Are you looking to get into the orthopaedic surgery residency program of your dreams? We’ve got you covered! Here, we’ll give you the inside scoop on which orthopaedic surgery programs have the highest and lowest publications, MD-PhDs, AOA, and Gold Humanism members among matched applicants. So, if you’re curious about orthopaedic surgery or have a specific program in mind, you can learn all the details you need to maximize your chances of becoming an orthopaedic surgeon.
Which Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Programs Require the Most Research?
As discussed previously, matched orthopaedic surgery applicants have some of the highest numbers of abstracts, presentations, and publications.
But how many publications are expected of each orthopaedic surgery residency? Here, we’ll discuss which programs have the most – and fewest – publications among their residents. That way, you can make an informed decision and feel hopeful about getting into the program that’s right for you.
Let’s look at which orthopaedic surgery residency programs have the most – and least – publications among their members. (NOTE: the data here report the Average number of peer-reviewed publications among matched applicants. This is more narrow – and restrictive – than the “abstracts, presentations, and publications,” measure found on ERAS and reported by the Charting Outcomes in the Match reports.)
| Residency program name | City | State | Average number of peer-reviewed publications among matched applicants | Average number of research experiences among matched applicants | # current residents who were graduates of joint MD-PhD program | % current residents who were graduates of MD-PhD programs | % matched applicants members of Alpha Omega Alpha (at the time of application) | % matched applicants members of Gold Humanism Honor Society (at the time of application) | Program curriculum includes a dedicated research rotation | % completed residents with non-academic U.S. practice career plans | % completed residents with plans to continue training in another program | % completed residents with plans to obtain a full-time or part-time academic position | % completed residents with other career plans | Total # Residents on Duty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago Program | Chicago | IL | 9 | 11 | 0% | 32 | 6 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 35 | |
| Albert Einstein Healthcare Network Program | Philadelphia | PA | 8 | 10 | 0% | 25 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Johns Hopkins University Program | Baltimore | MD | 7 | 15 | 1 | 3% | 33 | 20 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Program | New Hyde Park | NY | 7 | 15 | 0% | 35 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of North Carolina Hospitals Program | Chapel Hill | NC | 7 | 7 | 1 | 4% | 40 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Program | Cleveland | OH | 7 | 9 | 0% | 50 | 13 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Geisinger Health System Program | Danville | PA | 7 | 6 | 0% | 15 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Methodist Hospital (Houston) Program | Houston | TX | 7 | 7 | 0% | 40 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 83 | 0 | 17 | 15 | |
| University of California (San Francisco) Program | San Francisco | CA | 6 | 9 | 0% | 35 | 9 | REQ | 0 | 93 | 0 | 7 | 35 | |
| St Mary's Hospital and Medical Center Program | San Francisco | CA | 6 | 7 | 0% | 33 | 0 | REQ | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Miami/Jackson Health System Program | Miami | FL | 6 | 13 | 0% | 34 | 6 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 35 | |
| Emory University School of Medicine Program | Atlanta | GA | 6 | 11 | 0% | 40 | 17 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| WellStar Atlanta Medical Center Program | Atlanta | GA | 6 | 3 | 0% | 10 | 20 | REQ | 14 | 71 | 0 | 14 | 20 | |
| Loyola University Medical Center Program | Maywood | IL | 6 | 10 | 0% | 20 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Chicago Program | Chicago | IL | 6 | 6 | 1 | 4% | 44 | 12 | REQ | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 25 |
| University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Program | Iowa City | IA | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3% | 59 | 14 | REQ | 0 | 91 | 0 | 9 | 30 |
| University of Kentucky College of Medicine Program | Lexington | KY | 6 | 6 | 0% | 40 | 12 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| MedStar Health/Union Memorial Hospital Program | Baltimore | MD | 6 | 8 | 0% | 50 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Beaumont Health (Royal Oak and Taylor) Program | Royal Oak | MI | 6 | 10 | 0% | 28 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 41 | |
| University of Missouri-Columbia Program | Columbia | MO | 6 | 10 | 1 | 4% | 32 | 8 | REQ | 10 | 80 | 10 | 0 | 25 |
| University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine Program | Omaha | NE | 6 | 6 | 0% | 40 | 0 | NA | 0 | 90 | 10 | 0 | 25 | |
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Program | Lebanon | NH | 6 | 7 | 0% | 40 | 15 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Cooper Medical School of Rowan University/Cooper University Hospital Program | Camden | NJ | 6 | 13 | 0% | 40 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| University of New Mexico School of Medicine Program | Albuquerque | NM | 6 | 6 | 0% | 32 | 20 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
| Hospital for Special Surgery/Cornell Medical Center Program | New York | NY | 6 | 18 | 4 | 9% | 36 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 46 |
| Carolinas Medical Center Program | Charlotte | NC | 6 | 8 | 1 | 4% | 48 | 24 | OPT | 0 | 60 | 40 | 0 | 25 |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation Program | Cleveland | OH | 6 | 20 | 0% | 23 | 10 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| UPMC Medical Education Program | Pittsburgh | PA | 6 | 9 | 3 | 7% | 18 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 41 |
| Brown University Program | Providence | RI | 6 | 8 | 0% | 66 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Program | Dallas | TX | 6 | 6 | 0% | 20 | 13 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Baylor College of Medicine Program | Houston | TX | 6 | 7 | 0% | 37 | 17 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine Program | San Antonio | TX | 6 | 5 | 0% | 56 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |
| University of Washington Program | Seattle | WA | 6 | 9 | 0% | 35 | 13 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
| University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson Program | Tucson | AZ | 5 | 6 | 0% | 35 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix Program | Phoenix | AZ | 5 | 4 | 0% | 20 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 5 | 7 | 0% | 24 | 10 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 5 | 10 | 0% | 17 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 5 | 10 | 0% | 58 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 39 | |
| Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Program | Torrance | CA | 5 | 6 | 0% | 56 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |
| University of Colorado Program | Aurora | CO | 5 | 9 | 0% | 35 | 15 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 34 | |
| University of Connecticut Program | Farmington | CT | 5 | 11 | 0% | 40 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Howard University Program | Washington | DC | 5 | 10 | 0% | 15 | 20 | REQ | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 21 | |
| University of South Florida Morsani Program | Tampa | FL | 5 | 11 | 0% | 65 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville Program | Jacksonville | FL | 5 | 4 | 0% | 10 | 5 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Orlando Health Program | Orlando | FL | 5 | 5 | 0% | 30 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 23 | |
| McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Program | Chicago | IL | 5 | 8 | 1 | 3% | 52 | 29 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| Indiana University School of Medicine Program | Indianapolis | IN | 5 | 5 | 0% | 63 | 3 | REQ | 13 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 29 | |
| University of Louisville School of Medicine Program | Louisville | KY | 5 | 3 | 0% | 36 | 16 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
| Louisiana State University Program | New Orleans | LA | 5 | 3 | 0% | 45 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation Program | New Orleans | LA | 5 | 7 | 0% | 56 | 6 | REQ | 40 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Maryland Program | Baltimore | MD | 5 | 5 | 0% | 40 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |
| Tufts Medical Center Program | Boston | MA | 5 | 9 | 0% | 50 | 15 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Henry Ford Hospital Program | Detroit | MI | 5 | 7 | 0% | 43 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University Program | Detroit | MI | 5 | 9 | 0% | 10 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Minnesota Program | Minneapolis | MN | 5 | 6 | 0% | 28 | 10 | NA | 7 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester) Program | Rochester | MN | 5 | 9 | 0% | 58 | 16 | OPT | 0 | 96 | 0 | 4 | 63 | |
| Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium Program | St. Louis | MO | 5 | 11 | 1 | 3% | 51 | 26 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Program | New Brunswick | NJ | 5 | 5 | 0% | 14 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program | New York | NY | 5 | 10 | 0% | 37 | 6 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 35 | |
| NYU Long Island School of Medicine Program | Mineola | NY | 5 | 6 | 0% | 9 | 0 | REQ | 12 | |||||
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Lenox Hill Hospital Program | New York | NY | 5 | 16 | 0% | 30 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
| NYU Grossman School of Medicine/NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital Program | New York | NY | 5 | 13 | 1 | 1% | 44 | 9 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 70 |
| University of Rochester Program | Rochester | NY | 5 | 8 | 3 | 8% | 28 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| SUNY Upstate Medical University Program | Syracuse | NY | 5 | 5 | 0% | 32 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Albany Medical Center Program | Albany | NY | 5 | 8 | 1 | 4% | 16 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Westchester Medical Center Program | Valhalla | NY | 5 | 11 | 0% | 0 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Maimonides Medical Center Program | Brooklyn | NY | 5 | 11 | 0% | 14 | 7 | OPT | 57 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Stony Brook Medicine/University Hospital Program | Stony Brook | NY | 5 | 7 | 0% | 28 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Program | Bronx | NY | 5 | 8 | 0% | 37 | 10 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) Program | New York | NY | 5 | 11 | 0% | 45 | 6 | REQ | 30 | |||||
| Wake Forest University School of Medicine Program | Winston-Salem | NC | 5 | 26 | 1 | 4% | 8 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Duke University Hospital Program | Durham | NC | 5 | 16 | 0% | 23 | 15 | OPT | 0 | 88 | 0 | 12 | 40 | |
| University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Medicine Program | Cincinnati | OH | 5 | 7 | 0% | 44 | 28 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Akron General Medical Center/NEOMED Program | Akron | OH | 5 | 3 | 0% | 27 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Wright State University Program | Dayton | OH | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5% | 21 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University/TJUH Program | Philadelphia | PA | 5 | 16 | 0% | 40 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 34 | |
| University of Pennsylvania Health System Program | Philadelphia | PA | 5 | 9 | 0% | 44 | 15 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 43 | |
| Temple University Hospital Program | Philadelphia | PA | 5 | 8 | 0% | 20 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center Program | Hershey | PA | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4% | 36 | 16 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Allegheny Health Network Medical Education Consortium (AGH) Program | Pittsburgh | PA | 5 | 7 | 0% | 20 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |
| St Luke's University Hospital Program | Bethlehem | PA | 5 | 8 | 0% | 17 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Medical University of South Carolina Program | Charleston | SC | 5 | 4 | 0% | 24 | 12 | REQ | 0 | 89 | 0 | 11 | 19 | |
| Prisma Health/University of South Carolina SOM Columbia (Columbia) Program | Columbia | SC | 5 | 5 | 0% | 39 | 17 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center Program | Nashville | TN | 5 | 4 | 0% | 52 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Tennessee College of Medicine at Chattanooga Program | Chattanooga | TN | 5 | 4 | 0% | 33 | 7 | REQ | 33 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 15 | |
| University of Tennessee/Campbell Clinic Program | Memphis | TN | 5 | 5 | 0% | 50 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
| University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals Program | Galveston | TX | 5 | 3 | 0% | 24 | 4 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| John Peter Smith Hospital (Tarrant County Hospital District) Program | Fort Worth | TX | 5 | 3 | 0% | 50 | 15 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Utah Health Program | Salt Lake City | UT | 5 | 7 | 1 | 3% | 43 | 23 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| West Virginia University Program | Morgantown | WV | 5 | 7 | 0% | 25 | 15 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Alabama Medical Center Program | Birmingham | AL | 4 | 8 | 0% | 43 | 17 | REQ | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 30 | |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine Program | Little Rock | AR | 4 | 3 | 0% | 32 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of California (San Francisco)/Fresno Program | Fresno | CA | 4 | 4 | 0% | 15 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Program | Loma Linda | CA | 4 | 6 | 0% | 40 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of California (Irvine) Program | Orange | CA | 4 | 7 | 0% | 45 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University Program | Redwood City | CA | 4 | 9 | 0% | 29 | 6 | NA | 0 | 93 | 7 | 0 | 35 | |
| University of California (San Diego) Medical Center Program | San Diego | CA | 4 | 9 | 0% | 26 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of California Davis Health Program | Sacramento | CA | 4 | 7 | 0% | 44 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 23 | |
| Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program | New Haven | CT | 4 | 9 | 0% | 20 | 12 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| MedStar Health/Georgetown University Hospital Program | Washington | DC | 4 | 7 | 0% | 30 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| George Washington University Program | Washington | DC | 4 | 9 | 0% | 15 | 15 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Florida Program | Gainesville | FL | 4 | 4 | 0% | 40 | 25 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Medical College of Georgia Program | Augusta | GA | 4 | 3 | 0% | 35 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 88 | 0 | 13 | 20 | |
| Rush University Medical Center Program | Chicago | IL | 4 | 12 | 0% | 48 | 12 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Kansas School of Medicine Program | Kansas City | KS | 4 | 6 | 0% | 29 | 19 | REQ | 13 | 75 | 13 | 0 | 19 | |
| University of Kansas (Wichita) Program | Wichita | KS | 4 | 3 | 0% | 30 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Tulane University Program | New Orleans | LA | 4 | 9 | 0% | 19 | 13 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Program | Boston | MA | 4 | 13 | 1 | 2% | 28 | 17 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 60 |
| UMass Chan Medical School Program | Worcester | MA | 4 | 8 | 0% | 32 | 16 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Boston University Medical Center Program | Boston | MA | 4 | 14 | 0% | 9 | 9 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Ascension Providence/MSUCHM Program | Southfield | MI | 4 | 7 | 0% | 8 | 0 | REQ | 11 | |||||
| University of Michigan Health System Program | Ann Arbor | MI | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3% | 54 | 13 | REQ | 6 | 94 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine Program | Kalamazoo | MI | 4 | 4 | 0% | 73 | 0 | REQ | 33 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Spectrum Health/Michigan State University Program | Grand Rapids | MI | 4 | 3 | 0% | 52 | 20 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Program | Kansas City | MO | 4 | 3 | 0% | 30 | 35 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| St Louis University School of Medicine Program | St. Louis | MO | 4 | 7 | 0% | 17 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
| Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Program | Las Vegas | NV | 4 | 5 | 0% | 15 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| St Joseph's University Medical Center Program | Paterson | NJ | 4 | 14 | 0% | 0 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 75 | 0 | 25 | 15 | |
| Rutgers Health/New Jersey Medical School Program | Newark | NJ | 4 | 7 | 0% | 23 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Huntington Hospital Program | Huntington | NY | 4 | 10 | 0% | 4 | 8 | NA | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 28 | |
| University at Buffalo Program | Buffalo | NY | 4 | 4 | 0% | 48 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Program | Brooklyn | NY | 4 | 17 | 0% | 33 | 10 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Univ of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences Program | Fargo | ND | 4 | 8 | 0% | 7 | 7 | REQ | 12 | |||||
| Summa Health System/NEOMED Program | Akron | OH | 4 | 3 | 0% | 20 | 5 | REQ | 13 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |
| Ohio State University Hospital Program | Columbus | OH | 4 | 11 | 0% | 30 | 17 | OPT | 10 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |
| University of Toledo Program | Toledo | OH | 4 | 3 | 0% | 95 | 10 | OPT | 0 | 78 | 22 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Program | Oklahoma City | OK | 4 | 4 | 0% | 57 | 23 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Oregon Health & Science University Program | Portland | OR | 4 | 5 | 0% | 32 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Puerto Rico Program | San Juan | PR | 4 | 4 | 0% | 35 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Prisma Health/University of South Carolina SOM Greenville (Greenville) Program | Greenville | SC | 4 | 3 | 0% | 65 | 30 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Program | Austin | TX | 4 | 7 | 0% | 21 | 21 | REQ | 19 | |||||
| University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Program | Houston | TX | 4 | 4 | 0% | 52 | 21 | REQ | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 29 | |
| Texas A&M College of Medicine-Scott and White Medical Center (Temple) Program | Temple | TX | 4 | 3 | 0% | 60 | 10 | REQ | 13 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Program | Richmond | VA | 4 | 3 | 0% | 46 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
| University of Virginia Medical Center Program | Charlottesville | VA | 4 | 7 | 0% | 42 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals Program | Milwaukee | WI | 4 | 6 | 1 | 4% | 32 | 28 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Program | Madison | WI | 4 | 6 | 0% | 37 | 3 | REQ | 17 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| USA Health Program | Mobile | AL | 3 | 3 | 0% | 36 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Louisiana State University (Shreveport) Program | Shreveport | LA | 3 | 3 | 0% | 14 | 7 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Mississippi Medical Center Program | Jackson | MS | 3 | 6 | 0% | 32 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
| RowanSOM/Jefferson Health/Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Program | Stratford | NJ | 3 | 4 | 0% | 0 | 27 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 23 | |
| UPMC Medical Education/Hamot Program | Erie | PA | 3 | 4 | 0% | 7 | 13 | REQ | 17 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Baylor University Medical Center Program | Dallas | TX | 3 | 4 | 0% | 27 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Lubbock Program | Lubbock | TX | 3 | 7 | 0% | 32 | 11 | REQ | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 18 | |
| OhioHealth/Doctors Hospital Program | Columbus | OH | 2 | 5 | 0% | 0 | 27 | REQ | 10 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital Program | Phenix City | AL | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Arizona) Program | Phoenix | AZ | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| Riverside University Health System Program | Moreno Valley | CA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Community Memorial Health System Program | Ventura | CA | 0% | REQ | 29 | 14 | 0 | 57 | 20 | |||||
| Valley Consortium for Medical Education Program | Modesto | CA | 0% | 16 | ||||||||||
| Naval Medical Center (San Diego) Program | San Diego | CA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 25 | |||||
| Broward Health Program | Fort Lauderdale | FL | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Larkin Community Hospital Program | Miami | FL | 0% | 20 | ||||||||||
| HCA Healthcare/USF Morsani College of Medicine GME: Largo Medical Center Program | Largo | FL | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| University of Central Florida/HCA Healthcare GME (Ocala) Program | Ocala | FL | 0% | NA | 8 | |||||||||
| Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center Program | Fort Gordon | GA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 10 | |||||
| University of Hawaii Program | Honolulu | HI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |||||
| Tripler Army Medical Center Program | Tripler AMC | HI | 0% | NA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 14 | |||||
| Franciscan Health Olympia Fields Program | Olympia Fields | IL | 0% | NA | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 20 | |||||
| Southern Illinois University Program | Springfield | IL | 0% | REQ | 33 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Program | Baltimore | MD | 0% | REQ | 5 | |||||||||
| National Capital Consortium Program | Bethesda | MD | 0% | 29 | ||||||||||
| University of Michigan Health-West Program | Wyoming | MI | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| Beaumont Health (Farmington Hills and Dearborn) Program | Farmington Hills | MI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Ascension Genesys Hospital Program | Grand Blanc | MI | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital Program | Madison Heights | MI | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| McLaren Health Care/Oakland/MSU Program | Pontiac | MI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 83 | 17 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| McLaren Health Care/Greater Lansing/MSU Program | Lansing | MI | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||
| Garden City Hospital Program | Garden City | MI | 0% | NA | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 9 | |||||
| Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Program | Clinton Township | MI | 0% | NA | 25 | 50 | 0 | 25 | 10 | |||||
| McLaren Health Care/Macomb/MSU Program | Mt. Clemens | MI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 14 | |||||
| McLaren Health Care/Flint/MSU Program | Flint | MI | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Kansas City University GME Consortium (KCU-GME Consortium)/HCA Healthcare Kansas City Program | Kansas City | MO | 0% | REQ | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |||||
| OPTI West/Valley Hospital Medical Center Program | Las Vegas | NV | 0% | NA | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 10 | |||||
| Inspira Health Network/Inspira Medical Center Vineland Program | Vineland | NJ | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Rutgers Health/Jersey City Medical Center Program | Jersey City | NJ | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |||||
| Rutgers Health/Monmouth Medical Center Program | Long Branch | NJ | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| Nassau University Medical Center Program | East Meadow | NY | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||
| One Brooklyn Health System/Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center Program | Brooklyn | NY | 0% | 5 | ||||||||||
| Womack Army Medical Center Program | Fort Bragg | NC | #DIV/0! | 0 | ||||||||||
| Aultman Hospital/NEOMED Program | Canton | OH | #DIV/0! | NA | 0 | |||||||||
| Kettering Health Network Program | Dayton | OH | 0% | REQ | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Western Reserve Hospital Program | Cuyahoga Falls | OH | 0% | NA | 25 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation/South Pointe Hospital Program | Warrensville Heights | OH | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| St Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital Program | Youngstown | OH | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Mercy St Vincent Medical Center Program | Toledo | OH | 0% | REQ | 0 | 83 | 0 | 17 | 15 | |||||
| Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center/Regional Program | Cleveland | OH | 0% | NA | 10 | |||||||||
| Mount Carmel Health System Program | Grove City | OH | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Program | Tulsa | OK | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| Samaritan Health Services - Corvallis Program | Corvallis | OR | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Program | Philadelphia | PA | 0% | NA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 24 | |||||
| Wellspan Health/York Hospital Program | York | PA | 0% | OPT | 17 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| UPMC Medical Education (Harrisburg) Program | Harrisburg | PA | 0% | REQ | 10 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |||||
| Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Program | Erie | PA | 0% | NA | 14 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| Geisinger Health System (Wilkes Barre) Program | Wilkes-Barre | PA | #DIV/0! | REQ | 0 | |||||||||
| Robert Packer Hospital Program | Sayre | PA | 0% | OPT | 6 | |||||||||
| East Tennessee State University/Quillen College of Medicine Program | Johnson City | TN | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| William Beaumont Army Medical Center/Texas Tech University (El Paso) Program | El Paso | TX | 0% | OPT | 0 | 22 | 0 | 78 | 24 | |||||
| San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC) Program | Fort Sam Houston | TX | 0% | 28 | ||||||||||
| University of Vermont Medical Center Program | Burlington | VT | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |||||
| Naval Medical Center (Portsmouth) Program | Portsmouth | VA | 0% | 20 | ||||||||||
| Madigan Army Medical Center Program | Tacoma | WA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 15 | |||||
| Marshall University School of Medicine Program | Huntington | WV | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
What Are the Most Research-Heavy Orthopaedic Surgery Programs?
Here are the orthopaedic surgery programs with the highest average publications among matched applicants:
- University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago Program (9 publications on average)
- Albert Einstein Healthcare Network Program (8 publications on average)
- Johns Hopkins University Program (7 publications on average)
- University of California (San Francisco) Program (6 publications on average)
- Six programs with 7 publications on average
- Twenty-five programs with 6 publications on average
What Are the Least Research-Heavy Orthopaedic Surgery Programs?
Here are the orthopaedic surgery programs with the lowest average publications among matched applicants:
- University of Alabama Medical Center Program (4 publications on average)
- USA Health Program (3 publications on average)
- OhioHealth/Doctors Hospital Program (2 publications on average)
- Forty-seven programs with 4 publications on average
- Seven programs with 3 publications on average
Which Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Programs Have the Most MD-PhDs?
Are you hoping to get into an orthopaedic surgery residency program? Having an MD-PhD may help you stand out, but it’s not always necessary.
As noted previously, having an MD-PhD is associated with an increased likelihood of matching into orthopaedic surgery as a specialty. Note that this is a relatively small advantage (~7% match rate increase for those with a PhD vs. those without).
Check out this list of orthopaedic surgery residency programs in the US and their MD-PhD percentages.
| Residency program name | City | State | % current residents who were graduates of MD-PhD programs | # current residents who were graduates of joint MD-PhD program | Average number of peer-reviewed publications among matched applicants | Average number of research experiences among matched applicants | % matched applicants members of Alpha Omega Alpha (at the time of application) | % matched applicants members of Gold Humanism Honor Society (at the time of application) | Program curriculum includes a dedicated research rotation | % completed residents with non-academic U.S. practice career plans | % completed residents with plans to continue training in another program | % completed residents with plans to obtain a full-time or part-time academic position | % completed residents with other career plans | Total # Residents on Duty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital for Special Surgery/Cornell Medical Center Program | New York | NY | 9% | 4 | 6 | 18 | 36 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 46 |
| University of Rochester Program | Rochester | NY | 8% | 3 | 5 | 8 | 28 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| UPMC Medical Education Program | Pittsburgh | PA | 7% | 3 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 41 |
| Wright State University Program | Dayton | OH | 5% | 1 | 5 | 3 | 21 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| University of Chicago Program | Chicago | IL | 4% | 1 | 6 | 6 | 44 | 12 | REQ | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 25 |
| University of Missouri-Columbia Program | Columbia | MO | 4% | 1 | 6 | 10 | 32 | 8 | REQ | 10 | 80 | 10 | 0 | 25 |
| Albany Medical Center Program | Albany | NY | 4% | 1 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| Wake Forest University School of Medicine Program | Winston-Salem | NC | 4% | 1 | 5 | 26 | 8 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| University of North Carolina Hospitals Program | Chapel Hill | NC | 4% | 1 | 7 | 7 | 40 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Carolinas Medical Center Program | Charlotte | NC | 4% | 1 | 6 | 8 | 48 | 24 | OPT | 0 | 60 | 40 | 0 | 25 |
| Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center Program | Hershey | PA | 4% | 1 | 5 | 5 | 36 | 16 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals Program | Milwaukee | WI | 4% | 1 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 28 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Program | Chicago | IL | 3% | 1 | 5 | 8 | 52 | 29 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Program | Iowa City | IA | 3% | 1 | 6 | 6 | 59 | 14 | REQ | 0 | 91 | 0 | 9 | 30 |
| Johns Hopkins University Program | Baltimore | MD | 3% | 1 | 7 | 15 | 33 | 20 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| University of Michigan Health System Program | Ann Arbor | MI | 3% | 1 | 4 | 7 | 54 | 13 | REQ | 6 | 94 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium Program | St. Louis | MO | 3% | 1 | 5 | 11 | 51 | 26 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| University of Utah Health Program | Salt Lake City | UT | 3% | 1 | 5 | 7 | 43 | 23 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Program | Boston | MA | 2% | 1 | 4 | 13 | 28 | 17 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 60 |
| NYU Grossman School of Medicine/NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital Program | New York | NY | 1% | 1 | 5 | 13 | 44 | 9 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 70 |
| Womack Army Medical Center Program | Fort Bragg | NC | 0% | 0 | ||||||||||
| Aultman Hospital/NEOMED Program | Canton | OH | 0% | NA | 0 | |||||||||
| Geisinger Health System (Wilkes Barre) Program | Wilkes-Barre | PA | 0% | REQ | 0 | |||||||||
| Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital Program | Phenix City | AL | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| USA Health Program | Mobile | AL | 0% | 3 | 3 | 36 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Alabama Medical Center Program | Birmingham | AL | 0% | 4 | 8 | 43 | 17 | REQ | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 30 | |
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Arizona) Program | Phoenix | AZ | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson Program | Tucson | AZ | 0% | 5 | 6 | 35 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix Program | Phoenix | AZ | 0% | 5 | 4 | 20 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine Program | Little Rock | AR | 0% | 4 | 3 | 32 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Riverside University Health System Program | Moreno Valley | CA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Community Memorial Health System Program | Ventura | CA | 0% | REQ | 29 | 14 | 0 | 57 | 20 | |||||
| Valley Consortium for Medical Education Program | Modesto | CA | 0% | 16 | ||||||||||
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 0% | 5 | 7 | 24 | 10 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of California (San Francisco)/Fresno Program | Fresno | CA | 0% | 4 | 4 | 15 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of California (San Francisco) Program | San Francisco | CA | 0% | 6 | 9 | 35 | 9 | REQ | 0 | 93 | 0 | 7 | 35 | |
| Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Program | Loma Linda | CA | 0% | 4 | 6 | 40 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of California (Irvine) Program | Orange | CA | 0% | 4 | 7 | 45 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 0% | 5 | 10 | 17 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University Program | Redwood City | CA | 0% | 4 | 9 | 29 | 6 | NA | 0 | 93 | 7 | 0 | 35 | |
| University of California (San Diego) Medical Center Program | San Diego | CA | 0% | 4 | 9 | 26 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of California Davis Health Program | Sacramento | CA | 0% | 4 | 7 | 44 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 23 | |
| University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 0% | 5 | 10 | 58 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 39 | |
| St Mary's Hospital and Medical Center Program | San Francisco | CA | 0% | 6 | 7 | 33 | 0 | REQ | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Naval Medical Center (San Diego) Program | San Diego | CA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 25 | |||||
| Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Program | Torrance | CA | 0% | 5 | 6 | 56 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |
| University of Colorado Program | Aurora | CO | 0% | 5 | 9 | 35 | 15 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 34 | |
| Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program | New Haven | CT | 0% | 4 | 9 | 20 | 12 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Connecticut Program | Farmington | CT | 0% | 5 | 11 | 40 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| MedStar Health/Georgetown University Hospital Program | Washington | DC | 0% | 4 | 7 | 30 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| George Washington University Program | Washington | DC | 0% | 4 | 9 | 15 | 15 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Howard University Program | Washington | DC | 0% | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | REQ | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 21 | |
| Broward Health Program | Fort Lauderdale | FL | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Larkin Community Hospital Program | Miami | FL | 0% | 20 | ||||||||||
| HCA Healthcare/USF Morsani College of Medicine GME: Largo Medical Center Program | Largo | FL | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| University of Central Florida/HCA Healthcare GME (Ocala) Program | Ocala | FL | 0% | NA | 8 | |||||||||
| University of South Florida Morsani Program | Tampa | FL | 0% | 5 | 11 | 65 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville Program | Jacksonville | FL | 0% | 5 | 4 | 10 | 5 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Miami/Jackson Health System Program | Miami | FL | 0% | 6 | 13 | 34 | 6 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 35 | |
| University of Florida Program | Gainesville | FL | 0% | 4 | 4 | 40 | 25 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Orlando Health Program | Orlando | FL | 0% | 5 | 5 | 30 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 23 | |
| Emory University School of Medicine Program | Atlanta | GA | 0% | 6 | 11 | 40 | 17 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Medical College of Georgia Program | Augusta | GA | 0% | 4 | 3 | 35 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 88 | 0 | 13 | 20 | |
| Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center Program | Fort Gordon | GA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 10 | |||||
| WellStar Atlanta Medical Center Program | Atlanta | GA | 0% | 6 | 3 | 10 | 20 | REQ | 14 | 71 | 0 | 14 | 20 | |
| University of Hawaii Program | Honolulu | HI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |||||
| Tripler Army Medical Center Program | Tripler AMC | HI | 0% | NA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 14 | |||||
| Franciscan Health Olympia Fields Program | Olympia Fields | IL | 0% | NA | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 20 | |||||
| University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago Program | Chicago | IL | 0% | 9 | 11 | 32 | 6 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 35 | |
| Loyola University Medical Center Program | Maywood | IL | 0% | 6 | 10 | 20 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Southern Illinois University Program | Springfield | IL | 0% | REQ | 33 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Rush University Medical Center Program | Chicago | IL | 0% | 4 | 12 | 48 | 12 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Indiana University School of Medicine Program | Indianapolis | IN | 0% | 5 | 5 | 63 | 3 | REQ | 13 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 29 | |
| University of Kansas School of Medicine Program | Kansas City | KS | 0% | 4 | 6 | 29 | 19 | REQ | 13 | 75 | 13 | 0 | 19 | |
| University of Kansas (Wichita) Program | Wichita | KS | 0% | 4 | 3 | 30 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Louisville School of Medicine Program | Louisville | KY | 0% | 5 | 3 | 36 | 16 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
| University of Kentucky College of Medicine Program | Lexington | KY | 0% | 6 | 6 | 40 | 12 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Louisiana State University (Shreveport) Program | Shreveport | LA | 0% | 3 | 3 | 14 | 7 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Louisiana State University Program | New Orleans | LA | 0% | 5 | 3 | 45 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation Program | New Orleans | LA | 0% | 5 | 7 | 56 | 6 | REQ | 40 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Tulane University Program | New Orleans | LA | 0% | 4 | 9 | 19 | 13 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Program | Baltimore | MD | 0% | REQ | 5 | |||||||||
| National Capital Consortium Program | Bethesda | MD | 0% | 29 | ||||||||||
| MedStar Health/Union Memorial Hospital Program | Baltimore | MD | 0% | 6 | 8 | 50 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
| University of Maryland Program | Baltimore | MD | 0% | 5 | 5 | 40 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |
| Tufts Medical Center Program | Boston | MA | 0% | 5 | 9 | 50 | 15 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| UMass Chan Medical School Program | Worcester | MA | 0% | 4 | 8 | 32 | 16 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Boston University Medical Center Program | Boston | MA | 0% | 4 | 14 | 9 | 9 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Michigan Health-West Program | Wyoming | MI | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| Beaumont Health (Farmington Hills and Dearborn) Program | Farmington Hills | MI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Ascension Genesys Hospital Program | Grand Blanc | MI | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital Program | Madison Heights | MI | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| McLaren Health Care/Oakland/MSU Program | Pontiac | MI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 83 | 17 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| McLaren Health Care/Greater Lansing/MSU Program | Lansing | MI | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||
| Garden City Hospital Program | Garden City | MI | 0% | NA | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 9 | |||||
| Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Program | Clinton Township | MI | 0% | NA | 25 | 50 | 0 | 25 | 10 | |||||
| McLaren Health Care/Macomb/MSU Program | Mt. Clemens | MI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 14 | |||||
| Beaumont Health (Royal Oak and Taylor) Program | Royal Oak | MI | 0% | 6 | 10 | 28 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 41 | |
| Ascension Providence/MSUCHM Program | Southfield | MI | 0% | 4 | 7 | 8 | 0 | REQ | 11 | |||||
| Henry Ford Hospital Program | Detroit | MI | 0% | 5 | 7 | 43 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| McLaren Health Care/Flint/MSU Program | Flint | MI | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine Program | Kalamazoo | MI | 0% | 4 | 4 | 73 | 0 | REQ | 33 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Spectrum Health/Michigan State University Program | Grand Rapids | MI | 0% | 4 | 3 | 52 | 20 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University Program | Detroit | MI | 0% | 5 | 9 | 10 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Minnesota Program | Minneapolis | MN | 0% | 5 | 6 | 28 | 10 | NA | 7 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester) Program | Rochester | MN | 0% | 5 | 9 | 58 | 16 | OPT | 0 | 96 | 0 | 4 | 63 | |
| University of Mississippi Medical Center Program | Jackson | MS | 0% | 3 | 6 | 32 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
| Kansas City University GME Consortium (KCU-GME Consortium)/HCA Healthcare Kansas City Program | Kansas City | MO | 0% | REQ | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |||||
| University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Program | Kansas City | MO | 0% | 4 | 3 | 30 | 35 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| St Louis University School of Medicine Program | St. Louis | MO | 0% | 4 | 7 | 17 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
| University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine Program | Omaha | NE | 0% | 6 | 6 | 40 | 0 | NA | 0 | 90 | 10 | 0 | 25 | |
| Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Program | Las Vegas | NV | 0% | 4 | 5 | 15 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| OPTI West/Valley Hospital Medical Center Program | Las Vegas | NV | 0% | NA | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 10 | |||||
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Program | Lebanon | NH | 0% | 6 | 7 | 40 | 15 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Cooper Medical School of Rowan University/Cooper University Hospital Program | Camden | NJ | 0% | 6 | 13 | 40 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Inspira Health Network/Inspira Medical Center Vineland Program | Vineland | NJ | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Rutgers Health/Jersey City Medical Center Program | Jersey City | NJ | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |||||
| RowanSOM/Jefferson Health/Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Program | Stratford | NJ | 0% | 3 | 4 | 0 | 27 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 23 | |
| Rutgers Health/Monmouth Medical Center Program | Long Branch | NJ | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| St Joseph's University Medical Center Program | Paterson | NJ | 0% | 4 | 14 | 0 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 75 | 0 | 25 | 15 | |
| Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Program | New Brunswick | NJ | 0% | 5 | 5 | 14 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Rutgers Health/New Jersey Medical School Program | Newark | NJ | 0% | 4 | 7 | 23 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| University of New Mexico School of Medicine Program | Albuquerque | NM | 0% | 6 | 6 | 32 | 20 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
| Nassau University Medical Center Program | East Meadow | NY | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Huntington Hospital Program | Huntington | NY | 0% | 4 | 10 | 4 | 8 | NA | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 28 | |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program | New York | NY | 0% | 5 | 10 | 37 | 6 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 35 | |
| NYU Long Island School of Medicine Program | Mineola | NY | 0% | 5 | 6 | 9 | 0 | REQ | 12 | |||||
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Lenox Hill Hospital Program | New York | NY | 0% | 5 | 16 | 30 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
| University at Buffalo Program | Buffalo | NY | 0% | 4 | 4 | 48 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| SUNY Upstate Medical University Program | Syracuse | NY | 0% | 5 | 5 | 32 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Westchester Medical Center Program | Valhalla | NY | 0% | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Maimonides Medical Center Program | Brooklyn | NY | 0% | 5 | 11 | 14 | 7 | OPT | 57 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Program | Brooklyn | NY | 0% | 4 | 17 | 33 | 10 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Program | New Hyde Park | NY | 0% | 7 | 15 | 35 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Stony Brook Medicine/University Hospital Program | Stony Brook | NY | 0% | 5 | 7 | 28 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Program | Bronx | NY | 0% | 5 | 8 | 37 | 10 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) Program | New York | NY | 0% | 5 | 11 | 45 | 6 | REQ | 30 | |||||
| One Brooklyn Health System/Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center Program | Brooklyn | NY | 0% | 5 | ||||||||||
| Duke University Hospital Program | Durham | NC | 0% | 5 | 16 | 23 | 15 | OPT | 0 | 88 | 0 | 12 | 40 | |
| Univ of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences Program | Fargo | ND | 0% | 4 | 8 | 7 | 7 | REQ | 12 | |||||
| OhioHealth/Doctors Hospital Program | Columbus | OH | 0% | 2 | 5 | 0 | 27 | REQ | 10 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Kettering Health Network Program | Dayton | OH | 0% | REQ | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Western Reserve Hospital Program | Cuyahoga Falls | OH | 0% | NA | 25 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation/South Pointe Hospital Program | Warrensville Heights | OH | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| St Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital Program | Youngstown | OH | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Mercy St Vincent Medical Center Program | Toledo | OH | 0% | REQ | 0 | 83 | 0 | 17 | 15 | |||||
| Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center/Regional Program | Cleveland | OH | 0% | NA | 10 | |||||||||
| Summa Health System/NEOMED Program | Akron | OH | 0% | 4 | 3 | 20 | 5 | REQ | 13 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |
| University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Medicine Program | Cincinnati | OH | 0% | 5 | 7 | 44 | 28 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Program | Cleveland | OH | 0% | 7 | 9 | 50 | 13 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Akron General Medical Center/NEOMED Program | Akron | OH | 0% | 5 | 3 | 27 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Ohio State University Hospital Program | Columbus | OH | 0% | 4 | 11 | 30 | 17 | OPT | 10 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation Program | Cleveland | OH | 0% | 6 | 20 | 23 | 10 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| University of Toledo Program | Toledo | OH | 0% | 4 | 3 | 95 | 10 | OPT | 0 | 78 | 22 | 0 | 20 | |
| Mount Carmel Health System Program | Grove City | OH | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Program | Tulsa | OK | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Program | Oklahoma City | OK | 0% | 4 | 4 | 57 | 23 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Samaritan Health Services - Corvallis Program | Corvallis | OR | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Oregon Health & Science University Program | Portland | OR | 0% | 4 | 5 | 32 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Program | Philadelphia | PA | 0% | NA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 24 | |||||
| Wellspan Health/York Hospital Program | York | PA | 0% | OPT | 17 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| UPMC Medical Education (Harrisburg) Program | Harrisburg | PA | 0% | REQ | 10 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |||||
| Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Program | Erie | PA | 0% | NA | 14 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| Robert Packer Hospital Program | Sayre | PA | 0% | OPT | 6 | |||||||||
| Albert Einstein Healthcare Network Program | Philadelphia | PA | 0% | 8 | 10 | 25 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University/TJUH Program | Philadelphia | PA | 0% | 5 | 16 | 40 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 34 | |
| University of Pennsylvania Health System Program | Philadelphia | PA | 0% | 5 | 9 | 44 | 15 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 43 | |
| Temple University Hospital Program | Philadelphia | PA | 0% | 5 | 8 | 20 | 0 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Allegheny Health Network Medical Education Consortium (AGH) Program | Pittsburgh | PA | 0% | 5 | 7 | 20 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |
| St Luke's University Hospital Program | Bethlehem | PA | 0% | 5 | 8 | 17 | 0 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Geisinger Health System Program | Danville | PA | 0% | 7 | 6 | 15 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| UPMC Medical Education/Hamot Program | Erie | PA | 0% | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | REQ | 17 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| University of Puerto Rico Program | San Juan | PR | 0% | 4 | 4 | 35 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Brown University Program | Providence | RI | 0% | 6 | 8 | 66 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Prisma Health/University of South Carolina SOM Greenville (Greenville) Program | Greenville | SC | 0% | 4 | 3 | 65 | 30 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Medical University of South Carolina Program | Charleston | SC | 0% | 5 | 4 | 24 | 12 | REQ | 0 | 89 | 0 | 11 | 19 | |
| Prisma Health/University of South Carolina SOM Columbia (Columbia) Program | Columbia | SC | 0% | 5 | 5 | 39 | 17 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| East Tennessee State University/Quillen College of Medicine Program | Johnson City | TN | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center Program | Nashville | TN | 0% | 5 | 4 | 52 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Tennessee College of Medicine at Chattanooga Program | Chattanooga | TN | 0% | 5 | 4 | 33 | 7 | REQ | 33 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 15 | |
| University of Tennessee/Campbell Clinic Program | Memphis | TN | 0% | 5 | 5 | 50 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
| Methodist Hospital (Houston) Program | Houston | TX | 0% | 7 | 7 | 40 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 83 | 0 | 17 | 15 | |
| Baylor University Medical Center Program | Dallas | TX | 0% | 3 | 4 | 27 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Program | Austin | TX | 0% | 4 | 7 | 21 | 21 | REQ | 19 | |||||
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Program | Dallas | TX | 0% | 6 | 6 | 20 | 13 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals Program | Galveston | TX | 0% | 5 | 3 | 24 | 4 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Program | Houston | TX | 0% | 4 | 4 | 52 | 21 | REQ | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 29 | |
| Texas A&M College of Medicine-Scott and White Medical Center (Temple) Program | Temple | TX | 0% | 4 | 3 | 60 | 10 | REQ | 13 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
| William Beaumont Army Medical Center/Texas Tech University (El Paso) Program | El Paso | TX | 0% | OPT | 0 | 22 | 0 | 78 | 24 | |||||
| John Peter Smith Hospital (Tarrant County Hospital District) Program | Fort Worth | TX | 0% | 5 | 3 | 50 | 15 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Baylor College of Medicine Program | Houston | TX | 0% | 6 | 7 | 37 | 17 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine Program | San Antonio | TX | 0% | 6 | 5 | 56 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |
| Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Lubbock Program | Lubbock | TX | 0% | 3 | 7 | 32 | 11 | REQ | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 18 | |
| San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC) Program | Fort Sam Houston | TX | 0% | 28 | ||||||||||
| University of Vermont Medical Center Program | Burlington | VT | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |||||
| Naval Medical Center (Portsmouth) Program | Portsmouth | VA | 0% | 20 | ||||||||||
| Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Program | Richmond | VA | 0% | 4 | 3 | 46 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
| University of Virginia Medical Center Program | Charlottesville | VA | 0% | 4 | 7 | 42 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Washington Program | Seattle | WA | 0% | 6 | 9 | 35 | 13 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
| Madigan Army Medical Center Program | Tacoma | WA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 15 | |||||
| Marshall University School of Medicine Program | Huntington | WV | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| West Virginia University Program | Morgantown | WV | 0% | 5 | 7 | 25 | 15 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Program | Madison | WI | 0% | 4 | 6 | 37 | 3 | REQ | 17 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Orthopaedic Surgery Programs with the Highest Percentage of MD-PhDs
Here are the orthopaedic surgery programs with the highest reported % of residents who were graduates of MD-PhD programs:
- Hospital for Special Surgery/Cornell Medical Center Program (9%)
- University of Rochester Program (8%)
- UPMC Medical Education Program (7%)
- Wright State University Program (5%)
- University of Chicago Program (4%)
Orthopaedic Surgery Programs with the Lowest Percentage of MD-PhDs
While having an MD-PhD can give you a leg up on matching into orthopaedic surgery, note that there are many (many) programs without an MD-PhD among their residents. In fact, there were only 20 programs that reported having any graduates from MD-PhD programs.
Which Orthopaedic Surgery Programs Have the Most AOA and Gold Humanism Honor Society Members?
Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) and Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) memberships are two important factors in the orthopaedic surgery residency matching process. AOA recognizes students and residents who excel academically, in leadership, and in professionalism, while GHHS recognizes individuals who demonstrate exceptional qualities in patient-centered care and humanism.
As noted before, AOA membership is associated with an increased likelihood of matching into orthopaedic surgery.
Here we list the US orthopaedic surgery residency programs and the % of their residents who were AOA or GHHS members. Note you can search for individual programs, sort the data, and many other useful things in your orthopaedic surgery residency search.
| Residency program name | City | State | % matched applicants members of Alpha Omega Alpha (at the time of application) | % matched applicants members of Gold Humanism Honor Society (at the time of application) | # current residents who were graduates of joint MD-PhD program | % current residents who were graduates of MD-PhD programs | Average number of peer-reviewed publications among matched applicants | Average number of research experiences among matched applicants | Program curriculum includes a dedicated research rotation | % completed residents with non-academic U.S. practice career plans | % completed residents with plans to continue training in another program | % completed residents with plans to obtain a full-time or part-time academic position | % completed residents with other career plans | Total # Residents on Duty |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Toledo Program | Toledo | OH | 95 | 10 | 0% | 4 | 3 | OPT | 0 | 78 | 22 | 0 | 20 | |
| Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine Program | Kalamazoo | MI | 73 | 0 | 0% | 4 | 4 | REQ | 33 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Brown University Program | Providence | RI | 66 | 7 | 0% | 6 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| University of South Florida Morsani Program | Tampa | FL | 65 | 5 | 0% | 5 | 11 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Prisma Health/University of South Carolina SOM Greenville (Greenville) Program | Greenville | SC | 65 | 30 | 0% | 4 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Indiana University School of Medicine Program | Indianapolis | IN | 63 | 3 | 0% | 5 | 5 | REQ | 13 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 29 | |
| Texas A&M College of Medicine-Scott and White Medical Center (Temple) Program | Temple | TX | 60 | 10 | 0% | 4 | 3 | REQ | 13 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
| University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Program | Iowa City | IA | 59 | 14 | 1 | 3% | 6 | 6 | REQ | 0 | 91 | 0 | 9 | 30 |
| University of Southern California/LAC+USC Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 58 | 13 | 0% | 5 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 39 | |
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Rochester) Program | Rochester | MN | 58 | 16 | 0% | 5 | 9 | OPT | 0 | 96 | 0 | 4 | 63 | |
| University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Program | Oklahoma City | OK | 57 | 23 | 0% | 4 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Program | Torrance | CA | 56 | 16 | 0% | 5 | 6 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation Program | New Orleans | LA | 56 | 6 | 0% | 5 | 7 | REQ | 40 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine Program | San Antonio | TX | 56 | 13 | 0% | 6 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |
| University of Michigan Health System Program | Ann Arbor | MI | 54 | 13 | 1 | 3% | 4 | 7 | REQ | 6 | 94 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
| McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University Program | Chicago | IL | 52 | 29 | 1 | 3% | 5 | 8 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| Spectrum Health/Michigan State University Program | Grand Rapids | MI | 52 | 20 | 0% | 4 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center Program | Nashville | TN | 52 | 8 | 0% | 5 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Program | Houston | TX | 52 | 21 | 0% | 4 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 29 | |
| Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium Program | St. Louis | MO | 51 | 26 | 1 | 3% | 5 | 11 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| MedStar Health/Union Memorial Hospital Program | Baltimore | MD | 50 | 0 | 0% | 6 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Tufts Medical Center Program | Boston | MA | 50 | 15 | 0% | 5 | 9 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Program | Cleveland | OH | 50 | 13 | 0% | 7 | 9 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| University of Tennessee/Campbell Clinic Program | Memphis | TN | 50 | 13 | 0% | 5 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
| John Peter Smith Hospital (Tarrant County Hospital District) Program | Fort Worth | TX | 50 | 15 | 0% | 5 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Rush University Medical Center Program | Chicago | IL | 48 | 12 | 0% | 4 | 12 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University at Buffalo Program | Buffalo | NY | 48 | 8 | 0% | 4 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Carolinas Medical Center Program | Charlotte | NC | 48 | 24 | 1 | 4% | 6 | 8 | OPT | 0 | 60 | 40 | 0 | 25 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Program | Richmond | VA | 46 | 8 | 0% | 4 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
| University of California (Irvine) Program | Orange | CA | 45 | 0 | 0% | 4 | 7 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Louisiana State University Program | New Orleans | LA | 45 | 5 | 0% | 5 | 3 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) Program | New York | NY | 45 | 6 | 0% | 5 | 11 | REQ | 30 | |||||
| University of California Davis Health Program | Sacramento | CA | 44 | 6 | 0% | 4 | 7 | OPT | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 23 | |
| University of Chicago Program | Chicago | IL | 44 | 12 | 1 | 4% | 6 | 6 | REQ | 0 | 90 | 0 | 10 | 25 |
| NYU Grossman School of Medicine/NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital Program | New York | NY | 44 | 9 | 1 | 1% | 5 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 70 |
| University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Medicine Program | Cincinnati | OH | 44 | 28 | 0% | 5 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Pennsylvania Health System Program | Philadelphia | PA | 44 | 15 | 0% | 5 | 9 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 43 | |
| University of Alabama Medical Center Program | Birmingham | AL | 43 | 17 | 0% | 4 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 30 | |
| Henry Ford Hospital Program | Detroit | MI | 43 | 10 | 0% | 5 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| University of Utah Health Program | Salt Lake City | UT | 43 | 23 | 1 | 3% | 5 | 7 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| University of Virginia Medical Center Program | Charlottesville | VA | 42 | 4 | 0% | 4 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium Program | Loma Linda | CA | 40 | 4 | 0% | 4 | 6 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Connecticut Program | Farmington | CT | 40 | 16 | 0% | 5 | 11 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Florida Program | Gainesville | FL | 40 | 25 | 0% | 4 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Emory University School of Medicine Program | Atlanta | GA | 40 | 17 | 0% | 6 | 11 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| University of Kentucky College of Medicine Program | Lexington | KY | 40 | 12 | 0% | 6 | 6 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Maryland Program | Baltimore | MD | 40 | 10 | 0% | 5 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |
| University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine Program | Omaha | NE | 40 | 0 | 0% | 6 | 6 | NA | 0 | 90 | 10 | 0 | 25 | |
| Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Program | Lebanon | NH | 40 | 15 | 0% | 6 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Cooper Medical School of Rowan University/Cooper University Hospital Program | Camden | NJ | 40 | 10 | 0% | 6 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| University of North Carolina Hospitals Program | Chapel Hill | NC | 40 | 4 | 1 | 4% | 7 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University/TJUH Program | Philadelphia | PA | 40 | 7 | 0% | 5 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 34 | |
| Methodist Hospital (Houston) Program | Houston | TX | 40 | 13 | 0% | 7 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 83 | 0 | 17 | 15 | |
| Prisma Health/University of South Carolina SOM Columbia (Columbia) Program | Columbia | SC | 39 | 17 | 0% | 5 | 5 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 17 | |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program | New York | NY | 37 | 6 | 0% | 5 | 10 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 35 | |
| Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine Program | Bronx | NY | 37 | 10 | 0% | 5 | 8 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Baylor College of Medicine Program | Houston | TX | 37 | 17 | 0% | 6 | 7 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Program | Madison | WI | 37 | 3 | 0% | 4 | 6 | REQ | 17 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| USA Health Program | Mobile | AL | 36 | 7 | 0% | 3 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Louisville School of Medicine Program | Louisville | KY | 36 | 16 | 0% | 5 | 3 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
| Hospital for Special Surgery/Cornell Medical Center Program | New York | NY | 36 | 16 | 4 | 9% | 6 | 18 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 46 |
| Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center Program | Hershey | PA | 36 | 16 | 1 | 4% | 5 | 5 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson Program | Tucson | AZ | 35 | 5 | 0% | 5 | 6 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of California (San Francisco) Program | San Francisco | CA | 35 | 9 | 0% | 6 | 9 | REQ | 0 | 93 | 0 | 7 | 35 | |
| University of Colorado Program | Aurora | CO | 35 | 15 | 0% | 5 | 9 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 34 | |
| Medical College of Georgia Program | Augusta | GA | 35 | 10 | 0% | 4 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 88 | 0 | 13 | 20 | |
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Program | New Hyde Park | NY | 35 | 5 | 0% | 7 | 15 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Puerto Rico Program | San Juan | PR | 35 | 10 | 0% | 4 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Washington Program | Seattle | WA | 35 | 13 | 0% | 6 | 9 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
| University of Miami/Jackson Health System Program | Miami | FL | 34 | 6 | 0% | 6 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 35 | |
| St Mary's Hospital and Medical Center Program | San Francisco | CA | 33 | 0 | 0% | 6 | 7 | REQ | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Johns Hopkins University Program | Baltimore | MD | 33 | 20 | 1 | 3% | 7 | 15 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University Program | Brooklyn | NY | 33 | 10 | 0% | 4 | 17 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| University of Tennessee College of Medicine at Chattanooga Program | Chattanooga | TN | 33 | 7 | 0% | 5 | 4 | REQ | 33 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 15 | |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine Program | Little Rock | AR | 32 | 8 | 0% | 4 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago Program | Chicago | IL | 32 | 6 | 0% | 9 | 11 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 35 | |
| UMass Chan Medical School Program | Worcester | MA | 32 | 16 | 0% | 4 | 8 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| University of Mississippi Medical Center Program | Jackson | MS | 32 | 16 | 0% | 3 | 6 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 19 | |
| University of Missouri-Columbia Program | Columbia | MO | 32 | 8 | 1 | 4% | 6 | 10 | REQ | 10 | 80 | 10 | 0 | 25 |
| University of New Mexico School of Medicine Program | Albuquerque | NM | 32 | 20 | 0% | 6 | 6 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
| SUNY Upstate Medical University Program | Syracuse | NY | 32 | 4 | 0% | 5 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Oregon Health & Science University Program | Portland | OR | 32 | 4 | 0% | 4 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Lubbock Program | Lubbock | TX | 32 | 11 | 0% | 3 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 0 | 100 | 0 | 18 | |
| Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals Program | Milwaukee | WI | 32 | 28 | 1 | 4% | 4 | 6 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| MedStar Health/Georgetown University Hospital Program | Washington | DC | 30 | 10 | 0% | 4 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Orlando Health Program | Orlando | FL | 30 | 13 | 0% | 5 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 23 | |
| University of Kansas (Wichita) Program | Wichita | KS | 30 | 10 | 0% | 4 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Program | Kansas City | MO | 30 | 35 | 0% | 4 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Lenox Hill Hospital Program | New York | NY | 30 | 10 | 0% | 5 | 16 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Ohio State University Hospital Program | Columbus | OH | 30 | 17 | 0% | 4 | 11 | OPT | 10 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 31 | |
| Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University Program | Redwood City | CA | 29 | 6 | 0% | 4 | 9 | NA | 0 | 93 | 7 | 0 | 35 | |
| University of Kansas School of Medicine Program | Kansas City | KS | 29 | 19 | 0% | 4 | 6 | REQ | 13 | 75 | 13 | 0 | 19 | |
| Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Program | Boston | MA | 28 | 17 | 1 | 2% | 4 | 13 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 60 |
| Beaumont Health (Royal Oak and Taylor) Program | Royal Oak | MI | 28 | 3 | 0% | 6 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 41 | |
| University of Minnesota Program | Minneapolis | MN | 28 | 10 | 0% | 5 | 6 | NA | 7 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
| University of Rochester Program | Rochester | NY | 28 | 3 | 3 | 8% | 5 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 39 |
| Stony Brook Medicine/University Hospital Program | Stony Brook | NY | 28 | 8 | 0% | 5 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Akron General Medical Center/NEOMED Program | Akron | OH | 27 | 0 | 0% | 5 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Baylor University Medical Center Program | Dallas | TX | 27 | 7 | 0% | 3 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of California (San Diego) Medical Center Program | San Diego | CA | 26 | 13 | 0% | 4 | 9 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Albert Einstein Healthcare Network Program | Philadelphia | PA | 25 | 8 | 0% | 8 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |
| West Virginia University Program | Morgantown | WV | 25 | 15 | 0% | 5 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 24 | 10 | 0% | 5 | 7 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Medical University of South Carolina Program | Charleston | SC | 24 | 12 | 0% | 5 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 89 | 0 | 11 | 19 | |
| University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals Program | Galveston | TX | 24 | 4 | 0% | 5 | 3 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Rutgers Health/New Jersey Medical School Program | Newark | NJ | 23 | 3 | 0% | 4 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Duke University Hospital Program | Durham | NC | 23 | 15 | 0% | 5 | 16 | OPT | 0 | 88 | 0 | 12 | 40 | |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation Program | Cleveland | OH | 23 | 10 | 0% | 6 | 20 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Wright State University Program | Dayton | OH | 21 | 16 | 1 | 5% | 5 | 3 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School Program | Austin | TX | 21 | 21 | 0% | 4 | 7 | REQ | 19 | |||||
| University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix Program | Phoenix | AZ | 20 | 0 | 0% | 5 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program | New Haven | CT | 20 | 12 | 0% | 4 | 9 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Loyola University Medical Center Program | Maywood | IL | 20 | 16 | 0% | 6 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Summa Health System/NEOMED Program | Akron | OH | 20 | 5 | 0% | 4 | 3 | REQ | 13 | 88 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |
| Temple University Hospital Program | Philadelphia | PA | 20 | 0 | 0% | 5 | 8 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |
| Allegheny Health Network Medical Education Consortium (AGH) Program | Pittsburgh | PA | 20 | 16 | 0% | 5 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 24 | |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Program | Dallas | TX | 20 | 13 | 0% | 6 | 6 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| Tulane University Program | New Orleans | LA | 19 | 13 | 0% | 4 | 9 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| UPMC Medical Education Program | Pittsburgh | PA | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7% | 6 | 9 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 41 |
| UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center Program | Los Angeles | CA | 17 | 0 | 0% | 5 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 30 | |
| St Louis University School of Medicine Program | St. Louis | MO | 17 | 4 | 0% | 4 | 7 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
| St Luke's University Hospital Program | Bethlehem | PA | 17 | 0 | 0% | 5 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Albany Medical Center Program | Albany | NY | 16 | 0 | 1 | 4% | 5 | 8 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| University of California (San Francisco)/Fresno Program | Fresno | CA | 15 | 5 | 0% | 4 | 4 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| George Washington University Program | Washington | DC | 15 | 15 | 0% | 4 | 9 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Howard University Program | Washington | DC | 15 | 20 | 0% | 5 | 10 | REQ | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 21 | |
| Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Program | Las Vegas | NV | 15 | 5 | 0% | 4 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Geisinger Health System Program | Danville | PA | 15 | 10 | 0% | 7 | 6 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Louisiana State University (Shreveport) Program | Shreveport | LA | 14 | 7 | 0% | 3 | 3 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Program | New Brunswick | NJ | 14 | 0 | 0% | 5 | 5 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Maimonides Medical Center Program | Brooklyn | NY | 14 | 7 | 0% | 5 | 11 | OPT | 57 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville Program | Jacksonville | FL | 10 | 5 | 0% | 5 | 4 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| WellStar Atlanta Medical Center Program | Atlanta | GA | 10 | 20 | 0% | 6 | 3 | REQ | 14 | 71 | 0 | 14 | 20 | |
| Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University Program | Detroit | MI | 10 | 10 | 0% | 5 | 9 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |
| Boston University Medical Center Program | Boston | MA | 9 | 9 | 0% | 4 | 14 | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| NYU Long Island School of Medicine Program | Mineola | NY | 9 | 0 | 0% | 5 | 6 | REQ | 12 | |||||
| Ascension Providence/MSUCHM Program | Southfield | MI | 8 | 0 | 0% | 4 | 7 | REQ | 11 | |||||
| Wake Forest University School of Medicine Program | Winston-Salem | NC | 8 | 16 | 1 | 4% | 5 | 26 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Univ of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences Program | Fargo | ND | 7 | 7 | 0% | 4 | 8 | REQ | 12 | |||||
| UPMC Medical Education/Hamot Program | Erie | PA | 7 | 13 | 0% | 3 | 4 | REQ | 17 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Huntington Hospital Program | Huntington | NY | 4 | 8 | 0% | 4 | 10 | NA | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 28 | |
| Jack Hughston Memorial Hospital Program | Phenix City | AL | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (Arizona) Program | Phoenix | AZ | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| Riverside University Health System Program | Moreno Valley | CA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Community Memorial Health System Program | Ventura | CA | 0% | REQ | 29 | 14 | 0 | 57 | 20 | |||||
| Valley Consortium for Medical Education Program | Modesto | CA | 0% | 16 | ||||||||||
| Naval Medical Center (San Diego) Program | San Diego | CA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 25 | |||||
| Broward Health Program | Fort Lauderdale | FL | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Larkin Community Hospital Program | Miami | FL | 0% | 20 | ||||||||||
| HCA Healthcare/USF Morsani College of Medicine GME: Largo Medical Center Program | Largo | FL | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| University of Central Florida/HCA Healthcare GME (Ocala) Program | Ocala | FL | 0% | NA | 8 | |||||||||
| Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center Program | Fort Gordon | GA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 10 | |||||
| University of Hawaii Program | Honolulu | HI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |||||
| Tripler Army Medical Center Program | Tripler AMC | HI | 0% | NA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 14 | |||||
| Franciscan Health Olympia Fields Program | Olympia Fields | IL | 0% | NA | 50 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 20 | |||||
| Southern Illinois University Program | Springfield | IL | 0% | REQ | 33 | 67 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Program | Baltimore | MD | 0% | REQ | 5 | |||||||||
| National Capital Consortium Program | Bethesda | MD | 0% | 29 | ||||||||||
| University of Michigan Health-West Program | Wyoming | MI | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||
| Beaumont Health (Farmington Hills and Dearborn) Program | Farmington Hills | MI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Ascension Genesys Hospital Program | Grand Blanc | MI | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital Program | Madison Heights | MI | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| McLaren Health Care/Oakland/MSU Program | Pontiac | MI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 83 | 17 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| McLaren Health Care/Greater Lansing/MSU Program | Lansing | MI | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 18 | |||||
| Garden City Hospital Program | Garden City | MI | 0% | NA | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 9 | |||||
| Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Program | Clinton Township | MI | 0% | NA | 25 | 50 | 0 | 25 | 10 | |||||
| McLaren Health Care/Macomb/MSU Program | Mt. Clemens | MI | 0% | OPT | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 14 | |||||
| McLaren Health Care/Flint/MSU Program | Flint | MI | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Kansas City University GME Consortium (KCU-GME Consortium)/HCA Healthcare Kansas City Program | Kansas City | MO | 0% | REQ | 50 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |||||
| OPTI West/Valley Hospital Medical Center Program | Las Vegas | NV | 0% | NA | 0 | 50 | 0 | 50 | 10 | |||||
| Inspira Health Network/Inspira Medical Center Vineland Program | Vineland | NJ | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Rutgers Health/Jersey City Medical Center Program | Jersey City | NJ | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |||||
| RowanSOM/Jefferson Health/Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Program | Stratford | NJ | 0 | 27 | 0% | 3 | 4 | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 23 | |
| Rutgers Health/Monmouth Medical Center Program | Long Branch | NJ | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| St Joseph's University Medical Center Program | Paterson | NJ | 0 | 7 | 0% | 4 | 14 | REQ | 0 | 75 | 0 | 25 | 15 | |
| Nassau University Medical Center Program | East Meadow | NY | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 12 | |||||
| Westchester Medical Center Program | Valhalla | NY | 0 | 0 | 0% | 5 | 11 | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |
| One Brooklyn Health System/Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center Program | Brooklyn | NY | 0% | 5 | ||||||||||
| Womack Army Medical Center Program | Fort Bragg | NC | #DIV/0! | 0 | ||||||||||
| Aultman Hospital/NEOMED Program | Canton | OH | #DIV/0! | NA | 0 | |||||||||
| OhioHealth/Doctors Hospital Program | Columbus | OH | 0 | 27 | 0% | 2 | 5 | REQ | 10 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |
| Kettering Health Network Program | Dayton | OH | 0% | REQ | 0 | 50 | 50 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Western Reserve Hospital Program | Cuyahoga Falls | OH | 0% | NA | 25 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation/South Pointe Hospital Program | Warrensville Heights | OH | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| St Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital Program | Youngstown | OH | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Mercy St Vincent Medical Center Program | Toledo | OH | 0% | REQ | 0 | 83 | 0 | 17 | 15 | |||||
| Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center/Regional Program | Cleveland | OH | 0% | NA | 10 | |||||||||
| Mount Carmel Health System Program | Grove City | OH | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Program | Tulsa | OK | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| Samaritan Health Services - Corvallis Program | Corvallis | OR | 0% | NA | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Program | Philadelphia | PA | 0% | NA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 24 | |||||
| Wellspan Health/York Hospital Program | York | PA | 0% | OPT | 17 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||
| UPMC Medical Education (Harrisburg) Program | Harrisburg | PA | 0% | REQ | 10 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |||||
| Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine Program | Erie | PA | 0% | NA | 14 | 86 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |||||
| Geisinger Health System (Wilkes Barre) Program | Wilkes-Barre | PA | #DIV/0! | REQ | 0 | |||||||||
| Robert Packer Hospital Program | Sayre | PA | 0% | OPT | 6 | |||||||||
| East Tennessee State University/Quillen College of Medicine Program | Johnson City | TN | 0% | OPT | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |||||
| William Beaumont Army Medical Center/Texas Tech University (El Paso) Program | El Paso | TX | 0% | OPT | 0 | 22 | 0 | 78 | 24 | |||||
| San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium (SAUSHEC) Program | Fort Sam Houston | TX | 0% | 28 | ||||||||||
| University of Vermont Medical Center Program | Burlington | VT | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |||||
| Naval Medical Center (Portsmouth) Program | Portsmouth | VA | 0% | 20 | ||||||||||
| Madigan Army Medical Center Program | Tacoma | WA | 0% | REQ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 15 | |||||
| Marshall University School of Medicine Program | Huntington | WV | 0% | REQ | 0 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
Orthopaedic Surgery Programs with the Most and Least AOA and GHHS Members
The orthopaedic surgery residency programs with the highest reported percentage of AOA members are:
- University of Toledo Program
- Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine Program
- Brown University Program
- University of South Florida Morsani Program
- Prisma Health/University of South Carolina SOM Greenville (Greenville) Program
- Indiana University School of Medicine Program
The orthopaedic surgery residency programs with the lowest reported percentage of AOA members are:
- Ascension Providence/MSUCHM Program
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine Program
- University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences Program
- UPMC Medical Education/Hamot Program
- Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Huntington Hospital Program
Are AOA Numbers Artificially Low in the Most Competitive Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Programs?
As we can see above, while AOA and GHHS membership can be beneficial, it’s not necessarily a critical factor in being accepted into an orthopaedic surgery residency program.
For example, the Harvard orthopaedic surgery program only had 28% of its residents with AOA membership and only 17% with GHHS membership. (The Harvard orthopaedic surgery program is Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School Program).
So, why might some of the most competitive orthopaedic surgery residency programs have fewer AOA and GHHS members? One potential explanation is that some of the most prestigious medical schools don’t have AOA chapters. For example, the medical schools at Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and UCSF all lack AOA chapters.
Ultimately, it’s essential to remember that AOA and GHHS membership can be important factors in getting accepted into an orthopaedic surgery residency program. However, they’re not the only ones. There are plenty of other ways to make your application stand out, such as having strong USMLE scores, letters of recommendation, and a well-crafted personal statement.
Concluding Thoughts
Publications; AOA and GHHS membership; and having a PhD can all benefit an application into orthopaedic surgery. However, as we can see, different orthopaedic surgery residency programs have different expectations as to what they are looking for in applicants.
