2025 FREIDA™ data
In 2025, FREIDA™ users tallied more than 47,000 views of pathology-anatomic and clinical residency programs. In this list, we pare the 143 programs down to the 10 pathology-anatomic and clinical 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
Pathology is the medical specialty that studies the causes, processes, development, and consequences of disease and disease therapies. Pathology impacts virtually every other specialty of medicine. It incorporates the latest laboratory medicine technology to provide information that serves as the foundation for medical diagnosis, patient treatment and research.
Within the spectrum of pathology, people often refer to two broad categories, anatomic and clinical pathology. Anatomic pathology is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the gross, microscopic, chemical, immunologic and molecular examination of organs, tissues and whole bodies. Clinical pathology is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the laboratory analysis of bodily fluids (such as blood and urine) and tissues using the tools of chemistry, microbiology, hematology and molecular pathology.
The 10-most viewed pathology-anatomic and clinical programs
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai Hospital Program
Mass General Brigham Program
University of Alabama Medical Center Program
Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Program
Danbury Hospital Program
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Program
University of Miami/Jackson Health System Program
Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium Program
Rutgers Health/Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Program
