Residency serves as a crucial phase in a physician's training, following the completion of medical school. It is a supervised clinical training period and an intensive, full-time job—requiring 60-80 hours per week—which provides physicians, also referred to as residents or trainees, with hands-on experience and increasing autonomy in delivering health care under the guidance of experienced ...
From fact-finding to budgeting for potential interviews, the AMA’s go-to resource for searching medical residency programs has you covered.
Selecting a medical residency is an important decision that can significantly shape your medical career. For more than 25 years, medical students have looked to FREIDA™, the AMA Residency & Fellowship Database® to get vital information about residency and fellowship programs.
The Match process can be filled with twists and turns. Find resources to successfully navigate the process of selecting and applying to residency programs.
The 2026 Main Residency Match was again the largest in the program’s 74-year history, with 44,344 total positions offered—up 2.6% over 2025, which was until this year the highest. There were 1,107 more certified positions offered this year compared with last year, 183 more certified programs and 412 more positions in primary care.
The latest data gathered by the AMA and the Association of American Medical Colleges as part of their annual National GME Census offers a snapshot of the thousands of U.S. residency training programs—and the physicians in them. The data— published in JAMA® —is drawn from a survey of 13,082 residency training programs in the U.S. in 2024–2025, relaying information about 162,264 active ...
After physician residency applicants submit and certify their rank order list, there isn’t much else left to do but wait on Match Day. In a few weeks— as was the case in 2024 —the overwhelming majority of senior applicants from U.S. allopathic and osteopathic medical schools will find a training position through the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Main Residency Match.