Emergency medicine programs with the most residency positions

In 2022, FREIDA™ users tallied more than 6 million views of medical residency programs. With this list of emergency medicine residencies, we draw from the 3,094 first-year positions for emergency medicine and reveal which residency programs offer the most positions.

Rankings are based on FREIDA™ data updated from Jan. 1-Dec. 31, 2022. FREIDA™, the AMA Residency & Fellowship Database®, 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.

Although the first residency training programs in emergency medicine opened their doors over 45 years ago, it has already become one of the most popular specialties in the United States. The reasons are clear: emergency medicine offers an exciting and challenging medical career with good work-life balance, schedule flexibility and patient variety.

While emergency medicine certainly isn’t for everyone, recent data suggests the majority of practicing emergency physicians report high levels of happiness outside of work hours.

1. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Program – 26 positions

2. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program – 25 positions

3. Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Program – 23 positions

4. Emory University School of Medicine Program – 22 positions

5. Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Jacobi/Montefiore) Program – 21 positions

6. SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Program – 21 positions

7. Indiana University School of Medicine Program – 21 positions

8. University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Program – 21 positions

9. University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center Program – 20 positions

10. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Morningside/West) Program – 20 positions

11. University of California Davis Health Program – 20 positions

12. Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program – 19 positions

13. Wright State University Program – 18 positions

14. Orlando Health Program – 18 positions 

15. University of Connecticut Program – 18 positions