Pediatrics
Medicine for growing bodies, weighted toward outpatient continuity and prevention, and the entry point for every pediatric subspecialty.
- Training
- 3 years
- Entry
- Direct from medical school
- Apply through
- ERAS
- Match through
- NRMP Main Match
- Accredited programs
- 219
Among the 31 specialties
What sets Pediatrics apart most is interviews per position: 4.7×, more than 25 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. Pediatrics’s is the coloured dot — point anywhere along a rail to name the others.
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- Programs
- Programs: 219. More than 24 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 6. 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: 4.7×. More than 25 of the 28 specialties reporting; fewer than 2. Reported range across specialties: 1.0× to 5.0×.
- Residents in training
- Residents in training: 10,830. More than 24 of the 30 specialties reporting; fewer than 5. Reported range across specialties: 99 to 40,131.
- States and territories
- States and territories: 49. More than 27 of the 31 specialties reporting; fewer than 3. Reported range across specialties: 4 to 52.
- First-year resident pay
- First-year resident pay: $69K. Higher than 19 of the 28 specialties reporting; lower than 8. 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.
219 across 49 states
Alabama2
Arizona3
Arkansas1
California18
Colorado1
Connecticut2
Delaware1
District of Columbia2
Florida15
Georgia5
Hawaii2
Idaho1
Illinois10
Indiana2
Iowa2
Kansas1
Kentucky2
Louisiana5
Maine1
Maryland4
Massachusetts4
Michigan10
Minnesota2
Mississippi1
Missouri4
Nebraska1
Nevada2
New Hampshire1
New Jersey9
New Mexico1
New York33
North Carolina5
North Dakota1
Ohio9
Oklahoma3
Oregon1
Pennsylvania7
Puerto Rico4
Rhode Island1
South Carolina3
South Dakota1
Tennessee5
Texas14
Utah1
Vermont1
Virginia6
Washington3
West Virginia3
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
- ACGME accredited program countAll programs on the official ACGME Pediatrics roster
- 219programsACGME, 2026-2027
- Categorical Pediatrics tracksPediatrics categorical tracks
- 264tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- NRMP live directory track countPediatrics categorical, primary-care, and preliminary tracks
- 296tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- Pediatrics ERAS program signals availableApplicants to participating Pediatrics residency programs in the 2026-2027 application cycle
- 5signalsAAMC, 2026-2027
- Preliminary Pediatrics tracksPediatrics preliminary tracks
- 20tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- Primary-care Pediatrics tracksPediatrics primary-care tracks
- 12tracksNRMP, 2026-2027
- Applicants ranking at least one categorical Pediatrics programAll applicants who ranked at least one Pediatrics categorical program in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 4,162applicantsNRMP, 2026
- Categorical Pediatrics position fill ratePediatrics categorical PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 94.4%NRMP, 2026
- Categorical Pediatrics positions filledPediatrics categorical PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 2,951positionsNRMP, 2026
- Categorical Pediatrics positions offeredPediatrics categorical PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 3,126positionsNRMP, 2026
- Categorical Pediatrics positions unfilled after the matching algorithmPediatrics categorical PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 175positionsNRMP, 2026
- Categorical Pediatrics programs participating in the 2026 MatchPediatrics categorical programs in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 250programsNRMP, 2026
- Pediatrics preliminary programs participating in the 2026 MatchPediatrics-Preliminary programs in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 19programsNRMP, 2026
- Pediatrics primary-care position fill ratePediatrics-Primary PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 93.2%NRMP, 2026
- Pediatrics primary-care positions filledPediatrics-Primary PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 55positionsNRMP, 2026
- Pediatrics primary-care positions offeredPediatrics-Primary PGY-1 positions in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 59positionsNRMP, 2026
- Pediatrics primary-care programs participating in the 2026 MatchPediatrics-Primary programs in the 2026 Main Residency Match
- 12programsNRMP, 2026
- USMLE Step 2 CK mean for U.S. MD seniors matched to preferred Pediatrics specialtyConsenting U.S. MD seniors matched to preferred Pediatrics specialty (n=1,216)
- 247pointsNRMP, 2024
- USMLE Step 2 CK mean for U.S. MD seniors not matched to preferred Pediatrics specialtyConsenting U.S. MD seniors not matched to preferred Pediatrics specialty (n=2)
- 233pointsNRMP, 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.
- 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.
- Family MedicineThe widest scope in medicine and the largest number of positions, spanning newborns to hospice with continuity as the core of the work.
- Internal MedicineThe diagnostic backbone of adult medicine and the largest residency in the country — three years that open onto nearly every medical subspecialty.
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.