Geriatric medicine specialties were the top two least-filled specialties in the 2023 National Resident Matching Program results for medicine and pediatric specialties.
Here are the 20 least-filled specialties:
|
Rank |
Specialty |
Percentage of positions filled |
Number of positions filled |
|
1 |
Geriatric medicine (family medicine) |
26.8% |
19 |
|
2 |
Geriatric medicine (internal medicine) |
44.5% |
155 |
|
3 |
Pediatric infectious diseases |
48.1% |
37 |
|
4 |
Addiction psychiatry |
50.8% |
63 |
|
5 |
Child abuse |
52.4% |
11 |
|
6 |
Pediatric nephrology |
53.4% |
39 |
|
7 |
Adult congenital heart disease |
53.8% |
14 |
|
8 |
Developmental-behavioral |
55.1% |
27 |
|
9 |
Advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology |
56.6% |
73 |
|
10 |
Pediatric pulmonology |
59.3% |
51 |
|
11 |
Addiction medicine |
59.5% |
138 |
|
T-12 |
Pediatric endocrinology |
60% |
60 |
|
T-12 |
Academic general pediatrics |
60% |
3 |
|
14 |
Pediatric rheumatology |
61.5% |
32 |
|
15 |
Nephrology-clinical |
63.1% |
284 |
|
16 |
Infectious disease |
67.3% |
303 |
|
17 |
Pediatric hematology/oncology |
71.7% |
132 |
|
18 |
Pediatric gastroenterology |
75.2% |
94 |
|
19 |
Adolescent medicine |
79.4% |
27 |
|
20 |
Pediatric transplant hepatology |
81.3% |
13 |