Preventive medicine physicians have the best lifestyle balance of 36 specialties, according to a Sept. 22 analysis from physician salary platform Marit Health.
Marit built its Lifestyle Balance Index from more than 24,400 anonymous salary and schedule submissions from full-time physicians. The index combines five factors: average weekly hours, schedule quality, call burden, percent clinical time and average annual PTO. Each factor is normalized so 1 equals the all-specialty average.
Here are the top 10 specialties by index score, along with average weekly hours:
- Preventive medicine: 1.50 (40.5 hours)
- Dermatology: 1.44 (38.8 hours)
- Allergy and immunology: 1.39 (40.2 hours)
- Rheumatology: 1.34 (40.6 hours)
- Psychiatry: 1.33 (40.9 hours)
- Family medicine: 1.30 (41.8 hours)
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation: 1.27 (43.1 hours)
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery: 1.26 (43.1 hours)
- Ophthalmology: 1.22 (42 hours)
- Endocrinology: 1.22 (42.5 hours)
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