WalletHub recently released a list of the best and worst states to practice medicine, ranking them with an average of two criteria: medical environment and opportunity and competition.
The financial website evaluated medical environment based on eight metrics: quality of public hospital systems, hospital safety, presence of nationally accredited health departments, physician assistants per capita, punitiveness of state medical board, malpractice award payout amount per capita, annual malpractice liability insurance rate and physician burnout.
Here are the top 10 states to practice in based on medical environment:
|
State |
Medical Environment |
Overall Rank |
|
Utah |
1 |
7 |
|
Nebraska |
2 |
8 |
|
North Carolina |
3 |
22 |
|
Montana |
4 |
1 |
|
Idaho |
5 |
3 |
|
Minnesota |
6 |
5 |
|
Virginia |
7 |
30 |
|
South Dakota |
8 |
2 |
|
Tennessee |
9 |
13 |
|
Colorado |
10 |
11 |