whole does better. No one is hoarding or stealing patients over here. Have a suggestion on a new material or instrument that will make everyone’s life easier and yield a better result for our patients? Let’s hear about it-don’t keep it to yourself.

Benefits? Obviously. Partnership opportunities? Definitely. We are in this for the long haul and take any new doctor addition very seriously. We are ready to back the right person with our other doctors, team and patients who are eager to hear why YOU are the missing link in our PDG family.

Ready to take the next step? Please provide your cover letter, resume and information about what makes YOU different than everyone else in the stack of templated Indeed resumes we have on our desk..

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $250,000.00 - $500,000.00 per year

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