The report, released June 10, includes responses from 13,000 physicians in more than 29 specialties.
Here are the percentage of physicians who are paying off their loans, by specialty:
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation: 31 percent
- Emergency medicine: 31 percent
- Pediatrics: 29 percent
- Neurology: 28 percent
- Otolaryngology: 28 percent
- Family medicine: 28 percent
- Critical care: 27 percent
- General surgery: 26 percent
- OB-GYN: 26 percent
- Anesthesiology: 24 percent
- Plastic surgery: 24 percent
- Psychiatry: 23 percent
- Pathology: 23 percent
- Internal medicine: 22 percent
- Infectious diseases: 22 percent
- Oncology: 21 percent
- Orthopedics: 21 percent
- Ophthalmology: 20 percent
- Radiology: 19 percent
- Nephrology: 19 percent
- Allergy & immunology: 18 percent
- Urology: 17 percent
- Gastroenterology: 17 percent
- Dermatology: 16 percent
- Cardiology: 16 percent
- Diabetes & endocrinology: 15 percent
- Rheumatology: 12 percent
- Public health & preventive medicine: 11 percent
- Pulmonary medicine: 10 percent
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