Seven U-M residency programs make national top 5 for their specialties

In the latest Doximity Residency Navigator, the University of Michigan Medical School has 13 top 10 graduate medical education programs, including seven in the top 5. An additional 11 U-M programs ranked within the top 25.

University of Michigan Health’s surgery residency ranked No. 1 out of 355 programs, while otolaryngology was No. 2 of 131.

Other top 10 U-M programs include pathology (No. 3), plastic surgery (3), urology (3), medicine-pediatrics (4), nuclear medicine (4), anesthesiology (7), obstetrics and gynecology (7), radiation oncology (7), internal medicine (8), neurology (8) and ophthalmology (9).

“Over 20 top-ranked residency programs reflect University of Michigan Health’s continued ability to attract the best teachers and trainees,” said J. Sybil Biermann, M.D., associate dean for graduate medical education at the U-M Medical School.  

“I want to congratulate our faculty and staff. These rankings speak to their tireless work.”  

Among the other U-M residencies ranked in the top 25 of their specialties were neurological surgery (11), radiology (11), dermatology (12), family medicine (13), physical medicine and rehabilitation (13), child neurology (14), emergency medicine (18), pediatrics (18), psychiatry (20), orthopaedic surgery (21) and interventional radiology (24).

The Doximity Residency Navigator is a directory designed to help medical students make decisions during the match process. Students can read reviews from current and former residents for each program. Each specialty can be sorted by criteria such as reputation, research output and program size.

The above rankings reflect how the University of Michigan Medical School residency programs rank when each specialty is sorted by reputation. The reputation score is calculated based on the nominations of physicians whose eligibility was determined by their board certifications and weighted by alumni status.

For more information about the residency programs at U-M Medical School, visit medschool.umich.edu/programs-admissions/residency-fellowship.

To learn more about Doximity’s Residency Navigator results, visit doximity.com/residency.

About University of Michigan Medical School: The U-M Medical School is committed to educating the next generation of physicians, health professionals and scientists. It is one of the nation's biomedical research powerhouses, with total research awards of more than $830 million. In 2025, the U-M Medical School is celebrating its 175th anniversary. The school was the first to have medical professors who were full university faculty (1850), the first to open a university-owned hospital (1869), the first major medical school to admit women alongside men (1870) and the first to require clinical clerkship training for all students (1899). Learn more about its first 175 years at https://medumi.ch/175th.