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Three UNC Hospitals residency programs are in the top ten — family medicine and medicine/pediatrics are both ranked 2nd in the nation, and obstetrics & gynecology is ranked 3rd.


The latest Doximity Residency Navigator rankings have been released and UNC Hospitals has 12 residency programs ranked in the top 30.

The programs and their rankings are:

Anesthesiology, #26
Dermatology, #21
Family Medicine, #2
Internal Medicine, #30
Medicine/Pediatrics, #2
Obstetrics & Gynecology, #3
Otolaryngology, #15
Pathology (Anatomic & Clinical), #28
Pediatrics, #25
Psychiatry, #17
Radiation Oncology, #23
Urology, #14

The Residency Navigator program lists can be sorted (or ranked) based on several qualities, including reputation, research output and program size. The rankings shown above are sorted by reputation, indicating that these residency programs are among those that board-certified physicians hold in the highest regard for quality of clinical training.

The Doximity Residency Navigator is an interactive tool designed to help the medical students research and compare residency training programs nationwide based on their unique career interests. It combines objective data with 260,000 nominations, ratings and reviews from over 52,000 U.S. physicians.

Doximity is an online professional network for U.S. physicians launched in 2011. Physicians who are registered with Doximity are eligible to vote for the residency rankings and for U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals rankings.