Do doctors pay to have profiles listed in Castle Connolly Guides?
No. Doctors cannot and do not pay to have their profiles listed in any Castle Connolly guide. They are selected based on nominations by their peers and reviewed by Castle Connolly’s physician-directed research team. How Castle Connolly Makes Its “Top Doctors” Selections Castle Connolly’s Top Doctors™ selection process begins with surveys of physicians and healthcare professionals. Each year, Castle Connolly surveys thousands of physicians and other healthcare professionals and asks them to identify excellent doctors in every specialty in their region and throughout the nation. When we began the research for the first edition of America’s Top Doctors®, we surveyed over 230,000 of the nation’s leading medical specialists, department chairs, residency program directors, vice presidents of medical affairs and presidents of the nation’s leading medical centers and specialty hospitals. In addition to mail and online surveys, the Castle Connolly physician-led research team makes thousands of
