Medscape surveyed more than 2,500 physicians on their side jobs.
Here are physicians’ nonmedical side gigs and the percentage of physicians participating:
- Real estate: 21 percent
- Investing: 19 percent
- Advice/consulting: 12 percent
- Teaching: 11 percent
- Writing: 8 percent
- Sports: 5 percent
- Business consulting: 5 percent
- Social media influencer/blogger: 4 percent
- Cooking/food preparation: 3 percent
- Arts or crafts: 3 percent
- Playing music/singing: 3 percent
- Life or career coaching: 3 percent
- Photography: 3 percent
- Podcasting and blogging: 2 percent
- Software and electronics: 2 percent
- Raising/breeding/training animals: 2 percent
- My side gig does not involve nonmedical activities: 35 percent
