Which Physician Specialties Are Most Likely To Work Nights?


 
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By Patsy Newitt

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 report from salary transparency firm, 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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