2025 Specialty Discussions Pt. 16 - Pediatrics

Hey everyone!

Thank you so much to everyone who’s been following along with this series and showing their support. In case anyone has missed the previous posts, you can check out the Master List of discussions here. For anyone new, this series is aiming to help generate discussions about all of the different Canadian medical specialties. I’m hoping this will help us learn more about what the different pathways in medicine actually look like!

Based on your requests from previous posts, today we're looking at the only doctors who can get away with wearing dino-themed scrubs to work: Pediatricians!

Looking quickly at the field:

• Match rate: 0.97 seats/1st choice discipline
• Average compensation: $345K in Ontario
• Average hours worked: 49 hours/week
• Satisfaction with work-life balance: 50% satisfied or very satisfied

For those of you who have worked in or are interested in Pediatrics:

• What drew you to (or away from) pediatrics?
• What are your thoughts about the lifestyle within peds? How does it differ in residency?
• Is it ever challenging to work with both kids and their caregivers?
• On average, the renumeration seems quite low in peds. Why is this the case?
• What pros/cons should people consider about this field?

Please feel free to add your own questions below! If there's a specialty you want to see next in the series, let me know! There's quite a long list of requests now, but if any in particular gets a large amount of support from others I'd be happy to bump it up!

As always, thank you to everyone for your ongoing interest in this series!