Women become the majority of medical residents for the first time

Women now account for more than half (50.2%) of all U.S. medical residents for the first time. The Association of America Medical Colleges’ 2025 “Report on Residents.” Women make up 89% of residents in obstetrics and gynecology; 76% in pediatrics; 59% in psychiatry and 56% in family medicine. Men are the majority in anesthesiology, ER and internal medicine and neurological and orthopaedic surgery. “Over the course of medical school, most medical students change their preferred residency specialty,” the report notes, adding that only about 56% of those who completed residency training the past 10 years practice in the state where they did their training.