A clinic is looking to manage its associated physicians within Health Cloud.

Comprehensive Detailed Step by Step Explanation with exact Extracts from Salesforce Health Cloud documents that you have with References

Healthcare Practitioner and Healthcare Provider Objects:

Salesforce recommends using the Healthcare Practitioner object for modeling individual doctors and the Healthcare Provider object for organizations/facilities.

Extract:

“Model physicians using the Healthcare Practitioner object and relate them to organizations or facilities using the Healthcare Provider object.”

— Provider Network Management Data Model

Other Options:

A. Contact and B. Person Account are not the recommended approach for modeling licensed clinical professionals in the Health Cloud provider data model.