Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs
Field of study · CIP 2020
Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs is one of the fields of study in the U.S. Department of Education's Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP). It contains 191 detailed programs and, through the official CIP–SOC crosswalk, connects to 22 occupations employing about 1,363,000 workers, with a median wage of $129,210. The crosswalk shows which jobs a field of study is related to — not a guarantee of entry.
What the occupations pay
Median annual wage across the occupations this field of study leads to, from BLS OEWS (national, cross-industry, May 2024). The middle range is the 25th–75th percentile of those occupation medians — it describes the field, not any one job or graduate.
| Median occupation wage | $129,210 |
| Middle range (p25–p75) | $103,118 – $216,685 |
| Occupations with wage data | 8 of 22 |
AI exposure of this field of study
Two published studies estimate how exposed each occupation is to today's AI. The OpenAI "GPTs are GPTs" study rates the share of an occupation's tasks a large language model (with tools) could speed up by half or more; averaged across the occupations this field of study leads to it is 38% — 37th percentile of all fields of study. The independent Felten/Raj/Seamans AI Occupational Exposure index averages 1.06 here.
Computed across the 21 of 22 occupations this field leads to that carry a published exposure score.
The most-exposed fields of study lead to knowledge, language and analytical work; the least-exposed lead to physical trades and hands-on production. Exposure measures where AI could assist tasks, not a prediction that these jobs will be automated; high exposure most often means augmentation. Bands are comparable across the cluster, education, job-zone and field-of-study tiers (same two studies, same percentile method).
Where this field of study leads
The largest occupations connected to this field by the CIP–SOC crosswalk, by employment. Wage and employment describe the occupation, not an individual.
| Occupation | Workers | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Physicians, All Other | 315,360 | — |
| Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary | 229,720 | $105,620 |
| Education Administrators, Postsecondary | 176,420 | $103,960 |
| Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists | 156,300 | $100,590 |
| Family Medicine Physicians | 107,950 | $238,380 |
| General Internal Medicine Physicians | 66,640 | $236,350 |
| Pediatricians, General | 42,960 | $210,130 |
| Anesthesiologists | 41,890 | — |
| Emergency Medicine Physicians | 33,680 | — |
| Radiologists | 26,290 | — |
| Psychiatrists | 24,800 | — |
| Surgeons, All Other | 24,080 | — |
| Obstetricians and Gynecologists | 19,900 | — |
| Cardiologists | 18,020 | — |
| Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric | 14,160 | — |
| Emergency Management Directors | 12,570 | $86,130 |
| Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric | 12,110 | — |
| Physicians, Pathologists | 11,800 | — |
| Dermatologists | 10,080 | — |
| Podiatrists | 9,520 | $152,800 |
| Neurologists | 7,700 | — |
| Pediatric Surgeons | 1,050 | — |
Programs in this field
A sample of the detailed CIP programs within this family. The full family contains 191 programs.
- 61.2603 Abdominal Radiology Fellowship Program
- 61.2402 Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program
- 61.1902 Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Program
- 61.2302 Aerospace Medicine Residency Program
- 61.0301 Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Program
- 61.0399 Allergy and Immunology Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other
- 61.1802 Anatomic Pathology Residency Program
- 61.0401 Anesthesiology Residency Program
- 61.0499 Anesthesiology Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other
- 61.1804 Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine Fellowship Program
- 61.0804 Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program
- 61.1805 Chemical Pathology Fellowship Program
- 61.1903 Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship Program
- 61.1102 Child Neurology Residency Program
- 61.2403 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program
- 61.0901 Clinical Biochemical Genetics Residency Program
- 61.0805 Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Program
- 61.0902 Clinical Genetics and Genomics Residency Program
- 61.1103 Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship Program
- 61.1803 Clinical Pathology Residency Program
- 61.2702 Colon and Rectal Surgery Residency Program
- 61.1801 Combined Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Residency Program
- 61.0101 Combined Medical Residency/Fellowship Program, General
- 61.0199 Combined Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other
- 61.2703 Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program
- 61.2704 Congenital Cardiac Surgery Fellowship Program
- 61.2404 Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program
- 61.0202 Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
- 61.1806 Cytopathology Fellowship Program
- 61.0501 Dermatology Residency Program
Sources for this page
Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.
- O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
- BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
- CIP-2020 2020 U.S. National Center for Education Statistics
- “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic
- AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans academic
Data compiled June 3, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.
Cite this page
Singulariki. "Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; CIP-2020 2020; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130; AI Occupational Exposure (AIOE) Felten, Raj & Seamans. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/programs/medical-residency-fellowship-programs
Singulariki. (2026). Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/programs/medical-residency-fellowship-programs
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