What Are The Most Popular Fields of Medicine To Enter as A Career?
Which fields of medicine pay the highest salaries? Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Radiology, Surgeons? What about malpractice insurance premiums, the highest, the lowest?
I think if I was going to persue a medical career, I would choose psychiatry because of all the breakthroughs recently in brain chemistry or dermatology because the new treatments for skin cancer and acne.
In remote areas of the US where psychiatrists are not easy to find, waiting lists are long and availability is scarce.
Posted on February 12, 2012 at 4:48 pm by radiology · Permalink
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on February 12, 2012 at 5:04 pm
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highest salaries and malpractice – surgery
on February 12, 2012 at 5:19 pm
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I recently read that dermatology is highly competitive. So is plastic surgery.
on February 12, 2012 at 5:30 pm
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highest malpractice-obgyn and neurosurgery
highest salary-neurosurgery
no life at all-transplant surgery, cardiothoracic surgery
Least money with most annoying patients-pediatrics (okay the children are cute but the parents will call you 24-7 to ask about juniors snotty nose)
Pathetic reimbursement with high work-internal medicine
Easy job with a lot of money-radiology or dermatology
Flexible schedule, reasonable but not high income-psychiatry
The above comments are correct: derm and plastics are VERY competetive. This is because cosmetics is the only cash and carry medicine in the market these days. Everyone else is struggling big time.
on February 12, 2012 at 5:57 pm
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Highest salaries- radiologists & plastic surgeons
Lowest salaries- family practice & pediatrics
Lowest malpractice- radiologists & pathologists
Highest malpractice- OB/GYNs & all type of surgeons