Internal medicine residents continue to pursue subspecialty fellowships at increasing rates, rising from 61.0% in 2018 to 64.5% in 2025, with a peak of 68.0% in 2022. Cardiovascular disease (100.0%), hematology and oncology (99.5%) and gastroenterology (99.5%) had the highest fellowship fill rates in 2026, remaining among the most competitive internal medicine subspecialties. Since 2023, fellowship fill rates have declined sharply in low-supply fields directly relevant to an aging U.S. population. Between 2023 and 2026, geriatric medicine fell from 58.7% to 38.9%, infectious disease from 80.4% to 60.9% and hospice and palliative medicine from 97.2% to 79.5%.
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