Job Opportunities
Integrative Primary Care Physician (MD/DO) or Nurse Practitioner (NP)
Love primary care but tired of practicing it on a hamster wheel?
At Benton Integrative Medicine, we’re transforming healthcare by bringing together the best of conventional medicine, integrative thinking, and a whole-person approach to healing.
We believe primary care should be about more than managing symptoms, prescribing medications, and chasing normal lab results. It’s about knowing your patients, understanding their stories, preventing illness, and helping them live healthier, fuller lives.
Position Summary
We’re looking for an experienced, heart-centered MD, DO, or NP who genuinely loves primary care and wants the freedom to practice it with more time, curiosity, and connection. This is not a traditional functional medicine position. It’s an opportunity to practice excellent conventional primary care through an integrative and functional medicine lens. Our practice also offers specialized functional medicine services, but this position is focused on providing outstanding, relationship-based primary care to adults and children.
Core Requirements & Professional Approach
We’re seeking an ideal clinician who:
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Loves primary care and enjoys caring for patients across the lifespan, including children and adults.
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Has strong conventional medical training and experience managing acute and chronic conditions.
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Has prior education or clinical experience in integrative or functional medicine.
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Understands how nutrition, lifestyle, hormones, gut health, stress, and environmental factors influence health.
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Enjoys looking upstream to understand what contributes to illness while remaining grounded in evidence-based medicine.
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Appreciates the mind-body-spirit connection and the importance of emotional and nervous system health.
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Believes patients should be empowered partners in their healthcare decisions.
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Respects informed consent, patient autonomy, and individualized medical decision-making.
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Is confident, compassionate, curious, and comfortable practicing independently within their professional scope.
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Values collaboration, personal accountability, continued learning, and a little humor along the way.
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We want someone who is both an excellent clinician and a genuinely caring human being.
Our Philosophy: Primary Care Through an Integrative Lens
We believe the best medicine doesn’t require choosing between conventional and alternative approaches. Sometimes the right answer is a prescription. Sometimes it’s nutrition, sleep, movement, stress management, or identifying an overlooked contributor to illness. Often, it’s a thoughtful combination.
Our Approach - Three Principles
At BIM, we follow a three-step rhythm that sounds simple—but transforms lives:
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Deep Listening - Taking the time to understand the patient, not just the symptoms.
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Whole-Person Thinking - Considering physical health, lifestyle, nutrition, environment, emotional well-being, and the patient’s unique circumstances.
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Personalized, Evidence-Informed Care - Combining sound medical judgment, clinical experience, and integrative principles to create realistic, individualized care plans.
Key Responsibilities
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Provide comprehensive primary care to adult and pediatric patients in our direct primary care practice.
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Diagnose and manage acute illnesses and chronic medical conditions.
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Perform preventive visits, wellness examinations, and routine screenings.
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Manage medications, coordinate referrals, and provide continuity of care.
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Incorporate appropriate integrative and functional medicine principles into primary care visits.
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Counsel patients on nutrition, lifestyle, metabolic health, sleep, stress, and disease prevention.
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Order and interpret appropriate laboratory testing and imaging.
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Collaborate with our functional medicine clinicians when patients need more specialized evaluation or treatment.
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Maintain accurate, timely documentation and respond to patient portal communications.
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Participate in collaborative clinical discussions and ongoing professional development.
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Help patients take ownership of their health through education and shared decision-making.
Training, Mentorship & Professional Growth Opportunities
We believe clinicians should never stop learning. As part of our commitment to advancing preventive and integrative primary care, we plan to provide Longevity Medicine Fellowship training for clinicians joining our team.
This training will help deepen your understanding of:
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Longevity medicine and healthy aging.
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Prevention and early identification of chronic disease.
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Metabolic health and cardiometabolic risk reduction.
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Lifestyle medicine and personalized prevention.
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Evidence-informed strategies for improving healthspan.
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Integrating emerging longevity science into everyday primary care.
You’ll also have opportunities for mentorship and clinical collaboration with Dr. Benton, our functional medicine team, and continuing education in integrative medicine.
Our goal isn’t to turn every primary care clinician into a functional medicine specialist. It’s to elevate primary care by bringing a broader, more thoughtful perspective to everyday medicine.
Qualifications
Required:
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MD, DO, or Nurse Practitioner (NP) with an active North Carolina license or eligibility for licensure.
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Current board certification in an appropriate primary care specialty, or applicable NP national certification.
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Strong clinical experience in family medicine or primary care.
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Experience caring for adult and pediatric patients, or demonstrated competency and willingness to do so.
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Prior education or meaningful experience in integrative or functional medicine.
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Strong diagnostic and clinical decision-making skills.
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Excellent communication, documentation, and teamwork skills.
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Commitment to patient-centered, relationship-based primary care.
Preferred:
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Board certification in Family Medicine for MD/DO candidates or Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) certification for NP candidates.
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Several years of primary care clinical experience.
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Training through IFM, A4M, or comparable integrative medicine programs.
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Experience with direct primary care, concierge medicine, or membership-based care
Schedule & Work-Life Balance
We believe healthcare providers deserve the same attention to health and balance that we encourage in our patients.
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Office hours: 8:30 AM–4:30 PM Monday through Friday, with approximately two hours of dedicated administrative time daily for charting, portal messages, and patient care coordination.
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Additional benefits of our work structure include:
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Approximately 6–8 patient visits per day.
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Longer visits, generally 30–60 minutes.
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Dedicated time for documentation and patient communication.
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Three weeks of paid vacation.
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Paid holidays.
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One additional week annually of virtual clinic flexibility, subject to practice needs and licensing requirements.
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Light weekend on-call responsibilities.
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Supportive administrative and clinical staff.
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A collaborative, family-friendly work environment.
Our goal is simple: provide exceptional patient care while allowing our clinicians to have fulfilling lives outside the office.
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive salary for the Charlotte metropolitan area, based on credentials, clinical experience, integrative training, and selected work schedule.
Benefits
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Health, dental, and vision insurance.
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401(k).
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Flexible spending account.
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Disability benefits.
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Paid vacation and holidays.
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Continuing medical education support.
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Planned Longevity Medicine Fellowship training.
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Complimentary primary care through Benton Integrative Medicine.
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Employee discounts on supplements, laboratory testing, and wellness services.
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Opportunities for long-term professional growth.
Why Join Benton Integrative?
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Because you can love primary care again.
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You can practice excellent medicine without rushing through appointments.
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You can know your patients as people, not diagnoses.
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You can use conventional medicine while remaining curious about the bigger picture.
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You can have time to think, learn, and collaborate.
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And you can be part of a team that believes healthcare should empower patients rather than simply manage disease.
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We’re family-oriented, flexible, and fun, but we also hold high standards for clinical excellence, responsibility, and patient care.
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We take our work seriously without taking ourselves too seriously.
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If you’re an experienced MD, DO, or NP who loves primary care, believes in whole-person healing, and wants to practice medicine with more freedom, purpose, and connection, we’d love to meet you.
Please submit your resume resume and cover letter below describing your primary care experience, integrative medicine background, and what draws you to Benton Integrative Medicine. We look forward to meeting you!