Medical Residency in Texas
Texas specific initial medical license requirements
- 1 year of postgraduate training. 2 years for IMGs.
- Up to 3 attempts at each USMLE Step or COMLEX Level exam.
- 7 years to complete USMLE/COMLEX. Up to 10 years if MD/PhD waiver.
- Accepts Federation Credentials Verification Service.
PGY-1 residency positions in Texas
- Internal medicine (878)
- Family medicine (347)
- Pediatrics (233)
- Emergency medicine (216)
- Surgery (213)
- Psychiatry (176)
- Obstetrics and gynecology (146)
- Anesthesiology (125)
- Neurology (98)
- Transitional year (87)
- Orthopaedic surgery (63)
- Pathology-anatomic and clinical (47)
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation (28)
- Otolaryngology - Head and Neck surgery (23)
- Internal Medicine-Pediatrics (21)
- Child neurology (20)
- Neurological surgery (17)
- Plastic surgery - Integrated (16)
- Radiology-diagnostic (10)
- Interventional radiology - integrated (4)
- Pediatrics/Medical Genetics (4)
- Thoracic surgery - integrated (3)
- Medical genetics and genomics (1)
Top size residency programs in Texas by specialty
Specialty ID Program
Dermatology 0804821085 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dermatology residency program
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Percent MD,DO,IMG residents matched PGY-1 in Texas (main match)
Texas PGY-1 main residency Match statistics
| Year | Positions | Filled(%) | MD | DO | IMGs |
| 2026 | 2776 | 94.6 | 1388 (50%) | 597 (21%) | 642 (23%) |
| 2025 | 2645 | 94.3 | 1365 (51%) | 559 (21%) | 569 (21%) |
| 2024 | 2523 | 96.1 | 1355 (53%) | 506 (20%) | 564 (22%) |
| 2023 | 2445 | 93.0 | 1328 (54%) | 470 (19%) | 477 (19%) |
| 2022 | 2369 | 93.2 | 1350 (56%) | 421 (17%) | 436 (18%) |
| 2021 | 2298 | 93.5 | 1301 (56%) | 438 (19%) | 409 (17%) |
| 2020 | 2149 | 93.3 | 1286 (59%) | 358 (16%) | 361 (16%) |
| 2019 | 1979 | 95.8 | 1243 (62%) | 294 (14%) | 357 (18%) |
| 2018 | 1861 | 96.2 | 1177 (63%) | 247 (13%) | 367 (19%) |
| 2017 | 1846 | 96.0 | 1198 (64%) | 197 (10%) | 377 (20%) |
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PGY-2 residency positions in Texas
- Radiology-diagnostic (72)
- Dermatology (45)
- Radiation oncology (15)
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation (13)
- Interventional radiology - integrated (12)
- Anesthesiology (3)
Percent MD,DO,IMG residents matched PGY-2 in Texas (main match)
Texas PGY-2 main residency Match statistics
| Year | Positions | Filled(%) | MD | DO | IMGs |
| 2026 | 160 | 98.1 | 126 (78%) | 18 (11%) | 13 (8%) |
| 2025 | 165 | 98.8 | 123 (74%) | 27 (16%) | 13 (7%) |
| 2024 | 160 | 98.8 | 128 (80%) | 17 (10%) | 13 (8%) |
| 2023 | 160 | 100.0 | 132 (82%) | 18 (11%) | 10 (6%) |
| 2022 | 155 | 97.4 | 115 (74%) | 19 (12%) | 17 (10%) |
| 2021 | 147 | 97.3 | 111 (75%) | 10 (6%) | 22 (14%) |
| 2020 | 147 | 96.6 | 110 (74%) | 15 (10%) | 17 (11%) |
| 2019 | 146 | 97.9 | 113 (77%) | 17 (11%) | 13 (8%) |
| 2018 | 158 | 100.0 | 127 (80%) | 22 (13%) | 8 (5%) |
| 2017 | 155 | 99.4 | 125 (80%) | 15 (9%) | 14 (9%) |