Internal Medicine offered 11,632 categorical and primary positions — 280 more than in 2025 — and filled 11,078 positions, resulting in a 95.2 percent fill rate, a 1.6 percentage‑point decrease from last year. Internal Medicine-Pediatrics offered 404 positions — six more than in 2025 — and achieved a 100 percent fill rate, a 0.8 percentage‑point increase from prior year. Pediatrics offered 3,185 positions this year — eight fewer than in 2025 — and filled 3,006 positions, resulting in a 94.4 percent fill rate, a 0.9 percentage‑point decrease from last year. Family Medicine offered 5,491 positions in 2026 — an increase of 134 from 2025 — but the fill rate declined from 85.0 percent to 83.6 percent, leaving 899 positions unfilled; despite this decrease, the total number of applicants matching into the specialty increased compared with the prior year.
Not a good match day for primary care; all filled fewer positions this year than last.
We need more doctors; OECD (wealthy developed countries) average is 3.9 practicing physicians per 1,000 population; US has 2.7 (Germany 4.7, Italy 5.4, France 3.9).
Ugh.
