Physicians spend the better part of a decade preparing for practice—and after years of training, choosing a specialty may feel like crossing a finish line. But in reality, it’s just the beginning.

At the conclusion of their residency or fellowship, physicians are faced with the new challenge of interviewing and negotiating their first contract. One of the first things that I hear from early ...

Roughly 13.5 percent of physicians said they planned to look for nonclinical jobs in healthcare within the next one to three years, according to a 2016 survey by the Physicians Foundation. The survey, ...

If they had it to do over again, residents who trained in pathology and anesthesiology were more likely to regret their choice of a career as a doctor. In a survey of 3,571 resident physicians, career ...

According to the 2022 "Employed Physicians Report" from Medscape, the majority of career physicians are satisfied with their career hours and salary based on a survey of 1,350 physicians nationwide.

Sixty-one percent of physicians said they’d choose their profession again, down from 68 percent in 2022. What’s more, only 4 in 10 physicians would recommend a career in medicine to young people. The ...

Physicians older than 50 are motivated by a different set of factors than younger doctors, research suggests. Physicians may not be as eager to retire as the industry has been led to believe, ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL) is proud to announce the release of a new book, How to Jumpstart Your Medical Career and Thrive in ...

More physicians are regretting choosing to pursue medicine, according to a 2023 survey from the Physicians Foundation, and 21 physicians joined Becker’s to discuss why this is and what’s needed to ...

Forty percent of doctors would pick a different career if they had to do it all over again, according to the Physicians Practice 2013 Great American Physician Survey. As FiercePracticeManagement ...

Physicians (both MDs and DOs) practice in all the same areas of medicine. They diagnose and treat illness, prescribe medications, order and interpret tests, and perform surgery. Medical school is 4 ...

Children at Dibble Elementary School who suffer from playground bumps and bruises or need help taking their medicine still have a health-care professional to help — even though Jackson Public Schools ...