Nuclear Medicine
Functional imaging and radionuclide therapy, a small field sitting between radiology and oncology and increasingly defined by theranostics.
Among the 31 specialties
Each rail below carries one mark per specialty, placed by its true value. Nuclear Medicine’s marks are joined by the thread — its shape is what makes this specialty unlike the others.
- Training length
- Training length: 3 years. Longer than 4 of the 30 specialties reporting; shorter than 18. Reported range across specialties: 2 years to 7 years.
- Interviews per position
- Interviews per position: 3.3×. More than 14 of the 28 specialties reporting; fewer than 9. Reported range across specialties: 1.0× to 5.0×.
- Residents in training
- Residents in training: 130. More than 1 of the 30 specialties reporting; fewer than 28. Reported range across specialties: 99 to 40,131.
- Programs
- Programs: 33. More than 3 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 27. Reported range across specialties: 5 to 820.
- States and territories
- States and territories: 22. More than 4 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 26. Reported range across specialties: 4 to 52.
- Starting salary
- Starting salary: $60K. Higher than 0 of the 28 specialties reporting; lower than 27. Reported range across specialties: $60K to $73K.
Every accredited program
Grouped by state, alphabetical within each. We don’t rank programs.
33 programs across 22 states
Alabama1
3 positions
Arizona1
3 positions
Arkansas1
3 positions
California5
5 positions
5 positions
University of California (San Francisco)
San Francisco
3 positions
University of California Davis Health
Sacramento
3 positions
3 positions
Florida1
4 positions
Georgia1
6 positions
Illinois1
2 positions
Iowa1
4 positions
Maryland2
Baltimore
7 positions
Baltimore
5 positions
Massachusetts1
8 positions
Michigan1
Ann Arbor
3 positions
Missouri3
3 positions
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia
1 positions
5 positions
New York4
6 positions
6 positions
6 positions
3 positions
Oklahoma1
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Oklahoma City
2 positions
Oregon1
1 positions
Pennsylvania1
1 positions
Puerto Rico1
San Juan
6 positions
South Carolina1
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston
1 positions
Tennessee1
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville
2 positions
Texas2
San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC)
Joint Base San Antonio Fort Sam Houston
4 positions
6 positions
Washington1
Seattle
7 positions
Wisconsin1
3 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
- Prerequisite clinical education before Nuclear MedicineEntrants to ACGME-accredited Nuclear Medicine residency programs
- 12monthsACGME, requirements effective 2026-07-01
- Required Nuclear Medicine residency durationACGME-accredited Nuclear Medicine residency programs
- 36monthsACGME, requirements effective 2026-07-01
- ACGME accredited program countAll programs on the official current ACGME Nuclear Medicine roster
- 33programsACGME, 2026-2027
- Categorical Nuclear Medicine tracksNuclear Medicine categorical tracks
- 0tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- NRMP live directory track countNuclear Medicine tracks linked to the current ACGME roster
- 4tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
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
- Median first-year resident salary across programs. Resident pay, not attending pay.
- Interviews per position
- Median interviews a program conducts for each position it offers.