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Psychiatry residency in numbers

The number of Psychiatry positions increased by 68% over the past 10 years. More than 350 programs offer 2516 positions. It is around 5.6% of all available residency positions. The proportion of matched US MDs, DOs, and IMGs is around 58%, 23%, 15% respectively. This proportion have not changed significantly over the past years. 99% of residency positions are filled during the main match. Psychiatry residency positions were filled by around 6.5% of all matched US MDs, 5% of all matched DOs, and 4% of matched IMGs. Psychiatry is the top choice for many qualified applicants.

PGY-1 Psychiatry residency positions by state

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

Most competitive Psychiatry residencies - Top 20 ranking

ID / Ranking Program State

4000531033 / 10.0 Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University California

4002321081 / 10.0 Johns Hopkins University Maryland

4004121197 / 10.0 University of Pennsylvania Health System Psychiatry residency program Pennsylvania

4003511147 / 10.0 New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus) Psychiatry residency program New York

4002421288 / 10.0 Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital Massachusetts

4002431277 / 9.5 Mass General Brigham/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School —

4003521138 / 9.5 New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus)/New York State Psychiatric Institute New York

4003521149 / 9.0 NYU Grossman School of Medicine —

4002400304 / 9.0 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Massachusetts

4000521030 / 9.0 University of California (San Francisco) California

4001621063 / 9.0 University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago Psychiatry residency program Illinois

4000821042 / 9.0 Yale-New Haven Medical Center Connecticut

4002411094 / 9.0 Cambridge Health Alliance Massachusetts

4001021047 / 8.5 MedStar Health/Georgetown University Hospital District of Columbia

4001621060 / 8.5 McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Illinois

4004711208 / 8.5 Vanderbilt University Medical Center Tennessee

4000521025 / 8.5 UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center California

4004131198 / 8.5 UPMC Medical Education Pennsylvania

4004813299 / 8.5 University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Texas

4003521270 / 8.5 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Morningside/West New York

Top 10 most competitive Psychiatry residencies with %DO > 25

ID / Ranking Program State

4002211080 / 7.5 MaineHealth Maine

4005121223 / 7.5 Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Virginia

4004800308 / 7.5 Texas A&M University School of Medicine Texas

4000321012 / 7.5 University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson Arizona

4004531205 / 7.5 Prisma Health/University of South Carolina SOM Columbia (Columbia) South Carolina

4003621171 / 7.5 Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center North Carolina

4001500001 / 7.0 University of Washington (Boise) Psychiatry residency program Idaho

4004831218 / 7.0 University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine Texas

4003600172 / 7.0 Carolinas Medical Center North Carolina

4001621064 / 7.0 Loyola University Medical Center Illinois

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

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

Psychiatry PGY-1 main residency Match statistics

Year Positions Filled(%) MD DO IMGs
2026 2516 97.4 1464 (58 %) 587 (23 %) 399 (15 %)
2025 2388 99.7 1473 (61 %) 564 (23 %) 343 (14 %)
2024 2261 99.5 1368 (60 %) 515 (22 %) 363 (16 %)
2023 2164 99.0 1375 (63 %) 416 (19 %) 351 (16 %)
2022 2047 99.2 1298 (63 %) 411 (20 %) 321 (15 %)
2021 1907 99.8 1246 (65 %) 349 (18 %) 309 (16 %)
2020 1858 98.9 1188 (63 %) 356 (19 %) 293 (15 %)
2019 1715 98.8 1090 (63 %) 329 (19 %) 275 (16 %)
2018 1556 99.0 1025 (65 %) 251 (16 %) 264 (16 %)
2017 1495 99.7 972 (65 %) 216 (14 %) 303 (20 %)
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