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Anesthesiology residency in numbers

The number of anesthesiology positions increased by 55% over the past 10 years. Today 188 anesthesiology programs offer about 1860 PGY-1 positions and 52 programs offer more than 300 PGY-2 positions. It's about 4% of all residency positions. Most of the matched applicants are US MDs - 73%. Also, 18% DOs and just 7% IMGs. The proportion is stable over the past years. Very close to 100% are filled during the main match and near nothing left for the SOAP. Anesthesiology is enough competitive specialty with a high percent of matched US MDs, relatively high mean scores of matched candidates, and 89%,78%,50% match rates among interviewed US MDs, DOs, and IMGs respectively.

PGY-1 Anesthesiology residency positions by state

Number of Anesthesiology positions by state based on PGY-1 main residency Match

Most competitive Anesthesiology residencies - Top 20 ranking

ID / Ranking Program State

0402421066 / 10.0 Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women's Hospital Massachusetts

0400521025 / 10.0 Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University California

0403521098 / 10.0 New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus) New York

0402431064 / 10.0 Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts

0403521104 / 10.0 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai Hospital New York

0403511107 / 10.0 New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) —

0404121134 / 10.0 University of Pennsylvania Health System Pennsylvania

0403631115 / 10.0 Duke University Hospital North Carolina

0400521023 / 9.5 University of California (San Francisco) California

0402521071 / 9.5 University of Michigan Michigan

0402321058 / 9.5 Johns Hopkins University Anesthesiology residency program Maryland

0401621042 / 9.5 McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Illinois

0400521020 / 9.5 UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center California

0404121139 / 9.5 UPMC Medical Education Pennsylvania

0404821147 / 9.5 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Anesthesiology residency program Texas

0401221037 / 9.5 Emory University School of Medicine Georgia

0405421161 / 9.5 University of Washington Washington

0400521019 / 9.5 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center California

0404831150 / 9.0 Baylor College of Medicine Texas

0403321087 / 9.0 Rutgers Health/New Jersey Medical School New Jersey

Top 10 most competitive Anesthesiology residencies with %DO > 25

ID / Ranking Program State

0404121137 / 8.5 Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University/TJUH Pennsylvania

0402021053 / 8.5 University of Louisville School of Medicine Kentucky

0403321180 / 8.5 Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School New Jersey

0401911050 / 8.0 University of Kansas School of Medicine Kansas

0401211038 / 8.0 Medical College of Georgia Georgia

0400500001 / 8.0 HCA Healthcare/Los Robles Regional Medical Center California

0401611046 / 8.0 Loyola University Medical Center Illinois

0404111130 / 8.0 Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center Pennsylvania

0401621043 / 8.0 Rush University Medical Center Anesthesiology residency program Illinois

0402711077 / 8.0 University of Mississippi Medical Center Mississippi

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Percent MD,DO,IMG Anesthesiology PGY-1 residents (main match)

Percent of PGY-1 Anesthesiology MDs, DOs and IMGs by year

Anesthesiology PGY-1 main residency Match statistics

Year Positions Filled(%) MD DO IMGs
2026 1865 100.0 1374 (73 %) 352 (18 %) 138 (7 %)
2025 1805 99.9 1350 (74 %) 321 (17 %) 131 (7 %)
2024 1695 100.0 1256 (74 %) 303 (17 %) 135 (7 %)
2023 1609 99.8 1219 (75 %) 260 (16 %) 127 (7 %)
2022 1509 99.9 1107 (73 %) 283 (18 %) 118 (7 %)
2021 1460 99.8 1062 (72 %) 278 (19 %) 116 (7 %)
2020 1370 99.9 961 (70 %) 271 (19 %) 136 (9 %)
2019 1322 98.4 914 (69 %) 248 (18 %) 139 (10 %)
2018 1253 97.8 894 (71 %) 206 (16 %) 126 (10 %)
2017 1202 95.3 823 (68 %) 164 (13 %) 159 (13 %)
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PGY-2 Anesthesiology residency positions by state

  1. New York (51)
  2. California (46)
  3. Florida (31)
  4. Indiana (30)
  5. Rhode Island (24)
  6. Maryland (17)
  7. Illinois (15)
  8. Massachusetts (14)
  9. Pennsylvania (13)
  10. New Jersey (12)
  11. Arizona (7)
  12. Colorado (7)
  13. Michigan (6)
  14. Connecticut (6)
  15. District of Columbia (5)
  16. Utah (4)
  17. Washington (4)
  18. Ohio (4)
  19. Texas (3)
  20. Virginia (2)
  21. Nebraska (2)
  22. Oregon (2)
  23. Missouri (1)
Number of Anesthesiology positions by state based on PGY-2 main residency Match

Percent MD,DO,IMG Anesthesiology PGY-2 residents (main match)

Percent of PGY-2 Anesthesiology MDs, DOs and IMGs by year

Anesthesiology PGY-2 main residency Match statistics

Year Positions Filled(%) MD DO IMGs
2026 306 100.0 238 (77 %) 48 (15 %) 20 (6 %)
2025 311 99.7 234 (75 %) 49 (15 %) 27 (8 %)
2024 305 100.0 228 (74 %) 41 (13 %) 36 (11 %)
2023 301 100.0 228 (75 %) 51 (16 %) 21 (6 %)
2022 346 100.0 255 (73 %) 60 (17 %) 31 (8 %)
2021 339 100.0 236 (69 %) 74 (21 %) 29 (8 %)
2020 398 99.5 276 (69 %) 70 (17 %) 50 (12 %)
2019 425 98.1 264 (62 %) 96 (22 %) 57 (13 %)
2018 447 98.9 267 (59 %) 75 (16 %) 99 (22 %)
2017 441 93.9 256 (58 %) 63 (14 %) 95 (21 %)

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