Total medical school enrollment has grown 52% since 1980. Applications spiked during COVID and have since declined.
Source: AAMC FACTS Chart 4
Despite growing applications, matriculation and graduation rates are essentially flat — the bottleneck is in seat capacity, not interest.
Source: AAMC FACTS Table 1
Students with DACA status applying to and enrolling in US medical schools. Numbers have always been small (~150 applicants/year peak) and have fallen sharply since policy uncertainty.
Source: AAMC FACTS Table A-25
AAMC tracks self-reported origin within the broad "Asian" category. Indian, Chinese, and Korean students dominate — Indian alone is over 1,000 male matriculants in a single year.
Source: AAMC FACTS Table A-12 · Note: This is "men only" because that's the column AAMC publishes by ethnic origin; the women side has the same shape.
Foreign physicians sponsored by Intealth (formerly ECFMG) on J-1 Exchange Visitor visas to participate in US residency and fellowship training. Up 76% over the past decade.
Source: Intealth Exchange Visitor Sponsor Program (EVSP) · 2025 calendar year totals
India and Canada together account for 38% of all J-1 physicians. Pakistan, Jordan, and Nepal round out the top 5.
Source: Intealth EVSP
New York alone hosts ~2,800 — more than the next two states combined. NY, MI, TX, PA, FL together host 42% of all J-1 physicians.
Source: Intealth EVSP
More than half of J-1 physicians enter Internal Medicine — they're a frontline workforce in primary care and underserved areas.
Source: Intealth EVSP
International Medical Graduates competing in the US residency Match, broken down by year. The match rate has stayed in a tight 59-62% band even as IMG participants grew 25%.
Source: NRMP Match2026 Infographic — IMG participants vs IMGs matched
Year-over-year match rate for International Medical Graduates. Stable around 60% — meaning about two in five IMG applicants do NOT secure a US residency slot.
Source: NRMP Match2026 Infographic
Three structural facts about US physician supply:
The medical immigration pathway is therefore very different from the STEM PhD pathway: tightly capped at the front (admissions), tightly capped in the middle (residency), and heavily reliant on foreign-born physicians (especially Indian and Pakistani) at the back end of the labor market.
data/medical/ but are PDF-only and not yet machine-parsed. They cover IMG Match outcomes, EVSP J-1 physician sponsorship by country/state/specialty, FAIMER international medical school growth, and NRMP residency match results.