Table 4.

Expected and actual physician retirement age

	50–59 years	60–69 years	>70 years	“Never”
Expected retirement age	Burke [76] Eagles [30] Luce [7] Fletcher [38] Mears [41] Goldberg [57] Sansom [28]	Anderson [37] Dietch [48] Dodds [46] Farley [39] Florence [81] Grondin [61] Mears [41] French [36] French [23] Gee [82] Pit [45] Rayburn [31] Shanafelt [53] Smith [91] Wakeford [18]	Batchelor [22]	Draper [40]
Actual retirement age	Baker [52] Eagles [30] Sansom [28]	Anderson [37] Austrom [58] Batchelor [22] Farley [39] Fletcher [38] French [36] Jonasson [84] Meghea [54] Luce [7] Orkin [34] Rayburn [31] Rowe [90] Van Greuningen [17] Wakeford [18]	Joyce [42] Rayburn [31]	–

Note: Average or highest reported retirement ages are reported.

Studies where the majority of physicians met retirement age expectations are in italics