Aerospace Medicine
Occupational medicine for pilots, aircrew, and astronauts — a small, largely military and federal field built around fitness-to-fly rather than treatment.
Among the 31 specialties
Each rail below carries one mark per specialty, placed by its true value. Aerospace Medicine’s marks are joined by the thread — its shape is what makes this specialty unlike the others.
- Training length
- Training length: 2 years. Longer than 0 of the 30 specialties reporting; shorter than 26. Reported range across specialties: 2 years to 7 years.
- Interviews per position
- Interviews per position: not reported for Aerospace Medicine.
- Residents in training
- Residents in training: 99. More than 0 of the 30 specialties reporting; fewer than 29. Reported range across specialties: 99 to 40,131.
- Programs
- Programs: 5. More than 0 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 30. Reported range across specialties: 5 to 820.
- States and territories
- States and territories: 4. More than 0 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 30. Reported range across specialties: 4 to 52.
- Starting salary
- Starting salary: not reported for Aerospace Medicine.
Every accredited program
Grouped by state, alphabetical within each. We don’t rank programs.
Alabama1
Department of Aviation Medicine
Fort Rucker
20 positions
Florida1
34 positions
Ohio1
USAF School of Aerospace Medicine
Wright-Patterson AFB
31 positions
Texas2
Texas A&M University Naresh K. Vashisht College of Medicine
College Station
2 positions
12 positions
What the sources report
Published by the bodies that collect them. Each figure carries the year it describes, which is not always the year it was published.
Most recent reported
- current_accredited_categorical_program_countCurrent ACGME Aerospace Medicine categorical roster
- 5programsACGME, 2026-2027
- prior_clinical_education_for_applicable_24_month_formatEntrants to a 24-month format that does not integrate fundamental clinical skills
- 12monthsACGME, 2026
- required_clinical_aerospace_medicine_educationACGME Aerospace Medicine residency formats
- 24monthsACGME, 2026
How each measure is made
- Training length
- Most common accredited length across programs in this specialty.
- Residents in training
- Total approved positions across all training years, summed across programs.
- Programs
- Accredited programs currently published in our directory.
- States and territories
- Distinct states with at least one published program.
- Starting salary
- Not reported for Aerospace Medicine.
- Interviews per position
- Not reported for Aerospace Medicine.