Physician Career Information : Physician Salary

A physician's salary depends on experience and specialty. Learn about a physician's salary and earning potential with tips from an experienced doctor in this free medical career information video.

Expert: Catherine Stallworth, M.D.
Bio: Catherine Stallworth, M.D., is a board-certified physician with more than 15 years of experience in the health care field.
Filmmaker: Dimitri LaBarge

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[BnJohansen]

who cares for money... seriously.... you don't become a physician / doctor because of the money.... one becomes a doctor/physician because you like/love to help people and to take care of them

[WarrenAch]

Stable job?Working over 60 hours a week and not being able to live a proper relationship is stable ?

If you're joining Medical school with the hope of "living a good life and making money" is the worst idea ever...

A doctor doesn't make shitloads of money,he loses about 40-50% of what he makes a year and with all the work schedules,you won't even have enough time to live with your money.

Join this field for passion and science loving.

Money is in M.B.A degrees,not M.D.

[guju4ever]

@WarrenAch The fact of the matter is doctors don't make much money early in their career, but once they finish their residencies (they are around 30 to 40, depending on when u got in medskul you can expect a very high salary around $400 K to $800K depends on ur specialty, primary care docs make around $200k to $400K, so u can buy (big house + nice car on loans) u can pay off the debts slowly when ur round 50 ur income will be around $1million up, so u start late but you catch up

[mrthomas2000]

in my country, it's 6 years of university, then you become a resident for 3 to 7 years. But the salary for a resident is about 4800 $ (USD) A YEAR! and for a doctor it's about 14500 $ (USD) A YEAR!

[1080portal]

70k....lol!

[thucie]

@WarrenAch i just wanted to clarify your comment on the length of physician training. we have to go through 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, and 3 years of residency in order to fully practice. however, a fellowship or post-masters's is not required. if physicians want to specialize, a fellowship can last 1-4 more years. for more info, i write about the different specialties and salary figures in my blog, mdsalaries . good luck w/pre law!

[BnJohansen]

@Nyguenify Don't troll xD didn't you get into med. school ?! xD

[Nyguenify]

@carlosc1dbz The salaries are too varied.  The general info is out there, but still, too much variability. Aside from the hours, location (rural, urban), coding abilities, etc. You can have a primary care doc who makes X amount of dollars and another PCP who makes a lot more because he/she decided to do a year in sports medicine and is proficient at treating arthritis, giving injections, etc. Injections and x-rays are revenue producing animals!

[Nyguenify]

@stagelightingkid Most all PA programs are Masters degrees which means you need a BS degree to get in. 6 years total. And then you can decided who's thumb you want to work under.

[Nyguenify]

@WarrenAch And? Like I care or that means anything to me. Allopathic medicine is treatment for profit. It serves purpose only in emergent care. It cures nothing. There is tons of evidence supporting naturopathic care. Only a person filled with willful pompous ignorance will state the contrary. You can go to nccam.nih.gov and read scientific data supporting naturopathic remedies, earthclinic. c om to read anecdotal evidence, etc. Discuss what with the AMA? How the fox guards the hens?

[WarrenAch]

@Nyguenify Don't trip man, i'm a Pre-Law...

[Nyguenify]

@WarrenAch Then violate the Hippocratic Oath and keep doing what's not in the patients best interest. Good luck.