Nephrology and oncology have the highest share of physicians using AI daily across 20 specialties, a Nov. 12 Doximity report found.
Doximity’s 2026 “Doctor-Driven AI” report surveyed 3,379 physicians across 20 specialties in September.
It found:
- Among participants, 91% reported using AI in some capacity at their work.
- Across all specialties, 85% reported using AI professionally at least weekly, and 52% reported using it daily.
- More than 90% of physicians 30 and under said they use AI professionally at least weekly, compared with 89% in their 30s, 86% in their 40s, 80% in their 50s and 60s, and 66% in their 70s.
- Physicians’ most common uses of AI in the last year included professional correspondence (38%), patient education (34%) and insurance letters (32%).
- Although more than half of physicians reported being concerned about AI’s accuracy and reliability, the majority of physicians trust AI on a range of clinical tasks at least to a small extent. This includes medical literature search (94%), generating differential diagnoses (87%) and recommending treatment or management (86%).
- Among participants, 49% reported less after-hours work because of AI and 81% reported gaining new clinical knowledge.
Here are 20 specialties ranked by the number of practitioners who reported using AI daily.
Nephrology: 65%
Oncology: 65%
Radiology: 64%
Internal medicine: 62%
Gastroenterology: 59%
Neurology: 56%
Psychiatry: 53%
OB-GYN: 52%
Pediatrics: 52%
Cardiology: 51%
Family medicine: 51%
Pulmonology: 51%
Urology: 50%
Dermatology: 46%
Emergency medicine: 46%
General surgery: 44%
Pathology: 42%
Ophthalmology: 40%
Orthopedic surgery: 37%
Anesthesiology: 31%
