I've managed to compile a list of top residency programs in each specialty by browsing the residency forums for lists of top programs (I was also very curious about the evaluation of match lists). You can use this list as a means of seeing how frequently the school places its graduates in top programs. Of course, you shouldn't choose a medical school on this basis alone, because there are so many factors that go into a med student's choice of residency (grades, standardized test scores, recommendations, gestalt feeling during interviews, research experience, specialty preference, location, family, career goals, etc.). Thus, a paucity of "top" matches doesn't mean that the grads are barred from these programs--it could simply mean that the grads weren't interested in these programs for whatever reason. Also, the "strength" of a school's match list in any given year is more a function of the class composition--particularly the number of gunners in the class--than the institution itself. The fact of the matter is that top schools attract more gunnerish personalities (people who are obsessed with excellence and tend to overachieve), and the match lists reflect this class composition. Further, the number of gunners varies from one class to the next.
Here's the list:
Top Anesthesia Programs (according to academic anesthesiologists) :
Elite Programs: Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts General Hospital, UCSF, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Brigham and Women?s Hospital, Columbia, Duke, Mayo, Michigan, Upenn, Stanford, Wake Forest, University of Washington,
Other outstanding programs: Dartmouth, U of Florida, UCSD, Uchicago, Northwestern, UNC Chapel Hill, U Pitt, U Rochester, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt, Wash U, Yale, UCLA, Cornell, Beth Israel Deaconess, Medical College of Wisconsin, U Colorado, University of Iowa, UC Irvine
Top Dermatology Programs:
Elite Programs: NYU, Harvard, U Penn, Emory, UNC Chapel Hill, Michigan, Iowa, UT Southwestern, UCSF, Stanford, UCLA
Top Emergency Medicine Programs:
Elite programs: University of Cincinnati, Denver Health, Cook County, Highland, Jacobi, UCSD, Bellevue Hospital, Charity, UCLA Harbor, UPitt, Hennepin County Medical Center, Carolinas, Indiana
Regional Powerhouses: Brown, Boston University, U Michigan, Kings County, Emory, Vanderbilt, UNC Chapel Hill, UC Davis, Christiana, Ohio State, Maricopa, Detroit Receiving
Top General Surgery Programs:
Elite programs: MGH, Brigham and Women?s Hospital, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, WashU in St. Louis
Other outstanding places to train (a mix of nationally prominent programs and regional powerhouses): U Pittsburgh, UCSF, UT Southwestern, UCLA, U Penn, U Cincinnati, U Alabama-Birmingham, U Louisville, NYU, Vanderbilt, Emory, U Minnesota, U Rochester, Cornell, UNC-Chapel Hill, Northwestern, Mt. Sinai, U Wisconsisn, U Washington, Baylor University in Dallas, Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, Baylor College of Medicine
Top Internal Medicine:
U Michigan, U Chicago, Mass General, Duke, Brigham and Women?s, UCSF, U Washington, Emory, UCSD, UCLA, U Penn, WashU in St. Louis (Barnes-Jewish), UT Southwestern, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Vanderbilt, Cornell, Mayo, Northwestern, Stanford, NYU, Beth Israel Deaconess, Brown, U Maryland, U Iowa
*Baylor College of Medicine is a premier place to train if you?re at all interested in subspecializing in cardiology
Top Neurology:
Columbia, WashU, U Penn, UCSF, MGH, Yale, UCLA, UCSD, U Washington, Mayo, Cleveland Clinic, U Michigan, Duke, Emory
Top OB-Gyn:
Don?t really know.
Top Ophthalmology Programs:
Elite Programs: Wilmer Eye (Hopkins), Bascom Palmer (Miami), University of Iowa, Wills Eye Hospital, UCLA (Jules Stein), Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, University of Wisconsin, Duke, Wash U in St. Louis, U Michigan (Kellogg), NYU, UCSF, USC, Scheie Eye Institute (UPenn), Emory, New York Eye and Ear, Tufts, Baylor COM
Top Otorhinolaryngology:
Hopkins, U Pittsburgh, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Vanderbilt, UNC, Baylor, U Michigan, U Iowa, Wash U, UCLA, U Washington, Stanford
Top Neurosurgery:
Elite Programs: Brigham and Women?s Hospital, Columbia, University of Virginia, Barrow Neurological Institute in Arizona, University of Michigan, Mayo, USC, UCSF, U Florida, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts General Hospital
Top Orthopaedic Surgery:
I don?t know.
Top Pathology:
Brigham, MGH, U Washington, Stanford, Mayo, UCLA, Emory, Duke, UTSW, UCSF, Hopkins, U Michigan
Top Pediatrics:
Hopkins, CHOP, Boston Children?s, Cornell, Columbia, Yale, U Pittsburgh, Brown, U Virginia, UNC, Texas Children?s Hospital (Houston), UTSW, Vanderbilt, University of Alabama-Birmingham, DC Childrens, U Cincinnati, Children Memorial in Chicago, U of Chicago, U Michigan, Mayo, St. Louis Children?s, Denver, U Washington, Stanford, UCSF, UCLA, Children?s LA, Oakland, Children?s Orange County
Top Plastic Surgery:
NYU, Baylor, UTSW (and some other programs that I don't know about)
Top Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation:
Spaulding (Harvard), Tufts, Rusk (NYU), Cornell, Kessler, Hopkins, U Michigan, Northwestern, UC-Davis, U Washington, Mayo, Baylor
Top Psychiatry:
Mass Gen, Yale, U Pittsburgh, U Penn, Hopkins, Duke, Columbia, UNC, Michigan, UCSF, USC, UCLA
Top Radiation Oncology:
Elite: MD Anderson, Memorial Sloan-Kettering, U Penn, U Michigan, Mallinckrodt (WashU), UCSF, Mass Gen, Brigham and Women?s, Mayo, Stanford (and U Florida)
Other outstanding places to train: Thomas Jefferson, U Washington, Cleveland Clinic, William Beaumont, Medical College of Wisconsin, U Chicago, Duke, UNC, U Alabama-Birmingham, Loyola U in Chicago, University of Wisconsin, University of Iowa
Top Diagnostic Radiology:
Elite: UCSF, WashU, Penn, MGH, Umich, Hopkins, NYU, Brigham, Stanford, UCSD
Other outstanding places to train: UCLA, U Washington, Northwestern, Emory, UNC, Wake Forest, Cornell, Columbia, Beth Israel Deaconess, Mayo, U Iowa, U Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin
Urology:
U Michigan and some other places that I don't know about
Enjoy!
