The number of anesthesiology positions increased by 23% over the past 5 years. Today 178 anesthesiology programs offer around 1700 PGY-1 positions and 52 programs offer around 300 PGY-2 positions. It's about 4% of all residency positions. Most of the matched applicants are US MDs - 75%. Also, 17% DOs and just 7% IMGs. The proportion is stable over the past years. Around 100% of positions 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.
Year | Positions | Filled(%) | MD | DO | IMGs |
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 %) |
Year | Positions | Filled(%) | MD | DO | IMGs |
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 %) |