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Welcome to the Residency subreddit, a community of interns and residents who are just trying to make it through training! This is a subreddit specifically for interns and residents to get together and discuss issues concerning their training and medicine/surgery.

297k subscribers1,081 posts / mo in Sep 2026850 authors / mosince 2011

r/Residency has 297k members (+10% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,081 posts a month from 850 people. Top topics: Residency Advice and Challenges, Clinical Rotations & Residencies and Medical Residency and Career Paths.

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Size and growth

How r/Residency has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+10%in 12 months · +1.9% in 3 months · +0.4% in 1 month
Oct 2026296k
Growing296k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−18%vs Sep 2025 · −1.0% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.1k
QuieterPeaked at 1.9k in Mar 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

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Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Residency Advice and Challenges5.1%
  2. Clinical Rotations & Residencies2.5%
  3. Medical Residency and Career Paths1.1%
  4. Clinical Rotations0.9%
  5. Radiology Residency0.9%

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research