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Our lists of medical residencies in the United States contain 5923 programs in 31 specialties
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Residency program list is an important step to residency
How do I get a medical residency in the USA? - This is a common question not only for foreign medical school graduates but for many American students. Every year, programs receive anywhere from a few hundred to thousands of applications. While this number varies by specialty, even less competitive programs need to develop minimum initial filtering requirements in order to process such a huge number of applications. As result, USMLE scores, first attempt passage, clinical experience in the United States, time since graduation are very important for a successful application to a particular program. Additionally, the program can prefer exclusively U.S. MDs, DOs, IMGs or just U.S. IMGs, Caribbean graduates, etc. This is why it is very important to choose the right programs to apply to when submitting documents via Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).
There are a lot of U.S. medical residency databases on the internet. AMA's FREIDA medical residencies list provides information about minimum USMLE requirements, program work schedule, features, benefits, contacts and additional information self-reported by programs. FREIDA shows locations of participating institutions, filters residency training programs by specialty, program type, location, first-year salary, visa, percentage IMGs, total positions, etc. Therefore, FREIDA is a convenient source of information for U.S. medical graduates and an important source of basic information for IMGs.
AAMC Residency Explorer Tool provides statistics about the number of applications, scores, sex, race, medical schools and other characteristics of matched candidates collected during the past several years for many programs. As an important feature for IMGs, this tool shows percentages of US and non-US international medical graduates matched into the program. Residency Explorer also compares your profile with profiles of matched candidates and provides basic search, bookmarking, and export features.
So, what is the difference between the Residency Programs List (RPL), Residency Explorer Tool and FREIDA database? First of all, Residency Programs List (RPL) is targeted at providing information about: 1) absolute cut-off and preferred (soft cut-off) scores, which are currently hard to find in public sources but are still officially provided by many programs and are very important for many applicants, 2) program-specific requirements for U.S. graduates, like number of USMLE attempts and COMLEX acceptence, 3) specific requirements for IMG applicants, such as required months of U.S. clinical experience, hands-on USCE requirements, and time-since-graduation preferences. Also, since 2017, Residency Programs List (RPL) has collected the most complete database of historical information about current residents' schools and countries, which makes it possible to analyze program graduation preferences. The second direction is collecting information about new programs, lesser-known programs that have accepted IMGs, and programs that are willing to accept IMGs. The third direction is ranking programs by the probability of being inclined toward a certain IMG candidate, as well as by program reputation and competitiveness for U.S. graduates. ResidencyProgramsList provides program signaling and geographical preference analysis to make an informed choice easier. While this information is collected throughout the year, we contact programs and update program requirements right before applications start to get the most up-to-date data. All of these together make Residency Programs List (RPL) an important tool for finding the right medical residency programs in the USA. RPL focuses strictly on the high-impact data that drives your match decisions. Because every applicant is unique, we provide distinct, customized datasets for U.S. MDs, U.S. DOs, US IMGs, visa requiring and not visa requiering non-US IMGs. Sort programs to your exact preference, flip through them using the "Next" button, and easily bookmark programs or jot down personal notes as you research. Our list of residency programs provides the most advanced search engine, unique ranking algorithms, and a user-friendly interface to streamline your application and find the best residency programs for success. Read more on our FAQ page.