2025 Match® Results for Family Medicine
The AAFP’s brief analysis of family medicine results from the annual National Resident Matching Program Main Residency Match® (NRMP Match) provides a snapshot of the incoming physician workforce at its most significant inflection point. These results do not account for other matching services, like the annual Military Match, private arrangements outside of the Match, or the Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program®.
Family Medicine Residency Positions Offered and Filled
These results are a combination of all PGY-1 positions that result in eligibility for licensure and board certification in family medicine. Those include family medicine-categorical and combined residency programs. Broken down:
- 817 family medicine-categorical programs offered a total of 5,357 positions and filled 4,552. The overall fill rate for family medicine-categorical programs was 85%.
- 7 family medicine-psychiatry programs offered and filled 14 positions.
- 3 emergency medicine-family medicine programs offered and filled 7 positions.
- 1 family medicine-preventive medicine program offered and filled 1 position.
Ways to Take Action Following Match 2025
Health care, education and societal systems need to incentivize, recruit and support a medical student population that better represents the U.S. population, especially medical students who are more likely to choose primary care careers and practice in underserved areas.
- While the NRMP Match results reflect momentum for residency training in family medicine, the U.S. medical education system is not meeting that momentum by recruiting and training students who are most likely to pursue primary care careers.
- It is urgent and vital for family medicine residency growth to continue and for the U.S. medical education and health care systems to collaborate in meeting the demand for family medicine in the United States. Impacting this trajectory will require reforms in the pathway to medical education, the process of medical education, the practice environment, and systems of payment and valuation in health care.
- The U.S. medical education system is far from delivering the primary care medical workforce needed in the country it serves by the taxpayers who fund it.
- The composition of residency training positions must reflect the needs of the physician workforce. As such, the number of positions in family medicine, other primary care specialties and a few other specialties must increase even more steeply than it has to date.
- To improve the health of Americans and the sustainability of the health care system, substantial increases in the family medicine and primary care workforce that also account for the composition, distribution and quality of that workforce are needed.
