Interventional Radiology
Image-guided procedures as a primary specialty rather than a fellowship, combining radiology's diagnostic training with a growing operative practice.
- Training
- 5–6 years
- Entry
- Direct from medical school
- Apply through
- ERAS
- Match through
- NRMP Main Match
- Accredited programs
- 107
Interventional Radiology is accredited at more than one length: both 5-year and 6-year programs are offered, so the length is set by the program you match at, not by the specialty.
Among the 31 specialties
What sets Interventional Radiology apart most is first-year resident pay: $67K, higher than 4 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. Interventional Radiology’s is the coloured dot — point anywhere along a rail to name the others.
- Programs
- Programs: 107. More than 12 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 18. Reported range across specialties: 5 to 820.
- Training length
- Interventional Radiology is accredited at more than one length: both 5-year and 6-year programs are offered, so the length is set by the program you match at, not by the specialty. Training length: 5 years. Longer than 22 of the 31 specialties reporting; shorter than 3. Reported range across specialties: 2 years to 7 years.
- Interviews per position
- Interviews per position: 3.2×. More than 11 of the 28 specialties reporting; fewer than 15. Reported range across specialties: 1.0× to 5.0×.
- Residents in training
- Residents in training: 1,294. More than 9 of the 30 specialties reporting; fewer than 20. Reported range across specialties: 99 to 40,131.
- States and territories
- States and territories: 41. More than 13 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 16. Reported range across specialties: 4 to 52.
- First-year resident pay
- First-year resident pay: $67K. Higher than 4 of the 28 specialties reporting; lower than 22. 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.
107 across 41 states
Alabama1
Arizona3
Arkansas1
California10
Colorado1
Connecticut1
Delaware1
District of Columbia2
Florida5
Georgia2
Illinois6
Indiana1
Iowa1
Kansas1
Kentucky1
Louisiana3
Maine1
Maryland2
Massachusetts6
Michigan4
Minnesota2
Mississippi2
Missouri3
Nebraska1
New Hampshire1
New Jersey2
New York10
North Carolina3
Ohio4
Oklahoma1
Oregon1
Pennsylvania9
Rhode Island1
South Carolina1
Tennessee1
Texas4
Utah1
Vermont1
Virginia2
Washington1
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
- Interventional Radiology-Integrated program signals availableApplicants to participating Interventional Radiology-Integrated residency programs in the 2027 MyERAS application season
- 8signalsAAMC, 2027 MyERAS application season
- ACGME accredited program countAll programs on the official current ACGME Interventional Radiology-Integrated roster
- 107programsACGME, 2026-2027
- Categorical Interventional Radiology (Integrated) tracksInterventional Radiology (Integrated) categorical tracks
- 32tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- NRMP live directory track countInterventional Radiology (Integrated) tracks linked to the current ACGME roster
- 119tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- Applicants ranking at least one Interventional Radiology (Integrated) PGY-1 programApplicants who ranked at least one Interventional Radiology (Integrated) PGY-1 program in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 303applicantsNRMP, 2026 Main Residency Match
- Interventional Radiology (Integrated) PGY-1 programs participating in the 2026 Main Residency MatchInterventional Radiology (Integrated) PGY-1 programs in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 47programsNRMP, 2026 Main Residency Match
- Interventional Radiology (Integrated) PGY-2 programs participating in the 2026 Main Residency MatchInterventional Radiology (Integrated) advanced PGY-2 programs in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 61programsNRMP, 2026 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.
- OtolaryngologyHead and neck surgery spanning oncology, airway, otology, and endocrine work — broad operative range in a small, tightly-knit field.
- OphthalmologyHigh-volume microsurgery and clinic in roughly equal measure, matched a year early through SF Match rather than the NRMP.
- Internal Medicine-PediatricsFour years to full board eligibility in both adult and pediatric medicine, built for care that does not stop at the transition to adulthood.
- Neurological SurgerySeven years, the longest residency in medicine, covering cranial, spinal, and vascular operative work at the highest intensity in 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.