Medical Specialty Recruiters — All Specialties

Browse physician recruiting depth by specialty. Every page below covers subspecialty scope, demand outlook, current compensation benchmarks, and active geographic markets. Backed by MedicalRecruiting.com's 1.5M-contact healthcare network and our 95% placement success rate.

Primary care & hospital medicine

• Family Medicine — FM recruiters — base $235K–$330K, very high demand
• Internal Medicine — IM recruiters — base $245K–$345K, very high demand
• Pediatrics — Pediatrics recruiters — base $215K–$305K, high demand
• Hospitalist — Hospitalist recruiters — base $275K–$390K, very high demand
• Emergency Medicine — EM recruiters — base $340K–$470K, high demand

Mental health, women's health, surgery

• Psychiatry — Psychiatry recruiters — base $255K–$360K, very high demand
• OB/GYN — OB/GYN recruiters — base $305K–$440K, high demand
• General Surgery — General surgery recruiters — base $370K–$535K, high demand
• Orthopedic Surgery — Ortho recruiters — base $525K–$815K, high demand
• Urology — Urology recruiters — base $455K–$680K, high demand

Internal medicine subspecialties

• Cardiology — Cardiology recruiters — base $445K–$640K, high demand
• Gastroenterology — GI recruiters — base $440K–$660K, high demand
• Hematology/Oncology — Oncology recruiters — base $410K–$610K, high demand
• Pulm/Critical Care — Pulm recruiters — base $345K–$510K, high demand
• Endocrinology — Endo recruiters — base $245K–$360K, very high demand
• Nephrology — Nephro recruiters — base $265K–$395K, high demand
• Rheumatology — Rheum recruiters — base $250K–$365K, very high demand

Hospital-based, diagnostic, and procedural

• Anesthesiology — Anesthesia recruiters — base $370K–$520K, high demand
• Diagnostic Radiology — Radiology recruiters — base $425K–$620K, very high demand
• Neurology — Neuro recruiters — base $285K–$410K, very high demand
• Dermatology — Derm recruiters — base $395K–$575K, moderate demand
• PM&R — PM&R recruiters — base $290K–$430K, high demand
• Otolaryngology (ENT) — ENT recruiters — base $395K–$590K, high demand

What every specialty page covers

Subspecialty scope (fellowship pathways), 2024 MGMA/AAMC/AMGA compensation benchmarks (median + 25th–90th percentile), national demand signal, common practice settings, board certification requirements, top geographic markets, and our recruiter notes on what makes a placement successful in each specialty. State-by-state salary breakdowns live at salary calculator.

How to pick the right specialty page

If you are an employer scoping a search, start on the specialty page that matches the role's primary board certification (not the role's case mix). A "general surgeon with vascular experience" is a General Surgery search; a fellowship-trained vascular surgeon is a separate, much smaller candidate universe. Likewise, a "primary care" role can be Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, or IM-Peds — different residency pathways, different candidate networks, and meaningfully different comp benchmarks. If you are a physician candidate, the specialty page that matches your boards is the right starting point; subspecialty fellowship adds a second filter on top.

How we built the specialty depth

Each specialty pipeline is led by a named recruiter with direct placement track record in that specialty, not a generalist rotating across whatever search lands on the desk. Specialty leads maintain their own candidate networks (often built across 5–15 years of recruiting that specialty), benchmark current offers against MGMA/AAMC quarterly updates, and track which markets are heating up before the published demand data catches up. That is the difference between a specialty page that lists job titles and a specialty page that reflects an actively-staffed search pipeline.

Specialty pages and the rest of the site

Each /specialties/{slug} page is the overview hub. Each /{specialty}-recruiters page is the recruiter-facing money page — comp ranges, demand signal, why the specialty is hard to recruit, our process, FAQ. Each /salary/{specialty} page is the salary deep-dive with state-level breakdowns. And each job listing under /jobs is filterable by specialty. Most employers start on the -recruiters page; most physician candidates start on /specialties/{slug} or /salary/{specialty}.

How specialty demand has shifted since 2020

Five demand shifts have reshaped the specialty mix we recruit since 2020. (1) Psychiatry demand has roughly doubled — driven by post-pandemic mental health volume, telepsychiatry expansion, and continued residency-pipeline undersupply. (2) Hospitalist program growth has continued in every market with a 50+ bed hospital, and nocturnist coverage is now a structural rather than supplemental search. (3) Pulmonology/Critical Care demand reset upward during the pandemic and never returned to baseline — ICU coverage call structures changed permanently in most community hospitals. (4) Anesthesiology demand has accelerated as ASC growth and CRNA staffing pressures have compounded. (5) GI demand keeps climbing as screening colonoscopy volume, GLP-1 prescribing follow-up, and IBD epidemiology compound — and PE consolidation has reshaped recruitment dynamics inside many GI partnerships. Each of these shifts is reflected in current MGMA/AAMC compensation benchmarks and in the demand signals listed on the per-specialty pages above.

Subspecialty fellowship coverage

Subspecialty fellowships drive the hardest searches we run: interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, structural heart, advanced endoscopy, MFM, REI, Gyn Onc, Mohs surgery, dermatopathology, MIS, surgical oncology, trauma/critical care, pediatric surgical subspecialties, neuro-interventional, transplant nephrology, addiction psychiatry, child & adolescent psychiatry, pediatric heme/onc, advanced heart failure, and pulmonary hypertension. Each of these is its own candidate pipeline; ask during scoping if your role requires fellowship credentials beyond the primary specialty board.

Engage a specialty recruiter

Email hire@physicianrecruitment.com or call 346-515-5160. We respond within 1 business day.