Table 1.

Annual attrition proportion by gender

	Male Physicians		Female Physicians
	# in EM workforce	% attrition	# in EM workforce	% attrition
2013	18,079	3.3%	6,753	2.8%
2014	18,536	3.4%	7,174	3.3%
2015	18,956	3.3%	7,528	3.9%
2016	19,529	3.6%	7,968	3.4%
2017	20,206	4.3%	8,391	4.2%
2018	20,655	4.4%	8,740	4.2%
2019	21,307	7.4%	9,135	8.2%

Note – The year listed is the last year the physician was identified to provide clinical services, defined as exhibiting attrition. For example, 974 (3.5%) of 27,497 physicians left the workforce in 2016 and were not identified to provide clinical services in 2017–2020. Stratified by gender, this included 702 (3.6%) of 19,529 male and 272 (3.4%) of 7,968 female EM physicians.