Preventative medicine boasts the highest compensation growth of any specialty for 2021, perhaps reflecting current trends toward value-based healthcare.
Here are the 10 specialties with the fastest-growing compensation for 2021, with surgical specialties bolded:
1. Preventative medicine: 12.6 percent
2. Hematology: 12.2 percent
3. Nuclear medicine: 10.4 percent
4. Pediatric nephrology: 9.5 percent
5. Occupational medicine: 8.4 percent
6. Oral and maxillofacial surgery: 7.1 percent
7. Otolaryngology: 5.6 percent
8. Pediatric gastroenterology: 5.4 percent
9. Allergy and immunology: 5.3 percent
10. Radiation oncology: 5 percent
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