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2. Psychiatry

Score: 28

All of you thinking of applying for Psychiatry residency; better think again. For starters, you’ll hardly be the ones to treat the Mafia boss like Tony Soprano, and you are highly unlikely to charge triple digits for a session. Average yearly salary of $227,478 is a more likely outcome, but at least you won’t need high Step test scores. In fact, they are exactly 10 points below the national average of 236.5 as 220 and 233 equal to a mean value of 226.5. Add to that 1.77 open positions per US applicant and there you go.

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