Number of physicians in the U.S. by specialty and gender 2021

Number of active physicians in the U.S. in 2021, by specialty and gender

CharacteristicMaleFemale
Allergy and Immunology 2,849 2,158
Anatomic/Clinical Pathology 7,433 4,738
Anesthesiology 31,188 11,032
Cardiovascular Disease 18,795 3,448
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 4,520 5,441
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology 2,360 266
Critical Care Medicine 10,281 3,861
Dermatology 6,091 6,665
Emergency Medicine 33,257 13,565
Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism 3,867 4,367
Family Medicine/General Practice 68,411 50,053
Gastroenterology 12,576 3,083
General Surgery 19,234 5,627
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January 2023

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Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

The AMA Physician Dataset defines gender as "male" OR "female." Although limited to these categories within our analyses, we acknowledge sex and gender as fluid, non-binary variables.

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