Family Medicine
The widest scope in medicine and the largest number of positions, spanning newborns to hospice with continuity as the core of the work.
- Training
- 3 years
- Entry
- Direct from medical school
- Apply through
- ERAS
- Match through
- NRMP Main Match
- Accredited programs
- 820
Among the 31 specialties
What sets Family Medicine apart most is programs: 820, more than every other specialty.
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. Family Medicine’s is the coloured dot — point anywhere along a rail to name the others.
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- Programs
- Programs: 820. More than 30 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 0. Reported range across specialties: 5 to 820.
- Training length
- 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: 4.2×. More than 23 of the 28 specialties reporting; fewer than 4. Reported range across specialties: 1.0× to 5.0×.
- Residents in training
- Residents in training: 18,662. More than 28 of the 30 specialties reporting; fewer than 1. Reported range across specialties: 99 to 40,131.
- States and territories
- States and territories: 52. More than 30 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 0. Reported range across specialties: 4 to 52.
- First-year resident pay
- First-year resident pay: $67K. Higher than 3 of the 28 specialties reporting; lower than 24. 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.
820 across 52 states
Alabama12
Alaska1
Arizona18
Arkansas15
California87
Colorado13
Connecticut6
Delaware4
District of Columbia1
Florida39
Georgia20
Hawaii5
Idaho9
Illinois34
Indiana18
Iowa8
Kansas6
Kentucky10
Louisiana14
Maine4
Maryland7
Massachusetts7
Michigan39
Minnesota14
Mississippi8
Missouri16
Montana3
Nebraska5
Nevada7
New Hampshire4
New Jersey24
New Mexico6
New York42
North Carolina21
North Dakota6
Ohio40
Oklahoma13
Oregon9
Pennsylvania57
Puerto Rico6
Rhode Island2
South Carolina19
South Dakota3
Tennessee13
Texas44
Utah5
Vermont2
Virginia17
Washington27
West Virginia8
Wisconsin19
Wyoming3
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
- required_training_lengthACGME-accredited Family Medicine residency educational programs
- 36monthsACGME, effective 2026-07-01
- abfm_direct_id_program_matchesCurrent 820-program Family Medicine canonical roster and its linked authorized source layer
- 804programstheabfm.org, 2026-2027
- acgme_ads_live_detail_successesCurrent 820-program Family Medicine canonical roster and its linked authorized source layer
- 194programsACGME, 2026-2027
- acgme_cloud_current_roster_matchesCurrent 820-program Family Medicine canonical roster and its linked authorized source layer
- 819programsACGME, 2026-2027
- current_acgme_roster_program_countPrograms in the ACGME Family Medicine academic-year 2026-2027 public roster on the snapshot date
- 820programsACGME, 2026-2027
- freida_structured_program_matchesCurrent 820-program Family Medicine canonical roster and its linked authorized source layer
- 807programsfreida.ama-assn.org, 2026-2027
- nrmp_current_active_track_countCurrent 820-program Family Medicine canonical roster and its linked authorized source layer
- 823tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- 2026_fill_rate_categorical_plus_combinedAAFP definition: Family Medicine categorical plus selected combined programs
- 83.7%aafp.org, 2026 Main Residency Match
- 2026_main_match_fill_rateFamily Medicine positions in the NRMP public news definition
- 83.6%NRMP, 2026 Main Residency Match
- 2026_main_match_positions_offeredFamily Medicine positions in the NRMP public news definition
- 5,491positionsNRMP, 2026 Main Residency Match
- 2026_main_match_positions_unfilledFamily Medicine positions unfilled when the matching algorithm was processed
- 899positionsNRMP, 2026 Main Residency Match
- 2026_positions_filled_categorical_plus_combinedAAFP definition: Family Medicine categorical plus selected combined programs
- 4,613positionsaafp.org, 2026 Main Residency Match
- 2026_positions_offered_categorical_plus_combinedAAFP definition: Family Medicine categorical plus Emergency Medicine-Family Medicine and Psychiatry-Family Medicine combined programs
- 5,512positionsaafp.org, 2026 Main Residency Match
- positions_change_from_2025Year-over-year change in Family Medicine positions offered
- 134positionsNRMP, 2026 Main Residency Match
- 2025_main_match_fill_rate_contextPrior-year Family Medicine fill-rate context
- 85%NRMP, 2025 Main Residency Match
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.
- Internal MedicineThe diagnostic backbone of adult medicine and the largest residency in the country — three years that open onto nearly every medical subspecialty.
- Emergency MedicineUndifferentiated patients on the clock — broad, procedural, shift-based, and the specialty where the schedule genuinely ends when the shift does.
- Diagnostic RadiologyReading the imaging the rest of the hospital orders, with little direct patient contact and a workload measured in studies rather than beds.
- NeurologyLocalizing lesions by examination and then managing chronic disease — stroke, epilepsy, and neurodegeneration — across inpatient and clinic settings.
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.