Diagnostic Radiology
Reading the imaging the rest of the hospital orders, with little direct patient contact and a workload measured in studies rather than beds.
- Training
- 4 years
- Entry
- Direct from medical school
- Apply through
- ERAS
- Match through
- NRMP Main Match
- Accredited programs
- 201
Among the 31 specialties
What sets Diagnostic Radiology apart most is first-year resident pay: $67K, higher than 6 of 28.
Every rail is one dot per specialty, ordered lowest to highest, so all six read as one profile. Dots stack where specialties share a value. Diagnostic Radiology’s is the coloured dot — point anywhere along a rail to name the others.
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- Programs
- Programs: 201. More than 21 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 9. Reported range across specialties: 5 to 820.
- Training length
- Training length: 4 years. Longer than 13 of the 31 specialties reporting; shorter than 9. Reported range across specialties: 2 years to 7 years.
- Interviews per position
- Interviews per position: 3.4×. More than 20 of the 28 specialties reporting; fewer than 7. Reported range across specialties: 1.0× to 5.0×.
- Residents in training
- Residents in training: 5,698. More than 21 of the 30 specialties reporting; fewer than 8. Reported range across specialties: 99 to 40,131.
- States and territories
- States and territories: 46. More than 22 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 6. Reported range across specialties: 4 to 52.
- First-year resident pay
- First-year resident pay: $67K. Higher than 6 of the 28 specialties reporting; lower than 21. Reported range across specialties: $60K to $73K.
Programs ranges from 5 to 820 across 31 specialties. The middle half sit between 82 and 210.
Training length ranges from 2 years to 7 years across 31 specialties. The middle half sit between 3 years and 5 years.
Interviews per position ranges from 1.0× to 5.0× across 28 specialties. The middle half sit between 2.7× and 3.5×.
Residents in training ranges from 99 to 40,131 across 30 specialties. The middle half sit between 718 and 6,616.
States and territories ranges from 4 to 52 across 31 specialties. The middle half sit between 35 and 46.
First-year resident pay ranges from $60K to $73K across 28 specialties. The middle half sit between $67K and $69K.
Every accredited program
Grouped by state, alphabetical within each. We don’t rank programs. Open any row for its deadlines, salary, visas, and reported outcomes.
201 across 46 states
Alabama3
Arizona3
Arkansas1
California20
Colorado1
Connecticut6
Delaware1
District of Columbia2
Florida11
Georgia3
Hawaii1
Illinois10
Indiana2
Iowa1
Kansas2
Kentucky2
Louisiana4
Maine1
Maryland3
Massachusetts11
Michigan10
Minnesota2
Mississippi1
Missouri4
Nebraska2
Nevada2
New Hampshire1
New Jersey7
New Mexico1
New York24
North Carolina3
Ohio8
Oklahoma3
Oregon1
Pennsylvania12
Puerto Rico1
Rhode Island1
South Carolina1
Tennessee4
Texas12
Utah1
Vermont1
Virginia4
Washington3
West Virginia1
Wisconsin3
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
- Diagnostic Radiology gold program signals availableApplicants to participating Diagnostic Radiology residency programs in the 2027 MyERAS season
- 6signalsAAMC, 2027 ERAS season
- Diagnostic Radiology silver program signals availableApplicants to participating Diagnostic Radiology residency programs in the 2027 MyERAS season
- 9signalsAAMC, 2027 ERAS season
- ACGME accredited program countAll programs on the official ACGME Diagnostic Radiology roster
- 201programsACGME, 2026-2027
- Advanced Diagnostic Radiology tracksDiagnostic Radiology advanced tracks
- 176tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- Categorical Diagnostic Radiology tracksDiagnostic Radiology categorical tracks
- 36tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- NRMP live directory track countRadiology-Diagnostic tracks linked to the current ACGME roster
- 256tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- Reserved physician Diagnostic Radiology tracksDiagnostic Radiology reserved physician tracks
- 44tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- Applicants ranking at least one Radiology-Diagnostic PGY-1 programApplicants who ranked at least one Radiology-Diagnostic PGY-1 program in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 1,110applicantsNRMP, 2026
- Applicants ranking at least one Radiology-Diagnostic PGY-2 programApplicants who ranked at least one Radiology-Diagnostic PGY-2 program in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 1,741applicantsNRMP, 2026
- Applicants ranking at least one Radiology-Diagnostic physician-reserved programApplicants who ranked at least one Radiology-Diagnostic Physician (R) program in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 112applicantsNRMP, 2026
- Radiology-Diagnostic PGY-1 position fill rateRadiology-Diagnostic PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 94.9%NRMP, 2026
- Radiology-Diagnostic PGY-1 positions filledRadiology-Diagnostic PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 148positionsNRMP, 2026
- Radiology-Diagnostic PGY-1 positions offeredRadiology-Diagnostic PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 156positionsNRMP, 2026
- Radiology-Diagnostic PGY-1 positions unfilled after the matching algorithmRadiology-Diagnostic PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 8positionsNRMP, 2026
- Radiology-Diagnostic PGY-1 programs participating in the 2026 MatchRadiology-Diagnostic PGY-1 programs in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 34programsNRMP, 2026
- Radiology-Diagnostic PGY-2 programs participating in the 2026 MatchRadiology-Diagnostic advanced PGY-2 programs in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 173programsNRMP, 2026
- Radiology-Diagnostic physician-reserved programs participating in the 2026 MatchRadiology-Diagnostic Physician (R) programs in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 21programsNRMP, 2026
- U.S. MD senior preferred-specialty match rate for Diagnostic RadiologyU.S. MD seniors who preferred Diagnostic Radiology in the 2024 Main Residency Match
- 86.4%NRMP, 2024
- USMLE Step 2 CK mean for U.S. MD seniors matched to preferred Diagnostic Radiology specialtyConsenting U.S. MD seniors matched to preferred Diagnostic Radiology specialty (n=625)
- 256pointsNRMP, 2024
- USMLE Step 2 CK mean for U.S. MD seniors not matched to preferred Diagnostic Radiology specialtyConsenting U.S. MD seniors not matched to preferred Diagnostic Radiology specialty (n=86)
- 241pointsNRMP, 2024
Specialties that measure like this one
Nearest on the six measures above — length, competitiveness, scale, geography, pay. Not a claim that the work is similar, and not a recommendation.
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- Emergency MedicineUndifferentiated patients on the clock — broad, procedural, shift-based, and the specialty where the schedule genuinely ends when the shift does.
- Obstetrics & GynecologySurgical and primary care for one population, combining continuity clinic, operative gynecology, and the unpredictability of labor and delivery.
- PsychiatryDiagnosis and treatment of mental illness through pharmacology and psychotherapy, weighted toward outpatient practice after training.
How each measure is made
- Training length
- How many years the accredited residency itself runs. Specialties you enter at PGY-2 need a separately matched preliminary or transitional year before this clock starts, and any fellowship comes after it.Accredited length across programs in this specialty. A few specialties run both lengths — Emergency Medicine has three-year and four-year programs — and are shown as a range.
- Residents in training
- How many residents the specialty holds at once, counting every training year at every program. It is a measure of the field’s size rather than of its annual intake — divide by the training length for a rough sense of how many start each year.Total approved positions across all training years, summed across programs.
- Programs
- How many separately accredited residency programs the specialty has. Each one is its own application, its own interview, and its own line on your rank list.Accredited programs currently published in our directory.
- States and territories
- How many states and territories have at least one program. This is the geography question: a specialty with 400 programs across 20 states is far more concentrated than one with 100 spread across 45.Distinct states with at least one published program.
- First-year resident pay
- What you are paid during your first year of training, before any of it becomes an attending salary. The spread across specialties is narrow — this is not the number that separates them.Median PGY-1 stipend across programs — what you are paid during residency, not what the specialty earns afterwards.
- Interviews per position
- How many applicants a program interviews for each position it offers — at 4×, a program with ten spots interviews about forty people. It is a read on how far the field narrows at the interview stage, not on how many applied.Median interviews a program conducts for each position it offers.