IMG friendly Residency Programs in Illinois
IMG residency in Illinois
With around 350 matched IMGs, Illinois is the eights friendly state by the number of positions filled by IMGs. Some IMG friendly specialties like pathology (72%), internal medicine(34%), family medicine(32%) and neurology(29%) have a really high percent of IMGs. It is not possible to say the same about the rest of the commonly IMG friendly specialties.
Illinois Medical Licensing Board requirements:
- Minimum 2 years of postgraduate training.
- Combined 5 attempts at all USMLE exams.
- 7 years to complete USMLE.
Top 10 IMG friendly residencies in Illinois
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Top IMG friendly specialties in Illinois based on PGY-1 main residency Match statistics
Top IMG friendly in Illinois by number
- Internal medicine (180 IMGs)
- Family medicine (67 IMGs)
- Pediatrics (46 IMGs)
- Surgery (14 IMGs)
- Anesthesiology (11 IMGs)
- Pathology-anatomic and clinical (9 IMGs)
- Neurology (8 IMGs)
- Psychiatry (6 IMGs)
- Emergency medicine (5 IMGs)
- Obstetrics and gynecology (5 IMGs)
Top IMG friendly in Illinois by percent
- Family medicine (34% IMGs)
- Internal medicine (33% IMGs)
- Pediatrics (31% IMGs)
- Pathology-anatomic and clinical (29% IMGs)
- Neurology (22% IMGs)
- Surgery (15% IMGs)
- Anesthesiology (11% IMGs)
- Psychiatry (8% IMGs)
- Obstetrics and gynecology (7% IMGs)
- Neurological surgery (6% IMGs)
