10 most-viewed ophthalmology residency programs

2025 FREIDA™ data

In 2025, FREIDA™ users tallied more than 20,000 views of ophthalmology residency programs. In this list, we pare the 126 ophthalmology programs down to the 10 ophthalmology residency programs ranked at 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, 2025.

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.

Specialty description

Ophthalmology is the medical specialty concerned with the medical and surgical care of the eye, orbit, optic tract and visual cortex. Training consists of a three-year residency program following a one-year clinical postgraduate year program in internal medicine, pediatrics, general surgery, or transitional year.

The 10-most viewed ophthalmology programs

1. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/New York Eye and Ear Infirmary at Mount Sinai Program

2. Jamaica Hospital Medical Center/New York Medical College Program

3. Mass General Brigham/Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School Program

4. Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital Program

5. Broward Health Program

6. Johns Hopkins University Program

7. University of Miami/Jackson Health System/Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Program

8. HCA Florida Healthcare/USF Morsani College of Medicine GME Bayonet Point Hospital Program

9. UPMC Medical Education Program

10. Tufts Medical Center Program