The data compared the number of physicians in each specialty between 2016 and 2021 to determine the percentage increase or decrease.
Here are the top 15 growing specialties:
- Sports medicine — 42.5% increase
- Pediatric anesthesiology — 37.7%
- Interventional cardiology — 32.6%
- Critical care medicine — 30.1%
- Sports medicine, orthopedic surgery — 26%
- Pain medicine and pain management — 25.4%
- Pediatric critical care medicine — 25.1%
- Vascular and interventional radiology — 25.1%
- Neuroradiology — 23.1%
- Clinical cardiac electrophysiology — 21.6%
- Pediatric hematology/oncology — 18.8%
- Vascular surgery — 15.2%
- Internal medicine/pediatrics — 14.1%
- Emergency medicine — 14%
- Pediatric cardiology — 13.3%
