The study, published in the December issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, examined depression and burnout rates of 7,360 physicians from the American Medical Association’s Physician Professional Data who responded to a survey in late 2020 and early 2021.
It also found that ophthalmology was the physician specialty with the lowest rate of depression at 19.1%, according to a Feb. 20 report on the study from the AMA.
Here are the 10 most depressed physician specialties from the study:
- Urology: 38.5%.
- Emergency medicine: 38.3%.
- Family medicine: 35.8%.
- Obstetrics and gynecology: 33.6%.
- General internal medicine: 33.3%.
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation: 32.7%.
- Radiology: 32%.
- Pediatric subspecialty: 31.9%.
- Psychiatry: 31.8%.
- Dermatology: 31.6%.
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