About 31 percent of emergency medicine specialists are still paying off student loans, the most of any specialty, according to Medscape's 2023 "Physician Wealth and Debt Report."
The percent of specialists still paying off student loans:
Emergency medicine: 31 percent
Critical care: 29 percent
Family medicine: 28 percent
Physical medicine and rehabilitation: 27 percent
OB-GYN: 25 percent
Pediatrics: 24 percent
Urology: 24 percent
Plastic surgery: 23 percent
General surgery: 23 percent
Otolaryngology: 22 percent
Psychiatry: 21 percent
Dermatology: 20 percent
Neurology: 20 percent
Public health and preventive medicine: 20 percent
Pulmonary medicine: 20 percent
Anesthesiology: 19 percent
Internal medicine: 19 percent
Ophthalmology: 18 percent
Radiology: 18 percent
Rheumatology: 18 percent
Oncology: 16 percent
Allergy and immunology: 15 percent
Orthopedics: 15 percent
Pathology: 14 percent
Cardiology: 13 percent
Nephrology: 13 percent
Infectious diseases: 12 percent
Gastroenterology: 11 percent
Diabetes and endocrinology: 11 percent