PART 010:58Residency Applications — Overwhelm
Understand the real challenges IMGs face.
Launch offer42% off$69 · 12 monthstill 30 Oct 2026
A Decision-Support System for International Medical Graduates
Know where you stand. Apply where you fit. Instantly.
Turn your Residency Profile into clearer U.S. residency decisions using verified published program information — the program's own wording, its source link and the date it was checked.
Free to start. No card needed to build your Profile, search every identified program or open your first three evidence readings.
Residency Buddy
Profile readyYour Profile
Medical school
USMLE results
Visa needs
U.S. experience
Program requirements
Published evidence available
Fellowship pathways
Research + USCE
2,428
residency programs identified and searchable across 6 specialties
1,202
of those have published requirement wording verified on record, with source and check date
5,503
fellowship programs on record, with 5,228 verified same-sponsor links to residency programs
935
standardised medical schools across 8 countries, so your own school is selected, not typed
Counts are read from the live database each time this page loads. Identified means the program exists in the universe and is searchable; verified means its own published wording has been read and recorded with a source and a check date. The two are never mixed.
Watch the story
See Residency Buddy in Action
A four-part walkthrough of the problem, the workflow and the extra decision support built around your application.
PART 010:58
PART 021:17Residency Buddy Simplifies It
See how RB turns complexity into clarity.
PART 030:49The Extra Punch
Signals, Fellowship Pathways, Research and USCE — more than just eligibility.
PART 040:35Why RB is HOT
Bring your application strategy together with Residency Buddy.
The problem
Why Residency Buddy
Applying as an international graduate means reading hundreds of program pages, each written differently, and still not knowing whether you are eligible.
Requirements sit on separate program websites, change without notice, and are often silent on the questions that decide your application.
Advice from forums and seniors is second-hand, out of date, or about somebody else's profile.
Applications, signals, rotations and fees cost real money, so a list built on guesswork is expensive.
Nobody tells you plainly which programs you clearly cannot apply to — and which simply have not published an answer.
What you get
One connected decision journey
Each part answers a question you actually have, and each one feeds the next.
1.Can I apply?
ProfileResidency Profile + published requirements
Enter your Step results, graduation timing, ECFMG status, visa need and U.S. experience once. Each program requirement is then compared with your own answers, with the published wording and source shown beside every reading.
2.Where should I apply?
Programs and My ListSearchable program universe + fit readings + My List
Search the program universe by specialty, name, city or state, open a fit reading where requirements are on record, and keep the programs you are serious about on your own list.
3.What comes after residency?
Fellowship PathwaysFellowship Pathways
See which fellowship programs exist under the same sponsoring institution as a residency program, so a later subspecialty plan can inform the list you build now.
4.How do I strengthen my application?
Research and USCEResearch + USCE
Review research positions and U.S. clinical experience openings collected from official institutional sources, each with its own source link and check date.
5.How should I use my signals?
Signal Portfolio AdvisorSignal Portfolio Advisor
Organise the limited programme signals you have across the list you built, for the specialties where signalling information is on record.
37
research opportunities on record (37 verified against an official source)
38
U.S. clinical experience openings on record, each with its own official source
5,228
verified same-sponsor fellowship links behind Fellowship Pathways
Research and USCE coverage is deliberately small and growing: a record is only added when an official institutional source states it.
How it works
Three steps, in your own words
- 1
Build your Residency Profile
Answer one set of plain questions about your own record: country and medical school, graduation year, Step results (including legacy numeric Step 1), ECFMG status, visa need, U.S. experience and letters.
- 2
Compare against published requirements
Each program requirement on record is read against your Profile and returns one of three plain outcomes: meets the published requirement, apparent conflict, or unable to assess. The program's own sentence and its source sit behind every reading.
- 3
Build your application list
Use the evidence, your preferences, fellowship context, research and USCE information to decide where to apply — and keep that reasoning in one place instead of a spreadsheet.
Example Internal Medicine Residency Program
Example City, NY · Internal Medicine
Illustrative example only. This is not a real program and none of the wording below is a real program's published requirement — it shows the shape of a record in Residency Buddy.
USMLE Step 2 CK
Meets published requirementPublished wording (example): “Applicants must have passed USMLE Step 2 CK before the rank order list is certified.”
Program eligibility page (source link) · wording last checked: 2026-08-12
From your Profile: Step 2 CK: passed, score recorded
Years since graduation
Apparent conflictPublished wording (example): “We consider applicants who graduated from medical school within the last three years.”
Program eligibility page (source link) · wording last checked: 2026-08-12
From your Profile: Graduated 2021
Visa sponsorship
Unable to assessPublished wording (example): “No published statement was found about the visa types this program sponsors.”
No source located yet · wording last checked: —
From your Profile: Needs J-1 sponsorship
Real program records carry their real source links and check dates inside the software. You can see the directory without an account on the public program directory.
Coverage
6 supported residency specialties
A specialty is only offered when its program universe and requirement records exist. Nothing else is presented as supported.
- Internal Medicine
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Family Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Neurology
Choosing another specialty in your Profile is allowed and honest: it is marked as not yet supported, and no analysis is invented for it.
Evidence
Published evidence, or an honest unknown
The value of Residency Buddy is what it refuses to claim.
Every requirement on record carries the program's published wording, the source it was read from and the date that wording was last checked.
Unknown stays unknown. When a program has published nothing on a question, Residency Buddy says so instead of guessing — missing information is never treated as a failure.
Identified and verified are never mixed. A program in the searchable universe with nothing read yet is labelled exactly that.
Where official sources genuinely disagree, the conflict is shown rather than resolved silently.
Residency Buddy is not a Match predictor. It produces no probability, no score of its own and no ranking of programs, and it guarantees no interview, no ranking and no Match outcome. Requirements can change at any time — confirm every requirement on the program's own website before applying.
Residency Buddy is research and organization software. It does not create, edit, format or generate a résumé, a CV, a personal statement or any other application document, and it has no document-writing feature of any kind.
Pricing
Free to judge it. One payment for a full year.
US$69 for a full year of access, available through 30 October 2026. US$119 for a full year after that date.
Free
US$0
- Build your full Residency Profile
- Browse and search every identified program in the universe
- Keep up to 10 programs on My List
- Three full compatibility and evidence readings
- Preview the Research and USCE sections
Full access — one year
US$69then US$119
Everything in Free, plus:
- Unlimited compatibility and evidence readings
- An unlimited application list
- Full Research and USCE records with sources and check dates
- Fellowship Pathways context on program records
- Signal Portfolio Advisor where signalling information is on record
One payment for one year. It is not a subscription: nothing renews automatically and no card is charged again when the year ends. Anyone who buys at the introductory price keeps the full year at that price.
Card payment is not open yet — payment provider approval is still in progress. You can create an account and use the free tier today; full-year access can be bought as soon as payment opens.
Get started
Start with your own record, not somebody else's advice
Build your Residency Profile, open a fit reading and see the published wording behind it. The free tier is enough to judge whether Residency Buddy is worth your money.