Medical Residency in Illinois
Illinois specific initial medical license requirements
- Minimum 2 years of postgraduate training.
- Combined 5 attempts at all USMLE exams.
- 7 years to complete USMLE.
- Combined 5 attempts at all COMLEX exams.
- No time limit for COMLEX
- Accepts Federation Credentials Verification Service
PGY-1 residency positions in Illinois
- Internal medicine (539)
- Family medicine (221)
- Pediatrics (157)
- Emergency medicine (145)
- Surgery (114)
- Anesthesiology (92)
- Psychiatry (77)
- Obstetrics and gynecology (68)
- Transitional year (50)
- Neurology (35)
- Orthopaedic surgery (35)
- Pathology-anatomic and clinical (31)
- Internal Medicine-Pediatrics (24)
- Otolaryngology - Head and Neck surgery (18)
- Plastic surgery - Integrated (15)
- Neurological surgery (15)
- Radiology-diagnostic (13)
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation (10)
- Child neurology (6)
- Interventional radiology - integrated (6)
- Dermatology (3)
- Thoracic surgery - integrated (2)
- Radiation oncology (1)
Top size residency programs in Illinois by specialty
Specialty ID Program
Dermatology 0801621031 McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Dermatology residency program
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Percent MD,DO,IMG residents matched PGY-1 in Illinois (main match)
Illinois PGY-1 main residency Match statistics
| Year | Positions | Filled(%) | MD | DO | IMGs |
| 2026 | 1677 | 95.9 | 958 (57%) | 295 (17%) | 356 (21%) |
| 2025 | 1651 | 95.2 | 958 (58%) | 301 (18%) | 312 (18%) |
| 2024 | 1656 | 95.0 | 929 (56%) | 291 (17%) | 354 (21%) |
| 2023 | 1634 | 96.5 | 893 (54%) | 326 (19%) | 356 (21%) |
| 2022 | 1632 | 96.4 | 932 (57%) | 307 (18%) | 334 (20%) |
| 2021 | 1604 | 96.9 | 899 (56%) | 307 (19%) | 348 (21%) |
| 2020 | 1619 | 97.2 | 940 (58%) | 298 (18%) | 334 (20%) |
| 2019 | 1561 | 96.5 | 891 (57%) | 262 (16%) | 354 (22%) |
| 2018 | 1479 | 98.2 | 920 (62%) | 186 (12%) | 347 (23%) |
| 2017 | 1451 | 95.7 | 884 (60%) | 162 (11%) | 343 (23%) |
PGY-2 residency positions in Illinois
- Radiology-diagnostic (41)
- Dermatology (25)
- Neurology (20)
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation (19)
- Anesthesiology (15)
- Radiation oncology (7)
- Interventional radiology - integrated (6)
Percent MD,DO,IMG residents matched PGY-2 in Illinois (main match)
Illinois PGY-2 main residency Match statistics
| Year | Positions | Filled(%) | MD | DO | IMGs |
| 2026 | 133 | 100.0 | 112 (84%) | 14 (10%) | 7 (5%) |
| 2025 | 132 | 100.0 | 114 (86%) | 13 (9%) | 5 (3%) |
| 2024 | 130 | 99.2 | 110 (84%) | 14 (10%) | 5 (3%) |
| 2023 | 125 | 97.6 | 106 (84%) | 11 (8%) | 4 (3%) |
| 2022 | 128 | 99.2 | 107 (83%) | 16 (12%) | 4 (3%) |
| 2021 | 127 | 99.2 | 99 (77%) | 16 (12%) | 11 (8%) |
| 2020 | 131 | 96.9 | 94 (71%) | 18 (13%) | 15 (11%) |
| 2019 | 143 | 99.3 | 110 (76%) | 23 (16%) | 9 (6%) |
| 2018 | 144 | 100.0 | 111 (77%) | 23 (15%) | 10 (6%) |
| 2017 | 155 | 99.4 | 117 (75%) | 23 (14%) | 14 (9%) |