Emergency Medicine
Undifferentiated patients on the clock — broad, procedural, shift-based, and the specialty where the schedule genuinely ends when the shift does.
- Training
- 3–4 years
- Entry
- Direct from medical school
- Apply through
- ResidencyCAS
- Match through
- NRMP Main Match
- Accredited programs
- 299
Emergency Medicine is accredited at more than one length: both 3-year and 4-year programs are offered, so the length is set by the program you match at, not by the specialty.
A small number of EM programs still accept ERAS applications; confirm per program.
Among the 31 specialties
What sets Emergency Medicine apart most is interviews per position: 4.6×, more than 24 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. Emergency Medicine’s is the coloured dot — point anywhere along a rail to name the others.
- Programs
- Programs: 299. More than 25 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 5. Reported range across specialties: 5 to 820.
- Training length
- Emergency Medicine is accredited at more than one length: both 3-year and 4-year programs are offered, so the length is set by the program you match at, not by the specialty. Training length: 3 years. Longer than 4 of the 31 specialties reporting; shorter than 18. Reported range across specialties: 2 years to 7 years.
- Interviews per position
- Interviews per position: 4.6×. More than 24 of the 28 specialties reporting; fewer than 3. Reported range across specialties: 1.0× to 5.0×.
- Residents in training
- Residents in training: 10,847. More than 25 of the 30 specialties reporting; fewer than 4. 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 12 of the 28 specialties reporting; lower than 15. 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.
299 across 46 states
Alabama2
Arizona6
Arkansas3
California26
Colorado1
Connecticut2
Delaware2
District of Columbia2
Florida26
Georgia5
Illinois13
Indiana2
Iowa2
Kansas2
Kentucky2
Louisiana4
Maine1
Maryland2
Massachusetts6
Michigan26
Minnesota3
Mississippi3
Missouri5
Nebraska1
Nevada3
New Hampshire1
New Jersey12
New Mexico1
New York32
North Carolina7
Ohio18
Oklahoma5
Oregon1
Pennsylvania22
Puerto Rico2
Rhode Island2
South Carolina5
South Dakota1
Tennessee5
Texas20
Utah1
Vermont1
Virginia7
Washington2
West Virginia2
Wisconsin2
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 ACGME roster programs present in the ABEM pass-rate reportCurrent 2026-2027 ACGME Emergency Medicine roster
- 231programsabem.org, ABEM report published 2025
- ACGME accredited program countAll programs on the official ACGME Emergency Medicine roster
- 299programsACGME, 2026-2027
- Categorical Emergency Medicine tracksEmergency Medicine categorical tracks
- 313tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- Emergency Medicine program signals availableApplicants to Emergency Medicine programs in the 2026-2027 ResidencyCAS cycle
- 5signalscordem.org, 2026-2027
- NRMP live directory track countEmergency Medicine categorical tracks
- 313tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- Preliminary Emergency Medicine tracksEmergency Medicine preliminary tracks
- 0tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- Applicants ranking at least one Emergency Medicine programAll applicants who ranked at least one Emergency Medicine program in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 3,616applicantsNRMP, 2026
- Emergency Medicine PGY-1 position fill rateEmergency Medicine PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 95.6%NRMP, 2026
- Emergency Medicine PGY-1 positions filledEmergency Medicine PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 3,058positionsNRMP, 2026
- Emergency Medicine PGY-1 positions offeredEmergency Medicine PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 3,198positionsNRMP, 2026
- Emergency Medicine PGY-1 positions unfilled after the matching algorithmEmergency Medicine PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 140positionsNRMP, 2026
- Emergency Medicine programs participating in the 2026 Main Residency MatchEmergency Medicine programs in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 303programsNRMP, 2026
- Mean contiguous Emergency Medicine ranks for matched U.S. MD seniorsConsenting U.S. MD seniors matched to preferred Emergency Medicine specialty (n=1,027)
- 15.4ranksNRMP, 2024
- Mean contiguous Emergency Medicine ranks for unmatched U.S. MD seniorsConsenting U.S. MD seniors not matched to preferred Emergency Medicine specialty (n=20)
- 4.5ranksNRMP, 2024
- Mean research experiences for matched U.S. MD seniors preferring Emergency MedicineConsenting U.S. MD seniors matched to preferred Emergency Medicine specialty (n=1,027)
- 2.8experiencesNRMP, 2024
- USMLE Step 2 CK mean for U.S. MD seniors matched to preferred Emergency Medicine specialtyConsenting U.S. MD seniors matched to preferred Emergency Medicine specialty (n=1,027)
- 248pointsNRMP, 2024
- USMLE Step 2 CK mean for U.S. MD seniors not matched to preferred Emergency Medicine specialtyConsenting U.S. MD seniors not matched to preferred Emergency Medicine specialty (n=20)
- 234pointsNRMP, 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.
- PediatricsMedicine for growing bodies, weighted toward outpatient continuity and prevention, and the entry point for every pediatric subspecialty.
- Diagnostic RadiologyReading the imaging the rest of the hospital orders, with little direct patient contact and a workload measured in studies rather than beds.
- Internal MedicineThe diagnostic backbone of adult medicine and the largest residency in the country — three years that open onto nearly every medical subspecialty.
- Family MedicineThe widest scope in medicine and the largest number of positions, spanning newborns to hospice with continuity as the core of the work.
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.