Question 1

How are the best Pediatric hospital medicine residency programs ranked?

Accepted Answer

MatchPath ranks programs by the MatchPath Program Score — a transparent, objective composite of the teaching hospital's CMS Overall Star Rating (quality), the program's size relative to other Pediatric hospital medicine programs (ACGME-approved positions), its teaching hospital's NIH research funding (where available), and its accreditation standing. It is not a reputation survey; the exact weights are published and every program shows the signals behind its score.

Question 2

What is the best Pediatric hospital medicine residency program?

Accepted Answer

By the MatchPath Program Score, McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University currently ranks first among Pediatric hospital medicine programs. The full ranked list above shows each program's score and the factors behind it, so you can see why.

Question 3

Is this an official residency ranking?

Accepted Answer

No. There is no official ACGME, NRMP, or government ranking of residency programs. The MatchPath Program Score is our own transparent composite of objective, public data (CMS hospital quality, ACGME positions and accreditation) — published so you can see exactly what drives each position. It reflects the teaching hospital's measured quality and the program's scale, not a subjective judgment of the training.

Question 4

Does a program's rank mean it's the right fit for me?

Accepted Answer

Not on its own. The score weighs objective signals every applicant can verify, but fit also depends on your specialty goals, location, IMG-friendliness, visa needs, and salary. Use the ranking as a starting shortlist, then compare programs side by side.

Question 5

How is this different from the Doximity or U.S. News residency rankings?

Accepted Answer

Reputation rankings like Doximity are built from surveys of physicians' opinions. The MatchPath Program Score uses no opinions — only objective, public data (CMS hospital quality, ACGME positions and accreditation), with the weights published and every input shown. You can audit exactly why a Pediatric hospital medicine program sits where it does.

Question 6

Which of these Pediatric hospital medicine programs are IMG-friendly?

Accepted Answer

The score itself doesn't factor in IMG acceptance — filter the Pediatric hospital medicine program list by "IMG-friendly" to rank by reported IMG acceptance rate, then check each program's IMG percentage, visa sponsorship, and Step 2 CK expectation. All of it is free to view.

#	Program	Location	CMS	Score
1	McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University	Chicago, IL	5	100
2	University of North Carolina Hospitals	Chapel Hill, NC	5	96
3	New York Presbyterian Hospital	New York, NY	5	96
4	Corewell Health – Grand Rapids/Michigan State University	Grand Rapids, MI	5	96
5	University of Colorado School of Medicine	Aurora, CO	5	96
6	University of California (San Diego) Medical Center	San Diego, CA	5	96
7	Stanford Health Care	Palo Alto, CA	5	96
8	University of California (San Francisco) School of Medicine	San Francisco, CA	5	96
9	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, MI	4	90
10	Emory University School of Medicine	Atlanta, GA	4	89
11	Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Inc	Wauwatosa, WI	4	86
12	Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium	Saint Louis, MO	4	86
13	Advocate Health Care	Park Ridge, IL	4	86
14	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Nashville, TN	4	85
15	Cleveland Clinic Foundation	Cleveland, OH	5	83
16	Inova Fairfax Hospital Campus	Falls Church, VA	5	80
17	Baylor College of Medicine	Houston, TX	3	79
18	University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston	Houston, TX	3	77
19	Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine	Charleston, SC	3	77
20	Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine	Bronx, NY	3	77
21	Yale-New Haven Hospital	New Haven, CT	3	77
22	University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics	Madison, WI	4	70
23	Virginia Commonwealth University Health System	Richmond, VA	4	70
24	Marshall University School of Medicine	Huntington, WV	2	68
25	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	New York, NY	3	68
26	University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria	Peoria, IL	2	68
27	Kaiser Permanente Northern California	Galveston, TX	2	68
28	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine	Little Rock, AR	2	68
29	Stony Brook Medicine	Stony Brook, NY	4	67
30	University of Florida College of Medicine	Gainesville, FL	4	67
31	University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine	Omaha, NE	3	62
32	UPMC Medical Education	Pittsburgh, PA	3	61
33	Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center	Cleveland, OH	3	61
34	University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine	San Antonio, TX	3	58
35	Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center	Winston Salem, NC	3	58
36	Orlando Health	Orlando, FL	3	58
37	University of California Davis Health	Sacramento, CA	3	58
38	University of Rochester Medicine	Rochester, NY	2	52
39	SUNY Upstate Medical University	Syracuse, NY	2	52
40	Indiana University School of Medicine	Indianapolis, IN	2	52
41	SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University	Brooklyn, NY	1	43
42	Westchester Medical Center	Valhalla, NY	1	42
43	SSM Health/Saint Louis University School of Medicine	Saint Louis, MO	1	39
44	UMass Chan - Baystate	Springfield, MA	1	39

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