Ninety-five percent of emergency medicine physicians work nights, compared to 0% of preventive medicine physicians and 1% of dermatology physicians, according to a recent blog post from salary transparency website Marit Health.
Here’s a breakdown of the share of physicians who work nights, by specialty:
- Emergency medicine: 95%
- Critical care: 83%
- Neurosurgery: 75%
- Surgery: 72%
- Anesthesiology: 68%
- OB-GYN: 65%
- Pulmonary & critical care: 52%
- Nephrology: 49%
- Plastic surgery: 42%
- Hospital medicine: 41%
- Pediatrics: 40%
- Radiology: 39%
- Urology: 39%
- Orthopedic surgery: 36%
- Cardiology: 36%
- Pulmonology: 31%
- Neurology: 29%
- Gastroenterology: 27%
- Otolaryngology: 25%
- Urgent care: 18%
- Hematology oncology: 16%
- Internal medicine: 15%
- Infectious disease: 14%
- Podiatry: 14%
- Pathology: 10%
- Family medicine: 9%
- Psychiatry: 6%
- Ophthalmology: 6%
- Physical medicine & rehabilitation: 4%
- Rheumatology: 3%
- Radiation oncology: 2%
- Allergy & immunology: 2%
- Endocrinology: 2%
- Dermatology: 1%
- Preventive medicine: 0%
- All specialties: 37%
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