One of the strongest overall primary-care picks in the area: a Washingtonian 2025 Top Doctor with excellent Johns Hopkins patient ratings and Harvard training.
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Best Primary Care & Internal Medicine Doctors in Bethesda & Montgomery County (2026)
Board-certified internists and family physicians for adult preventive care, chronic disease management, and annual physicals. Our editorial team ranks these 28 doctors on credentials, training, peer recognition, and verified patient-review data.
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A strong patient-experience profile with broad adult primary-care scope, including women’s health and preventive medicine, and care in four languages.
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A newer-patient-friendly Johns Hopkins internist with a lifestyle-medicine orientation and trilingual care; reviews highlight unhurried, clear visits.
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A high-volume, high-rating Johns Hopkins primary-care option with long clinical experience and Washingtonian Top Doctor recognition.
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A Chevy Chase concierge internist with strong peer recognition, more than three decades of experience, and a deep bench of verified positive reviews.
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A concierge MDVIP internist in Bethesda with 20+ years of experience, blending preventive and integrative medicine, women's health, and nutrition in an unhurried, relationship-based practice.
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A Fellow of the American College of Rheumatology and GW clinical associate professor who has practiced in Washington since 1986 — and one of very few Russian-speaking internists in the Bethesda–Chevy Chase corridor.
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A bilingual MedStar internist in Bethesda offering full-range adult primary care — and one of the area's most highly rated primary-care physicians.
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A strong conventional internal-medicine option inside MedStar’s Bethesda primary-care practice, with consistently high patient-experience scores.
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A Georgetown-trained internist who founded Spring Valley Internal Medicine in 1999 — known for unhurried, relationship-based adult primary care and repeated Top Doctor recognition.
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A Columbia-trained internist with decades of Washington-area experience, offering relationship-based adult primary care in Chevy Chase.
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A well-reviewed private-practice internist serving Bethesda, Potomac, Rockville and Chevy Chase, with a perfect Zocdoc score across verified reviews.
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A bilingual internist with more than four decades of experience, providing adult primary care in Bethesda and affiliated with George Washington University Hospital.
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A patient-centered CloseKnit physician assistant offering same- and next-day primary, preventive, and women's health care in Bethesda — in person and by telehealth across Maryland.
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A DC-area native and osteopathic internist at Quality Primary Care Associates in Rockville, focused on prevention, chronic disease management, and patient-led decision-making.
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A certified PA with a nutrition degree and an emergency-medicine background — the combination that makes her unusually good at triaging what needs urgent attention and what needs a diet-and-habits conversation.
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An NCCPA-certified physician assistant at CloseKnit Bethesda treating everyday illness, chronic conditions, and minor injuries — caring for diverse patients in English and Igbo.
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A Vietnamese-speaking internist in Rockville who directs Montgomery Medical's hospital practices, with a rare span of care from the office to the hospital, the nursing home, and palliative care.
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A board-certified internist and founder of Kelly Collaborative Medicine in Silver Spring, a former chief resident with one of the largest patient-review followings in the area (4.85 stars across 1,150+ reviews).
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A board-certified internist in Silver Spring who consults in five languages — English, Yoruba, French, Creole, and Spanish — making him one of the most linguistically accessible primary-care doctors in the county.
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A board-certified internist and infectious-disease specialist at Kelly Collaborative Medicine in Silver Spring, NIH-fellowship-trained, bringing an infectious-disease depth to everyday adult primary care.
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An Amharic-speaking internist and hospital-medicine physician with more than 20 years of experience, trained at Addis Ababa University and affiliated with Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center.
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A trilingual (English/Amharic/Spanish) internist with four decades of experience, a longtime primary-care doctor for Silver Spring's Ethiopian community.
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A Hindi- and Punjabi-speaking internist and founder of Kaur Internal Medicine in Rockville, offering detail-oriented adult primary care with a quarter-century of experience.
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A French-speaking, Wake Forest–trained internist in Chevy Chase, offering relationship-based adult primary care for acute and chronic conditions.
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An Ethiopian, Amharic-speaking internist in downtown Silver Spring with more than three decades of experience in adult primary care — a familiar, trusted name for the area's Ethiopian community.
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A Mandarin-speaking internist and geriatric-care physician in Rockville, caring for adults in the clinic and in nursing-home settings with a focus on diabetes and blood-pressure control.
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A Cantonese- and Mandarin-speaking internist in Rockville with more than three decades of experience — a long-standing primary-care choice for the area's Chinese-speaking families.
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By the numbers
- 28
- doctors in our registry — 20% of all 139
- 9
- countries of medical training across 20 schools
- 53%
- did residency in the DC–Baltimore area (of 17 whose residency we record)
- 19
- confirmed accepting new patients (of 19 we checked)
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Training figures cover the 23 of 28 profiles that record a medical school. How we build this list.
Where they trained
The 23 doctors whose medical school we could place studied at 20 institutions in 9 countries — 11 (48%) trained outside the United States.
United States12 doctors
Ethiopia3 doctors
India2 doctors
Ecuador1 doctor
Sint Maarten1 doctor
Russia1 doctor
Argentina1 doctor
Peru1 doctor
China1 doctor
Figures describe the 139 providers currently in the MyBethesdaDoctor registry as of August 2026 — a curated directory, not a census of every doctor in Montgomery County. Based on the 23 of 28 profiles whose medical school we could identify; 5 record none. How we build this list.