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Occupational & Environmental Medicine

Population health at work — exposure, injury, and fitness for duty — one of the few specialties routinely practiced outside a clinical setting.

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Among the 31 specialties

Each rail below carries one mark per specialty, placed by its true value. Occupational & Environmental Medicine’s marks are joined by the thread — its shape is what makes this specialty unlike the others.

Training length
Training length: 2 years. Longer than 0 of the 30 specialties reporting; shorter than 26. Reported range across specialties: 2 years to 7 years.
Interviews per position
Interviews per position: not reported for Occupational & Environmental Medicine.
Residents in training
Residents in training: not reported for Occupational & Environmental Medicine.
Programs
Programs: 20. More than 1 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 29. Reported range across specialties: 5 to 820.
States and territories
States and territories: 16. More than 1 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 29. Reported range across specialties: 4 to 52.
Starting salary
Starting salary: not reported for Occupational & Environmental Medicine.

Every accredited program

Grouped by state, alphabetical within each. We don’t rank programs.

20 programs across 16 states

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

active_acgme_program_countActive U.S. OEM residency programs
20programsACGME, 2026-2027
direct_patient_care_occupational_setting_per_yearAll ACGME-accredited OEM residency programs
4months per educational yearACGME, 2026-2027
required_oem_education_monthsAll ACGME-accredited OEM residency programs
24monthsACGME, 2026-2027

How each measure is made

Training length
Most common accredited length across programs in this specialty.
Residents in training
Not reported for Occupational & Environmental Medicine.
Programs
Accredited programs currently published in our directory.
States and territories
Distinct states with at least one published program.
Starting salary
Not reported for Occupational & Environmental Medicine.
Interviews per position
Not reported for Occupational & Environmental Medicine.