Paying Surveys for Doctors

Medical surveys are an easy way to make a few bucks at a good hourly rate (well, maybe at least for a resident), and there are multiple sites offering surveys to physicians. The caveat is that, of course, most survey sponsors are typically looking for board-certified physicians with multiple years of experience, particularly in sub-specialties. The less experience you have, the more you need to be prepared to get screened out of what seem like promising survey opportunities.

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Curizon has been in the business a long time, but they just completely revamped their website and platform. It’s a trusted site for well-paying healthcare surveys for physicians as well as other healthcare professionals. Five new sign-ups per month will win $100.

One of the biggest survey sites is Sermo (also an online healthcare community), which is now offering my readers a $10 welcome bonus. The survey experience has been recently revamped, and once you maintain a balance of $100 in honoraria, you get preferentially invited to more surveys.

ZoomRx is also excellent and has a nice app and better/shorter-than-average surveys. No sign-up bonus for you, but there is a referral one for me if you’d like to support the site!

One of my very favorites is InCrowd, which has a slick mobile-friendly site and will send you survey opportunities by email or text message. These are always of the very short and painless variety (the fastest of all in my experience), so the payouts are small, but it’s good money for the time and basically effortless. You do have to respond quickly before surveys fill up, but you even get a buck when you get screened out. Being referred (like signing up through that link) will earn you a $10 bonus after you answer your first two microsurveys.

M3 now has three separate very active research companies under its umbrella: M3 Global Research, M-Panels, and All Global Circle. Each is currently offering its own $10 sign-up bonus for twelve select specialties (Hematology-Oncology, Surgery, Urology, Neurology, Family Medicine or General Practice, Psychiatry, Ophthalmology, Endocrinology/Diabetes, Dermatology, Radiology, Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Otorhinolaryngology/ENT, and Pulmonology).

At the resident level, one of my old favorites has been Brand Institute, which almost exclusively sends out short surveys about potential drug brand names. Payouts are always on the smaller side ($15), but each one is quick (about $1 per minute or more) and screen-outs are rare. So if you get invited to a survey, then you can generally complete it and get the honoraria. No BS. The main style/format is nearly always the same, so you pick up speed as you do more of them. And that honoraria size is also significantly larger than what one can generally pull as a non-physician (e.g. SurveySavvy, the biggest most popular survey site around, usually pays a measly $2 per survey). The website, however, is clunky and terrible. You’ve been warned.

Additional legitimate additional survey sites, many of which are significantly less active, are below:

• ImpactNetwork
• Reckner Healthcare
• OpinionSite
• MDforLives is a newer company that I cannot recommend at this time.
• Olson Research Group
• CurbsideMe (now defunct)
• Epocrates Honors
• DoctorDirectory
• MedSurvey
• Advanced Medical Reviews
• Physicians Round Table
• Truth on Call (text-message based surveys; not sure this is meaningfully active anymore)
• MedQuery
• Medical Advisory Board
• Healthcare Advisory Bureau
• SurveyRx
• Physicians Advisory Council
• Health Strategies Group
• InspiredOpinions (Schlesinger Associates)
• Medefield
• Encuity Research
• e-Rewards Medical
• Physicians Interactive