In 2022, FREIDA™ users tallied more than 245,000 views of anesthesiology residency programs. In this list, we pare the list of 163 anesthesiology residencies down to the 10 programs that rose to the top for user interest.

Rankings are based on identified medical student activity on FREIDA™, the AMA Residency & Fellowship Database®, from Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2022. FREIDA allows medical students to search for a residency or fellowship from more than 13,000 programs—all accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Anesthesiology is the practice of medicine dedicated to the relief of pain and periprocedural care of patients before, during and after invasive procedures. It is, quite literally, the physician anesthesiologist’s job to keep patients alive during invasive procedures. By controlling a patient’s level of awareness (hypnosis), response to pain (analgesia), memory (amnesia) and muscle tone (relaxation), the physician anesthesiologist makes a surgical event a “non-event” for the patient while providing an optimal surgical environment for the team.

1. University of Alabama Medical Center Program

2. Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Phoenix) Program

3. University of Miami/Jackson Health System Program

4. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine Program

5. University of Florida Program

6. Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program

7. University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson Program

8. UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center Program

9. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Program

10. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Program