IMG friendly Psychiatry Residency Programs
Psychiatry is the main target for many qualified IMGs
Psychiatry with about 2400 positions offered is friendly enough to be the main target for many IMGs. Around 1700 US MDs and 700 US DOs applied to Psychiatry residency positions. But just around 2000 positions were filled by US graduates with around 400 positions left for IMGs. Around 900 IMGs applied to psychiatry and around 700 had interviews and participated in the Match. 178 US IMGs and 185 non-US IMGs were matched. The match rate is about 40% for US IMGs and non-US IMGs. The probability of the match for interviewed applicants starts from 30% for candidates with ~220 Step 2 score and increases to near 65% for candidates with Step 2 > 260.
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Top Psychiatry IMG friendly states based on PGY-1 main residency Match statistics
Top Psychiatry IMG friendly by number
- New York (89 IMGs)
- Florida (57 IMGs)
- Texas (40 IMGs)
- California (16 IMGs)
- Missouri (13 IMGs)
- Connecticut (12 IMGs)
- Massachusetts (11 IMGs)
- New Jersey (11 IMGs)
- Louisiana (11 IMGs)
- North Carolina (10 IMGs)
- Virginia (10 IMGs)
- Alabama (9 IMGs)
- Michigan (9 IMGs)
- Ohio (9 IMGs)
- Maryland (8 IMGs)
Top Psychiatry IMG friendly by percent
- Montana (66% IMGs)
- North Dakota (50% IMGs)
- New Mexico (37% IMGs)
- Kansas (35% IMGs)
- Florida (33% IMGs)
- New York (28% IMGs)
- Connecticut (27% IMGs)
- Mississippi (26% IMGs)
- Puerto Rico (26% IMGs)
- Louisiana (25% IMGs)
- Missouri (25% IMGs)
- Alabama (24% IMGs)
- Texas (22% IMGs)
- Virginia (21% IMGs)
- Tennessee (21% IMGs)
Psychiatry PGY-1 main residency Match percent IMGs by year
Psychiatry total PGY-1 positions offered and percent of IMGs filled by year
| Year | Positions | IMGs | IMGs % | US IMG % | Non-US IMG % |
| 2026 | 2516 | 399 | 16 | 7 | 9 |
| 2025 | 2388 | 343 | 13 | 6 | 7 |
| 2024 | 2261 | 363 | 15 | 7 | 8 |
| 2023 | 2164 | 351 | 15 | 9 | 6 |
| 2022 | 2047 | 321 | 15 | 9 | 6 |
| 2021 | 1907 | 309 | 15 | 9 | 6 |
| 2020 | 1858 | 293 | 15 | 8 | 7 |
| 2019 | 1715 | 275 | 15 | 8 | 7 |
| 2018 | 1556 | 264 | 16 | 8 | 8 |
| 2017 | 1495 | 303 | 20 | 11 | 9 |