Build a Career That Works for You — and the Family You’re Building It For.
An in-person sleep medicine opportunity for a physician who wants excellent clinical work, meaningful support, real local authority and a career that can be intentionally designed around the life you want outside of medicine.
The question is not just “What job do you want?”
The real question is: what kind of life are you trying to build over the next five to ten years?
Maybe you want a highly productive clinical practice. Maybe you want a schedule that protects family time, travel or life outside medicine. Maybe you want to teach, mentor, lead a site or help build something more enduring than a schedule.
At Dream Sleep Center, we want to understand that destination first — then design the work around it in a way that also creates real value for the organization.
— Bradley W. Smith, DO · Founder & Medical Director
Start in Colorado Springs. Lead the location. Help shape what comes next.
The immediate opening is an in-person sleep medicine role in Colorado Springs, with expected progression toward Colorado Springs Medical Director & Site Lead responsibilities after the initial ramp.
Broad sleep medicine
Primarily in-person adult and pediatric sleep medicine, with consultations, follow-ups and interpretations integrated into the normal workflow.
Real site authority
Clinical quality, people leadership, APP development, workflow improvement, hiring input and awareness of site performance.
Expand your impact
For the right person, leadership can grow beyond one site into additional Dream locations, broader clinical leadership and future growth opportunities.
Remote interpretation and telemedicine capability already exist within Dream, but this specific opening is intentionally an in-person Colorado Springs role.
Construct the version of practice that works for you and your family.
We do not assume every excellent physician wants the same workweek, the same income target or the same amount of leadership. The role can be designed to fit the season of life you are actually in.
Protect time without wasting expertise.
Approximately three clinical days, clinic plus interpretations, selected mentoring and more freedom for the rest of life.
Focus on the clinical work you love.
High-efficiency clinic, strong support and transparent productivity upside for the physician who wants to produce at a high level.
Turn responsibility into opportunity.
Clinical work plus Medical Director/Site Lead responsibilities, APP development, team leadership and growth work.
These are starting points — not boxes.
The role can evolve over time as your family, interests and goals change.
Your workday should end when you leave the clinic.
Dream is designed around reducing the routine after-hours work that follows physicians home.
Clinical judgment · patient care · interpretations · leadership
Routine questions and repeatable processes are routed through Freedom Maps, SOPs, scripts and staff workflows. The intent is to keep the physician focused on the work that truly requires physician judgment.
Work-life balance is not a slogan. It has to be engineered.
If the practice design is broken, the physician pays for it with nights, weekends and family time. Dream's support model is intended to prevent that.
We build the team around the physician.
Efficiency is not asking the physician to move faster while doing five jobs. It is making sure the right work is done by the right person.
20-minute consults. 10-minute follow-ups. Interpretations built into the day.
Dream's physician schedule is designed so documentation, orders, routing and task work happen in parallel — not after clinic. The exact template is customized around the physician's goals and responsibilities.
Efficiency here does not mean rushing. It means eliminating wasted work and keeping each teammate focused at the right level.
Clinic + interpretation rhythm
Daily huddle → consults/follow-ups → interpretation blocks → lunch/reset → afternoon clinic → interpretation/close-loop time.
The physician makes clinical decisions and interprets studies while the MA/coordinator manages flow and next steps and the scribe documents in parallel.
See the whole sleep-medicine patient journey.
Dream connects consultation, testing, interpretation, results, treatment and longitudinal follow-up inside one clinical model.
A good career move should make life better at home too.
When physicians think about a next chapter, they are usually thinking about much more than work: spouse or partner, children, school, finances, commuting, time freedom, travel and the shape of everyday life.
Choose a role structure that better protects evenings, weekends and family rhythm.
Colorado Springs offers a strong city base with direct access to the outdoors and a desirable lifestyle.
What works at one life stage may not be the same five years from now. The model can flex.
Income matters, but so do control of time, family fit, stress load and the meaning of the work itself.
The right patient. The right pathway. The right setting.
Patients scheduled for overnight outpatient testing are clinically screened in advance so the lab team has a clinical picture before the patient arrives. Higher-acuity patients can be directed to a setting with appropriate cardiopulmonary support rather than asking an outpatient sleep lab to be something it is not.
Clinical evaluation first
Appropriateness for outpatient testing is considered before the overnight study.
Match setting to risk
Patients requiring higher-acuity support can be routed to the appropriate setting.
Support patients + technologists
Important clinical decisions happen before 2:00 AM rather than being pushed onto an overnight technologist.
Lead the location — not just the schedule.
The intended role is Sleep Medicine Physician with progression into Colorado Springs Medical Director & Site Lead responsibilities after the initial ramp.
Clinical quality
Standards, safety, judgment and outcomes.
People leadership
Staff feedback, coaching and team issues.
APP development
Mentorship, escalation support and increasing independence.
Workflow
Clinical flow, local scheduling and Freedom Map improvement.
Hiring input
Help select the people you will work with and lead.
Site performance
Clinical, operational and financial awareness without turning the physician into the office manager.
Major legal, ownership, enterprise-strategy and high-level financial decisions remain at the founder / ownership level.
Leadership without meeting overload.
No generic administrative half-day. Leadership is integrated into a predictable operating rhythm.
Huddle
Brief, tactical, focused on the day ahead.
Operations
Issues, metrics, ownership and next actions.
Strategic
Priorities, improvement and growth.
Direction
Goals, larger decisions and course correction.
Experienced physician. Short ramp. Proven system.
You already know how to practice medicine. Onboarding is about learning how Dream Sleep Center practices.
Learn the model
Freedom Maps, support roles, documentation, screening, lab processes and culture. Lighter schedule while you learn the operating system.
Build the rhythm
Increase clinical flow, integrate interpretations, direct the MA/scribe team and learn escalation pathways.
Lead the site
Move toward full operating rhythm, identify improvements and assume Colorado Springs Medical Director & Site Lead responsibilities.
We measure outcomes — not how long you sit at a desk.
The standard: does the site become clinically better, operationally stronger and easier to work in because you are leading it?
Excellent patient care
Safe decisions, strong judgment and appropriate testing.
Patients feel heard
Clear plans, strong experience and long-term treatment success.
Work completed in the day
Closed charts, lean inbox and clean handoffs.
Efficient clinic flow
The 20-minute consult / 10-minute follow-up model works without routine after-hours spillover.
Strong team culture
Respect, ownership, coaching and accountability.
Continuous improvement
Freedom Maps improve and broken processes get fixed quickly.
Growth. Love. Ownership. Excellence.
Clinical productivity does not excuse entitlement, disrespect, rigidity or poor teamwork. Great clinicians must also be great teammates.
Build a serious medical career in a place you actually want to live.
Colorado Springs combines a substantial city with immediate access to the Front Range, Pikes Peak and Garden of the Gods. The clinic is at 1710 Jet Stream Drive, Suite 215 in northern Colorado Springs.
A career move affects more than the physician. It affects a spouse or partner, children, finances, commute, schools, routines and the life you want outside medicine.
If the role is right but the move does not work for your family, the role is not right. As the conversation becomes serious, we can help think through the practical details without pretending every family wants the same version of Colorado.
An established platform — not a startup.
Dream Sleep Center operates two Southern Colorado locations with clinic care, in-lab testing, HSAT, interpretation, PAP/DME support and longitudinal follow-up.
2011
Pueblo practice established.
2 locations
Pueblo + Colorado Springs.
Full continuum
Clinic, testing, interpretation, treatment and follow-up.
Next chapter
Enough infrastructure to lead now — enough whitespace to keep improving it.
Colorado Springs now. Front Range next. Selected markets beyond.
The role begins locally. For the right physician-leader, impact can expand from one site to multiple locations and broader systemwide clinical leadership.
Build the local practice and lead the site.
A mature Southern Colorado clinical base.
Repeat what works with strong local leadership.
Broader clinical leadership where the model and people justify it.
Your compensation should reflect the career you choose.
Market data provide guardrails. Dream's final structure is built around role design, productivity, physician support and meaningful leadership responsibility.
Stable foundation
Competitive guaranteed compensation or draw appropriate to the role and market.
Productivity upside
Physicians who create more clinical value should be able to earn more without an arbitrary ceiling.
Leadership value
Medical Director, site leadership, APP development and growth responsibilities should be visibly and separately valued.
Detailed compensation benchmarks, formulas and individualized illustrations are reserved for the confidential physician briefing and recruiting conversation. Potential ownership is a pathway for exceptional long-term fit and contribution — not an automatic day-one promise.
Clinical excellence is necessary. It is not enough by itself.
The ideal candidate is board-certified or board-eligible in Sleep Medicine. Primary specialty is not limiting. Experience is preferred, but alignment, coachability, clinical strength and leadership potential matter greatly.
“If your career and life have gone extraordinarily well five years from now, what does that look like?”
A few things physician candidates usually want to know.
Is this an in-person or remote position?
The current physician opening is intentionally an in-person Colorado Springs role. Dream already has remote capability for interpretations and telemedicine, and future remote roles may become a separate pathway.
Is hospital call required?
No hospital call is built into the role. The physician recruiting model describes only a true sleep-lab emergency as a possible after-hours physician call.
Do I have to want to become an executive?
No. Dream's career-design model includes expert/lifestyle, producer and builder/medical-director paths. The mix can evolve over time.
What support does the physician have?
The operating model includes a dedicated MA/sleep coordinator, a dedicated human scribe, shared scheduling/front-office support and shared billing/operations infrastructure.
How quickly would I assume leadership?
The current physician architecture anticipates a roughly 2–6 week ramp, with site-lead responsibility increasing as the physician learns the Dream operating model and demonstrates readiness.
Is ownership part of the offer?
Not automatically. For the right long-term builder and leader, Dream is open to discussing a pathway toward ownership after alignment, leadership, clinical quality and value creation are demonstrated.
Could this be the next chapter you are looking for?
Request the confidential physician career briefing, then start a career-design conversation with Bradley W. Smith, DO.