Table 1.
Classification of medical specialties based on the opinion of 137 independent raters (who were medical doctors) assessing whether each field poses settings of high, average, or low emotional exhaustion.
| High | Emergentology |
| Oncology | |
| Pediatrics | |
| Psychiatry | |
| Surgery | |
| Toxicology | |
| Traumatology | |
| Average | Anesthesiology |
| Cardiology | |
| Internal Medicine | |
| Gastroenterology | |
| Gerontology | |
| Infections diseases | |
| Nephrology | |
| Neurology | |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | |
| Pulmonology | |
| Low | Allergy |
| Dermatology | |
| Diagnostic Imaging | |
| Ear, Nose and Throat | |
| Endocrinology | |
| Family Medicine / General Practitioners | |
| Genetics | |
| Hematology | |
| Immunoloy | |
| Legal Medicine | |
| Nutrition | |
| Ophthalmology | |
| Pathology | |
| Pharmacology | |
| Public Health |