Residency Program Pass Rates 2021 - 2023
This report contains information about the internal medicine certifying examination
performance of programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical
Education (ACGME). For each residency program listed in the following pages, the American
Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) reports the cumulative pass rate for the 2021 to 2023
certifying examinations in internal medicine.
What data are reported?
For each program, this report lists the number of candidates that took the examination and
the percent that passed.
Which residents are included in the calculation of a program's pass rate?
Candidates are included in the computation of a program pass rate if they meet four
conditions.
1. They are first takers of the 2021, 2022, or 2023 certifying examinations in internal
medicine (repeat takers are excluded).
2. They completed training in the year of or the year before the first attempt (i.e., a
candidate who took the 2023 certifying examination for the first time must have
completed training in 2022 or 2023).
3. The final year of training is in internal medicine or a combined training program such as
pediatrics and medicine.
4. Candidates must have received their satisfactory final evaluation of clinical competence
from the training program.
Which programs are included in this report?
Programs are included in this report only if they are currently accredited by the ACGME;
however, pass rates are reported only if a program has at least ten (10) residents who meet
the above criteria.
What are the limitations of the data?
Many factors influence a program’s pass rate. Some are directly attributable to the program
such as curriculum, faculty, and resident selection criteria. Others relate to examinees
and/or the examination and are beyond the control of the program. Examinee factors
include work habits during training and preparation for the examination, while examination
factors include the specific content sampled in any year's test.
Other limitations may also affect the precision of these data. First, programs with smaller
numbers of examinees will have less stable results so caution should be exercised in
interpreting the pass rates, especially for programs with fewer than 25 examinees. Second,
if significant changes in the program have occurred within the three-year period, pass rates
may not fully reflect these changes. Third, data are presented at the title program level as
listed in the ACGME Graduate Medical Education Directory and therefore may include
residents trained in affiliated hospitals/institutions.
These data can only be properly understood in the context of statistical explanations
provided above.