Which physician specialists are still paying off their student loans?

Paying off college or medical school loans is the third largest debt or expense physicians have — behind mortgages or residence costs and car loan payments — according to Medscape's 2015 report on physician compensation, debt and net worth.

More than one-third of physicians in the following specialties are still paying off student loans:

  • Emergency physicians — 37 percent are still paying off school loans
  • Critical care intensivists — 35 percent
  • Family medicine physicians — 34 percent
  • Dermatologists — 34 percent

The physicians least likely to still be paying off their school loans are:

  • Pulmonologists — 16 percent
  • Gastroenterologists — 17 percent
  • Rheumatologists — 20 percent
  • Urologists — 20 percent
  • HIV/infectious disease specialists — 20 percent

The Medscape report includes responses from more than 19,500 physicians across 26 specialties.

 

 

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