Correlating the data from the 2 questions (primary specialty and frequency of satisfaction) we posed, your peers indicated that the following specialties offered the highest levels of satisfaction.
- Women’s Health: 80%, a 9% increase over last year
- Primary Care & Ob/Gyn: 72%, a 3% increase over last year
- Psychiatric/Mental Health: 67%, a 6% decrease over last year
- Pediatrics: 65%, a 9% decrease over last year
MOST SATISFIED BY PRACTICE SETTING
Working conditions and coworker collegiality are integral to job satisfaction. To learn more about these factors, we asked you to identify the practice settings where you work.
- Academic setting (faculty); school/college health services
- Hospital: inpatient care; outpatient setting or community clinic
- Locum
- Physician practice: solo; single-specialty; multi-specialty
- Public health/occupational health setting; military/government
- Retail/convenient care; urgent care clinic
- Skilled nursing/long-term care facility
- NP practice
We also asked how often you typically feel satisfied with your job, with 5 answer choices ranging from “Never” to “Always.”
To see what your colleagues said, go to the next page