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What Physicians Really Feel About the State of Medicine: Offcall & Women in Medicine's 2026 State of Medicine Report

Offcall (https://www.offcall.com/) is a new platform built for and by physicians to restore physician autonomy. Women in Medicine (https://www.wimedicine.org/) empowers women in healthcare through education, leadership, mentorship, and advocacy. Together, we're collecting responses to the short questions below (takes 2 mins!) and will publish the results as a joint 2026 State of Medicine Report. This is NOT another employer survey: Our goal is to capture what physicians truly feel about medicine today so we can advocate for the changes we collectively want to see. Thank you in advance for participating!! Rest assured everything is 100% confidential and anonymous.

1. What is your email address (will be kept confidential and not shared)?

2. What is your specialty?

3. (Optional) If subspecialty, feel free to share more details.

4. How many years have you been practicing after the completion of your training?

5. How transparent do you feel your employer is about physician compensation decisions?

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E

6. Do you trust that compensation decisions at your organization are made fairly?

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B
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E

7. Overall, how fairly do you feel you are compensated for your work?

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8. How likely are you to look for a new position in the next 12 months?

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E

9. (Optional) Would you leave your position for an opportunity that gave you more autonomy?

10. What are the primary reasons you would consider leaving your current role? (Select all that apply)

11. (Optional) If you selected Other, tell us why in 1 sentence...

12. On a scale of 1 to 5, how likely are you to leave hospital medicine for some form of private practice (5 most likely, 1 least likely)?

13. On a scale of 1 to 5, how likely are you to leave clinical medicine for something non clinical? (5 most likely, 1 least likely)?

14. How much do you feel each of these contribute to making medicine a more difficult profession?

Not At All
A Little
A Good Amount
Significantly
Administrative burden
Prior auth
Documentation
Staff shortages
Productivity pressure
Compensation
EHR
Insurance
AI Uncertainty
Corporate Ownership

15. How optimistic has AI made you about practicing medicine?

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B
C
D
E

16. (Optional) Tell us why you answered this way in a few words.

17. Do you believe women face unique career obstacles today compared to their male colleagues?

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B
C

18. How much do you feel each of these contributes to the unique challenges women physicians face compared to their male colleagues?

Not At All
A Little
Somewhat
A Lot
Promotion
Leadership
Pay
Harassment
Work-life balance (childcare, eldercare, etc.)
Patient bias
Menopause and perimenopause
Colleague bias

19. Complete the sentence. Medicine today makes me feel...

20. (Optional) If you selected Other, tell us the word or short phrase you would use.

21. If you had complete financial freedom tomorrow, would you...

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E

22. What's the #1 change to medicine that would make you enjoy the profession more?

23. Compared to 10 years ago, do you feel medicine is become a more respected or less respected profession?

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E

24. Would you recommend a career in medicine to someone you care about?

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B
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E