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Optometrist - Competitive Base Compensation + Relo + Sign-On + Bonus Potential

Medical Associates

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Posted On 03/30/2025

Refreshed On 04/30/2025

Job Overview

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Medical Associates Clinic based out of Dubuque, Iowa is seeking a full-time **Optometrist** to join our growing and reputable MD/OD ophthalmology department. This is an outstanding opportunity to practice full-scope optometry in a supportive, technologically advanced, and collaborative environment.

New grads encouraged to apply!

Medical Associates Clinic Overview:

Medical Associates Clinic is a physician-owned multi-specialty group practice. Our 200+ providers and 900 health care professionals is dedicated to delivering exceptional care across Northeast Iowa, Southwest Wisconsin and Northwest Illinois. www.mahealthcare.com

Schedule & Practice Overview:

+ **Schedule:** Full-time, Monday through Friday

+ No weekend or on-call responsibilities

+ Work alongside experienced ophthalmologists and optometrists in a collaborative MD/OD model

Compensation:

+ **First Year Total Compensation $170,000 minimum,** + bonus potential + relocation assistance + excellent benefit package

Full-time providers will be eligible for a benefits package including:

+ Health Insurance and Dental Coverage with discounted premium rates for wellness program participation

+ 401k with immediate matching (50% on the dollar up to 7% of pay + additional annual Profit Sharing)

+ Medical & Dependent Care Flex Spending Accounts

+ Paid Time Off (accrue up to 29 days/year) + additional CEU time off and allowance

Practice Highlights:

+ Provide full-scope optometric care, including routine, medical, and post-surgical management

+ Deliver pre- and post-operative care in coordination with ophthalmologists

+ Access to state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment technologies, including:

+ Automated perimetry

+ OCT and OCT-angiography

+ Pentacam

+ Fundus photography

+ Endothelial cell counter

+ Fluorescein angiography

+ A-scan, B-scan, and UBM ultrasound

+ CT and MRI

+ Fully integrated EMR system

Department services include:

+ Comprehensive ophthalmology

+ Retina, glaucoma, cornea, pediatric and adult strabismus

+ Laser refractive surgery

+ Optical and contact lens services

Comprehensive team consists of 36 trained professionals including orthoptists, COMTs, CDOS, RNs, LPNs, COTS, COAs, CMAs and ABO-certified Opticians

We are committed to ongoing staff education and professional development.

Key Responsibilities

+ Perform comprehensive eye exams and vision assessments

+ Diagnose and manage a wide range of ocular conditions

+ Prescribe glasses, contact lenses, medications, and low vision aids

+ Identify ocular manifestations of systemic diseases (e.g., diabetes, hypertension)

+ Co-manage surgical patients with ophthalmologists

+ Collaborate with ophthalmic assistants, nurses, opticians, and other specialists

+ Educate patients and document care accurately in the EMR

Essential Functions:

+ Independent provider of eye care including external and internal exams, refraction, bio microscopy, indirect opthalmoscopy. Diagnose eye conditions such as glaucoma, cataracts, retinal disorders. Diagnose systemic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. Treat eye conditions such as near and far sightedness, astigmatism, presbyopia, glaucoma and external eye diseases. Prescribe eyeglasses, contact lenses, low vision aids and medicines to treat eye diseases.

+ Communicate effectively with patients, co-workers, and others. Promote patient wellness and provide patient education.

+ Oversee ophthalmic assistants and opticians as needed.

+ Collaborate with health care team according to plan of care. Document care provided, including but not limited to diagnosis, treatment and patient education.

+ Complete all other assigned projects and duties as needed according to department protocols.

Community Overview:

Dubuque, Iowa: Located along the scenic wooded bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, Dubuque is a beautiful city with one of the finest school systems in the country. The City has won many national awards including Kiplinger’s “10 Great Places to Live”, Forbes “Best Small Places for Business and Careers” and Forbes “#1 Best Small City to Raise a Family”. A full list of the awards can be found on the City of Dubuque website at: http://cityofdubuque.org/73/Awards

The Dubuque area offers something for everyone: two of the best down-hill ski resorts in the Midwest, miles of hiking, biking and cross country skiing trails, a talented local symphony, the Smithsonian-affiliated National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium, excellent community theatre, farmer’s market, boating, and extensive programs, sports and events for children. https://youcanbegreathere.com/ and www.traveldubuque.com

With a population of 70,000 and a drawing base area of over 250,000, Dubuque is a city where the simple pleasures and modern conveniences of life are balanced. Dubuque is a little over a one hour drive from both Madison and Iowa City, and is only three hours from Chicago.

Qualifications:

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:** _Experience/Education_ : Doctor of Optometry (OD) degree from an accredited program. Eligible for licensure in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois

_Interpersonal Skills:_ The ability to motivate or influence others is a material part of the job, requiring a significant level of diplomacy and trust. Obtaining cooperation (internally and/or externally) is an important part of the job.

_Other Skills:_ Strong diagnostic, clinical, and communication skills. Commitment to patient-centered, team-based care

Physical Aspects:

Reaching - Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

Standing - Particularly for sustained periods of time.

Lifting - Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.

Fingering - Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.

Grasping - Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Feeling - Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

Talking - Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.

Hearing - Perceiving the nature of sound with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when making fine adjustments on machined parts.

Vision - 20 / 40 or better in the best eye with or without correction.

Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or 10 pounds force constantly to move objects.

Environmental Conditions

Subject to Physical Hazards - Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.

Medical Associates Clinic & Health Plans is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, national origin, marital status, parental status, disability, veteran status, or other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.

Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP https://www.eeoc.gov/poster

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Job Details

Categories

Health Care

Location

Dubuque, IA

Job Type

Employee

Full/Part

Full Time

Company ID

1148

Job REQ #

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\# Positions

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Start Date

20250330

End Date

20250625

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About the Company

_Our mission is to provide superior healthcare and an excellent patient experience._

Medical Associates Clinic is a well-established multispecialty group practice with over 170 providers and a staff of over 1,000 health care professionals and support personnel. The group was founded in 1924 and is Iowa’s oldest multispecialty group practice. Today, Medical Associates Clinic is the area’s leading health care provider and only multispecialty group practice. Medical Associates Clinic has been recognized since 1998 as a “better performing practice” by the Medical Group Management Association.

In 1982, Medical Associates developed the Tri-State’s first health maintenance organization, Medical Associates Health Plans, which offers comprehensive health benefits to over 400 employers and 45,000 members. Medical Associates Health Plans has maintained an “Excellent” rating, the highest level of accreditation possible by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, for 13 consecutive years.

Medical Associates Clinic offers several locations from which to seek medical care, including facilities at 1500 Associates Drive, 1000 Langworthy, and 4155 Pennsylvania Ave in Dubuque, Iowa; as well as facilities in Bellevue, Cascade, Dyersville, Iowa; Cuba City, and Platteville, Wisconsin; and Elizabeth and Galena, Illinois.