Neurodevelopmental Disabilities — Specialty Profile

Exploratory, not prescriptive. This profile blends hard data (pay, match rates, burnout, demographics, each sourced and dated) with generalizations and synthesized opinion about culture and "who fits." It's here to help you get curious and go find out for yourself, not to tell you who to become. Numbers marked ⟳ verify change every year; check the linked source before you quote one. Last reviewed: 2026-08-04.

Also called: NDD, neurodevelopmental disabilities medicine, developmental neurology. A joint ABPN and ABP subspecialty reached either through a six-year residency entered from medical school or through a one-year fellowship after child neurology. Organ system: the developing brain, when it develops differently.

Subspecialty of Child Neurology and Pediatrics, certified jointly by ABPN and ABP.

The 30-second version

Neurodevelopmental disabilities is entered straight from medical school as a six-year residency rather than as a fellowship, and it is one of the smallest training programs in American medicine. The field cares for children with autism, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, genetic and metabolic syndromes, epilepsy in the context of developmental difference, and the medical complexity that accompanies all of them. Two other specialties see many of the same children. Child neurology approaches them as a neurologist and developmental-behavioral pediatrics approaches them through behavior, learning, and family systems. NDD is the route that keeps the full neurologic toolkit while making developmental disability the whole practice rather than a portion of it. The certificate is jointly held by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Pediatrics, which is a rare arrangement, and it has existed only since 1999. The trade at the center: the most specific training available for these children, in a field small enough that most physicians have never met someone who holds the certificate.

Quick dashboard (details and sources below)


Training after med school	6 years via the NDD residency, or child neurology (5) + 1 yr NDD fellowship
Total from college start	~14 years by either route
Training chain	Med school (4) → NDD residency (6), or → Child neurology (5) → 1-yr NDD fellowship → joint ABPN/ABP certificate
Competitiveness	Low. 11 positions offered nationally in the 2026 Match and 8 filled, and the parent fills poorly ⟳
Typical full-time pay	No survey line. Child neurology runs ~$290,000–$335,000; DBP ~$190,000–$230,000 ⟳
Pay vs. parent (child neurology)	At or below, since the practice sits toward the cognitive and developmental end ⟳
Lifestyle	Outpatient, clinic-dominant, long visits, minimal call ⟳
Burnout	No subspecialty figure, and its two parents split on Medscape 2024: neurology 44%, pediatrics 51%, against a 49% average. Child neurology has no row ⟳
% women	77.8% of NDD trainees (ACGME, AY2024-25); child neurology 64.9% of residents ⟳
DO / IMG accessibility	Good: child neurology filled 13.7% DO and 18.5% IMG in 2026, against 17.3% and 17.8% in 2025 ⟳

What they actually do

Autism and its medical companions are the largest part of the practice. Diagnosis, the genetic and metabolic workup, and then the long management of the conditions that travel with it: epilepsy, sleep disorder, gastrointestinal problems, feeding difficulty, and behavior that no medication reliably fixes.

Intellectual disability and global developmental delay bring the diagnostic question the field is built for. Why is this child developing differently, and does the answer change anything? Increasingly it does, because genetic diagnosis now sometimes leads to specific treatment, surveillance, or accurate recurrence counseling for the family.

Cerebral palsy is shared with pediatric rehabilitation medicine, and the NDD physician typically owns the neurologic and epilepsy side while rehabilitation owns tone and function.

Genetic and metabolic syndromes are a defining part of the caseload. Fragile X, Rett syndrome, Down syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, and the growing list of single-gene neurodevelopmental disorders that exome and genome sequencing have made diagnosable.

Epilepsy in the developmentally disabled child is a substantial share of the work and one of the clearest reasons the neurologic training matters. These are frequently the hardest epilepsies to control, in children who cannot describe their symptoms.

Developmental regression is the presentation that most requires this specialty. A child losing skills needs a neurologist who knows which metabolic, genetic, autoimmune, and epileptic causes to chase and in what order.

The rest of the practice: ADHD and learning differences in a medical context, neuromuscular disease, school and educational advocacy, transition to adult care, and coordination across a large team.

Representative work: autism diagnosis and medical management · global developmental delay and intellectual disability workup · neurogenetic and metabolic diagnosis, including exome and genome interpretation · epilepsy in developmentally disabled children · cerebral palsy neurologic management · developmental regression evaluation · Fragile X, Rett, Down syndrome, tuberous sclerosis and related conditions · sleep, feeding, and behavioral comorbidity · ADHD and learning differences · school and IEP advocacy · transition to adult care.¹

A day in the life: almost entirely outpatient, in long visits. New evaluations can take an hour or more and involve the family, prior school testing, and a physical examination that is largely developmental. Clinic runs alongside genetics, rehabilitation, psychology, and social work. There is a substantial documentation burden, much of it letters for schools, insurers, and disability services.

On call: minimal. Acute neurologic emergencies in these children reach child neurology or the emergency department.

The training path & time to completion

Two ACGME routes reach the same joint certificate.

The NDD residency, matched from medical school: 24 months of pediatrics, or 12 months of pediatrics plus 12 months of internal medicine, followed by 36 months of child neurology and 12 months of neurodevelopmental disabilities. Six years in total.²

The CN-NDD route: complete a child neurology residency, then a one-year neurodevelopmental disabilities fellowship.²

The certificate is jointly held by ABPN and the American Board of Pediatrics, established in 1999 with the first examination administered in 2001.²
Child neurology certification is a prerequisite. Applicants must hold ABPN certification in neurology with special qualification in child neurology before sitting the NDD examination.²
A dual-certification agreement exists. Under an arrangement between ABP and ABPN, completing at least two years of accredited general pediatrics alongside the training required for child neurology and NDD can satisfy the training requirements of both boards.²
Part-time completion is permitted. The final 48 months of the NDD track, and the final year of the CN-NDD track, may be completed at no less than half-time.²
The programs are very few, and the count is published. In the 2026 Main Residency Match, five programs offered seven PGY-1 positions, two programs offered two PGY-2 positions, and two programs offered two more to physicians already past medical school. Eleven positions in the country, of which eight filled.³ ⟳
Total from the start of college: about 14 years by either route.

Which route to take. The CN-NDD route is the more forgiving one and the one most people should consider first. It keeps child neurology certification and employability intact, defers the commitment until you have seen the work, and costs the same total time. Matching into a six-year NDD residency from medical school commits you to a very small field before you have practiced in it.

How competitive is it?

The parent is undersubscribed. Child neurology positions regularly go unfilled and the field is IMG- and DO-accessible.⁴ ⟳
NDD itself is smaller still. Eleven positions nationally in the 2026 Match across all three entry points, and eight filled. The seven PGY-1 seats were ranked by 27 applicants and five of them filled, which is what a field this small looks like: enough people rank it, and most of them rank something larger higher.³ ⟳
The neighboring subspecialty is also undersubscribed. Developmental-behavioral pediatrics filled at roughly 68% in 2026, which indicates that the demand problem is across the whole developmental-disability workforce rather than specific to NDD.⁵ ⟳
Clinical demand is large and growing. Autism diagnosis rates have risen substantially, genetic diagnosis has expanded what can be found, and waiting lists for developmental evaluation run months to years in much of the country.

The honest read. Availability is not the constraint at any step. The constraint is that very few medical students know this field exists, and those who do often choose child neurology or developmental-behavioral pediatrics instead, both of which have more programs and more jobs.

Board: joint ABPN and ABP subspecialty certification in neurodevelopmental disabilities, requiring prior child neurology certification.²

Compensation — the robust version

No compensation survey isolates neurodevelopmental disabilities, and the field is small enough that one is unlikely to appear.

The two anchors either side of it. Child neurology runs roughly $290,000–$335,000, with a median near $335,000 and a 90th percentile near $395,000.⁴ Developmental-behavioral pediatrics runs roughly $190,000–$230,000, and carries a lifetime-earnings gap of about $1.9 million against general private-practice pediatrics.⁵ ⟳

Where NDD sits between them. The practice is outpatient, cognitive, long-visit, and E&M-billed, with little procedural income. That is structurally closer to the DBP end of the range than to the child neurology end, and the reasonable inference is that NDD pays at or below child neurology rather than above it. A physician who also reads EEG or maintains a general child neurology panel will land higher, and many do exactly that for this reason.

The one structural advantage. Because the certificate requires child neurology first, an NDD physician is always employable as a child neurologist. That is a genuine floor under the career that developmental-behavioral pediatrics does not have, and it is one of the strongest practical arguments for this route over DBP.

Limited-data caveat: no MGMA, Doximity, or Medscape line for neurodevelopmental disabilities was located, and the positioning here is an inference from the two documented neighbors. Benchmark against child neurology in the same market and ask specifically what proportion of the job is general child neurology, because that fraction is what sets the salary. ⟳

Lifestyle

Outpatient and highly controllable, among the most predictable schedules in medicine.
Visits are long, which is a genuine luxury and also means the clinic day is slow to reschedule when it slips.
Call is minimal, unless you carry general child neurology sessions, in which case you inherit that call.
The documentation load is heavy, particularly letters for schools, insurers, and disability services.
The work is team-based, alongside genetics, psychology, rehabilitation, therapists, and social work.
Geographic flexibility is limited. The jobs are at children's hospitals and academic centers with developmental programs.
Waiting lists shape the practice. Demand exceeds capacity almost everywhere, which sets the pace and the pressure.

Lifestyle rating: 4.5/5. Outpatient, daytime, and low-call, with the deductions coming from paperwork and from the moral weight of a waiting list rather than from hours.

Wellbeing — the part to take seriously

No survey publishes an NDD-specific wellbeing figure, and the nearest anchors disagree, because this subspecialty has two parents. Its training is 24 months of pediatrics plus 36 months of child neurology, and on Medscape's 2024 report the two sit on opposite sides of the average: neurology at 44%, seventh-lowest of the twenty rows the report publishes, and pediatrics at 51%, fourth-highest, against a 49% all-physician figure. Child neurology has no row in either list. Quoting the neurology side alone would report the favorable half of a split. Commentary on child neurology cites figures above 80%, but that is commentary rather than a survey and should be read as such.⁴ ⟳

The waiting list is the field's characteristic moral injury. Families wait months or years for a developmental evaluation, and early intervention is the thing that most changes outcomes. Knowing that the delay itself is harmful, and being unable to fix it because there are too few clinicians, wears on people.

The diagnostic yield problem is a specific frustration. Even with modern genetic testing, a large share of children with developmental delay leave without a unifying diagnosis, and telling a family that the answer is that there is no answer yet is a routine and difficult conversation.

The families are the practice and they are exhausted. Parents of children with significant developmental disability carry an enormous load, often for decades, and the NDD physician is frequently the one clinician who sees the whole picture and gets told the truth about how the household is functioning.

The advocacy work is real, uncompensated, and consequential. The letter that gets a child the right educational placement changes their trajectory more than most prescriptions do, and it generates no revenue.

The counterweight is the diagnostic moment. Finding the gene, or recognizing a treatable metabolic disorder, or identifying an autoimmune encephalitis behind a regression, changes a family's life and occasionally a child's. It happens rarely enough to matter enormously when it does.

Who's in the field (demographics)

NDD appears separately in ACGME's trainee table and nowhere in workforce reporting, which is itself informative: the field is large enough to count in training and too small to count in practice. Inherit child neurology for everything the trainee table does not cover.

Women: 77.8% of NDD trainees in AY2024-25, well above the 49.5% women across all active residents and fellows. Child neurology is 64.9% of residents, also majority women, and about 56% of faculty.⁴ ⟳
DO: roughly 17% of 2025 child neurology matches.⁴ ⟳
IMG: roughly 18% of 2025 child neurology matches.⁴ ⟳
The neighboring field is comparably open, with developmental-behavioral pediatrics at roughly 21% DO and 24% IMG of matched fellows in 2026.⁵ ⟳
Underrepresented in medicine: no subspecialty figure. Autism and developmental disability are diagnosed later in Black and Hispanic children and in children whose families have less access, the diagnostic delay compounds because early intervention is the effective treatment, and a clinician who can navigate school systems on a family's behalf is doing something the disparity data says matters. ⟳

Culture, personality & the online stereotypes

Who gravitates here: child neurology residents who found that the developmental clinic was the part they looked forward to. The field draws people who are patient with slow change, comfortable with diagnostic uncertainty, willing to work through families and schools rather than only with patients, and interested in genetics. It is academic, small, and collegial by necessity. As always, plenty of people in the field do not fit any single mold.

The stereotypes. Community perception rather than fact, each with a kernel and an unfair edge:

"Nobody has heard of it." Substantially true and the field's biggest recruitment problem.
"It is child neurology with extra steps." Unfair, and it reflects a genuine overlap that the field has never resolved cleanly.
"Developmental-behavioral pediatrics with a neurology degree." The other half of the same criticism, from the other direction.
"You will spend more time on school letters than on medicine." Exaggerated and recognizable.

What people say online (synthesized and paraphrased, not quotes): across trainee and physician forums, NDD comes up rarely, and when it does the conversation is mostly people asking what it is. The dominant recurring theme is the comparison with child neurology and DBP, usually resolving toward advice to do child neurology and subspecialize afterward, because it preserves options. A second is the very small number of programs. A third is that people who do it describe the work warmly and the job market as thin but real. The tone is curious rather than opinionated, because most of the people in the thread have not met one.

Voices from the field. Paraphrased from published sources, with links to the originals:

ABPN records neurodevelopmental disabilities as a subspecialty certificate established jointly with the American Board of Pediatrics in 1999, first examined in 2001, requiring prior certification in neurology with special qualification in child neurology, and reachable through either a 24-month pediatrics plus 36-month child neurology plus 12-month NDD route or a child neurology residency followed by a one-year NDD fellowship.²
The American Board of Pediatrics describes a dual-certification agreement under which two years of accredited general pediatrics, combined with the training required for child neurology and NDD, can satisfy both boards' requirements.²

Why people choose it / why people leave

Why choose it: the most specific training that exists for children with developmental disability · a joint certificate from two boards, which is rare · child neurology certification as a permanent employment floor · genetics and diagnosis at the center of the work · an outpatient, low-call, highly controllable practice · long relationships with families · demand that far exceeds supply.

Why leave or avoid it: a very small field with few programs and thin job markets · pay at or below child neurology, and well below most subspecialties · substantial overlap with two better-known specialties · a large uncompensated advocacy and paperwork burden · waiting lists you cannot fix · a diagnostic yield that leaves many families without answers.

Best fit if: developmental disability is the population you want, not a portion of your panel · you like neurogenetics and diagnostic puzzles · you are comfortable with slow change and uncertain answers · you want to work through families and schools · a controllable outpatient schedule matters to you.

Not for you if: you want a well-defined field with obvious job listings · you need income above child neurology · diagnostic ambiguity would frustrate you · you want procedures or acute care.

The FLI angle — Neurodevelopmental disabilities for first-gen, low-income & immigrant students

Where it fits FLI realities well:

Every door in this chain is open. Child neurology regularly goes unfilled, at 6 of 211 positions in 2026 and 10 of 195 in 2025, and of the positions it did fill, 13.7% went to osteopathic graduates and 18.5% to international graduates in 2026, against 17.3% and 17.8% the year before. The DO share fell 3.6 points in one cycle on a base of 205 filled positions, which may be noise rather than a trend, so read the pair of years rather than either one. NDD after it is less competitive still.⁴ For a student facing closed doors elsewhere, this route is genuinely available.
PSLF fits well, because the jobs are at children's hospitals and academic centers.
The lifestyle is among the most sustainable in medicine, outpatient and low-call, which matters when supporting family.
The disparities in this field are stark and actionable. Autism and developmental disability are diagnosed later in Black and Hispanic children and in poorer families, and because early intervention is the treatment, the delay is the harm. A physician who knows how to move a family through a school district changes outcomes directly.

Risks to name honestly:

This is a small field and small fields are risky without a safety net. Few programs, few jobs, and a geography set by where children's hospitals are. The single best protection is the CN-NDD route, which leaves you a certified child neurologist regardless of how the NDD job market treats you. If you have no family cushion, take that route rather than the six-year residency.
The pay sits at the low end of medicine. Child neurology's $290,000–$335,000 is the ceiling here and developmental-behavioral pediatrics' $190,000–$230,000 shows how far the floor can drop for adjacent cognitive pediatric work.⁴⁵ Model the debt against the lower end, not the higher.
Fourteen years from the start of college is a long time on trainee pay, and the NDD residency route front-loads a commitment made before you have practiced.
Much of the most valuable work generates no revenue. School letters, insurance appeals, and care coordination are the parts that change lives and none of them bill.

Bottom line for FLI: open at every step, sustainable to practice, and pointed at children the system diagnoses late and serves badly. The financial ceiling is low by the standards of medicine and the field is small enough that job geography will be dictated to you. Enter through child neurology rather than the six-year residency, which keeps a genuinely employable credential underneath you while you find out whether this is the work you want.

Fun facts

It is entered directly from medical school as a six-year residency, which is unusual for a training program this small.²
The certificate is held jointly by two different boards, ABPN and ABP, which is an unusual arrangement in American medicine.²
It is young. The subspecialty was established in 1999 and first examined in 2001.²
Eleven positions were offered in the entire country in the 2026 Match, across three entry points, and eight of them filled. Five programs offered the seven that come straight out of medical school.³
You cannot hold the certificate without first being a certified child neurologist, so every NDD physician has a second, more marketable credential underneath.²
Three specialties see substantially the same children: child neurology, developmental-behavioral pediatrics, and this one. The corpus distinguishes them by tools rather than by patients.
Its closest neighbor is also undersubscribed. Developmental-behavioral pediatrics filled at roughly 68% in 2026, so the shortage runs across the whole developmental-disability workforce.⁵

Sources

Clinical scope. Composite of published US neurodevelopmental disabilities program descriptions, which consistently cover developmental delay, autism, genetic and metabolic conditions, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, neuromuscular disorders, learning differences, and complex behavioral and school-related needs, with longitudinal care as the organizing principle. Children's National Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Residency (https://www.childrensnational.org/for-healthcare-professionals/healthcare-education/graduate-medical-education/residencies-and-fellowships/neurodevelopmental-disabilities) and UF Health Jacksonville (http://ufhealthjax.org/specialties/neurodevelopmental-disabilities), accessed 2026. ↩
Certification and training pathways. American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities — a subspecialty certificate established jointly with the American Board of Pediatrics in 1999 with the first examination in 2001; the NDD track requires 24 months of pediatrics, or 12 months of pediatrics plus 12 months of internal medicine, followed by 36 months of child neurology and 12 months of neurodevelopmental disabilities; the CN-NDD track requires completion of child neurology residency followed by a one-year NDD fellowship; all training must be in ACGME-accredited programs; applicants must hold ABPN certification in neurology with special qualification in child neurology; the final 48 months of the NDD track and the final year of the CN-NDD track may be completed at no less than half-time. https://abpn.org/become-certified/taking-a-subspecialty-exam/neurodevelopmental-disabilities/ (accessed 2026). The dual-certification arrangement, under which at least two years of accredited general comprehensive pediatrics combined with the training required for child neurology and NDD satisfies both boards, is described by the American Board of Pediatrics at https://www.abp.org/pediatrics/pediatrics-neurology-or-neurodevelopmental-disabilities. ⟳ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³
Program and position counts. NRMP, Results and Data: 2026 Main Residency Match (May 2026). Neurodevelopmental disabilities appears in the Main Match rather than the fellowship match, in three separate tracks. Table 1A, PGY-1: 5 programs, 7 positions offered, 2 unfilled, 27 applicants, 5 matches, 71.4% filled. Table 1A, PGY-2: 2 programs, 2 positions offered, 1 unfilled, 16 applicants, 1 match, 50.0% filled. Table 1A, Physician (R) positions, which are reserved for applicants with prior graduate medical education: 2 programs, 2 positions, 0 unfilled, 3 applicants, 2 matches, 100% filled. Eleven positions offered in total and eight filled. Table 2 gives the applicant types behind the five PGY-1 matches: 2 US MD seniors, 1 US citizen graduate of an international medical school, and 2 non-US citizen international graduates. The other two tracks fill the same way, with 1 non-US IMG in the PGY-2 position and 2 in the Physician (R) positions, so across all eight filled positions in 2026 no osteopathic graduate matched into NDD. Table 3 gives the PGY-1 position trend: 7 in 2026, 7 in 2025, 6 in 2024, 6 in 2023, 5 in 2022. NRMP notes that applicants can rank and match to more than one specialty, so the applicant counts are applicant-specialty pairs rather than unique people, which is why 27 applicants and 5 filled positions sit in the same row. https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Main_Match_Results_and_Data-2026.pdf. Correction 2026-08-13: this profile previously stated that "a reliable current public count of programs and positions was not located," directed the reader to the ACGME directory or FREIDA, and repeated the absence in the Quick dashboard and in the competitiveness section. NRMP publishes the count annually, and it is cited above. Corrected 2026-08-17: the applicant-type read above was shifted one column left, turning the single U.S. citizen IMG into "1 DO graduate" and the two non-U.S. citizen IMGs into "2 US IMGs." Main Match Table 2 runs MD Senior, MD Grad, DO Senior, DO Grad, U.S. IMG, Non-U.S. IMG, Others, and its applicant-type columns sum to positions filled, which is the check that catches the shift. NDD matched no osteopathic graduate in 2026, in any of its three tracks. ⟳ ↩ ↩² ↩³
Child neurology figures. Typical comp ~$290k–$335k, with 10th percentile ~$260k, median ~$335k, and 90th percentile ~$395k; largely daytime clinic and inpatient blocks with phone-heavy call around ~45 hrs/week; and the match composition: see the child neurology profile on this site, and NRMP, Results and Data: 2026 Main Residency Match, May 2026, Table 2, https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Main_Match_Results_and_Data-2026.pdf. 2026: 211 positions offered, 205 filled, 6 unfilled; of the 205 filled, 28 (13.7%) went to osteopathic graduates and 38 (18.5%) to international graduates. 2025, from the prior edition: 195 offered, 185 filled, 10 unfilled; 32 (17.3%) DO and 33 (17.8%) IMG. Corrected 2026-08-17. The dashboard and the FLI section carried the 2025 pair while citing this note for the current cycle, and the DO figure has moved 3.6 points. Both cycles are now stated, because a single-cycle swing that large on 205 filled positions may be noise. Women in training: ACGME, Data Resource Book, Academic Year 2024-2025, Table C.21, https://www.acgme.org/globalassets/pfassets/publicationsbooks/2024-2025_acgme_databook_document.pdf, which puts child neurology residents at 64.9% women and neurodevelopmental disabilities trainees at 77.8%, against 49.5% across all active residents and fellows, all for academic year 2024-25. Correction 2026-08-13: this page previously said no NDD-specific figure existed and carried child neurology residents at ~60%, in the Quick dashboard and in Who's in the field. The ~56% of faculty figure has no source this site can point to and is left uncited rather than dressed up. Burnout: Medscape Physician Burnout & Depression Report 2024, n=9,226, fielded July–October 2023, paywalled and returning HTTP 402, so its rows reach this page through one relay that reprints them: Healthgrades Pro (https://resources.healthgrades.com/pro/the-most-and-least-burned-out-physicians-by-specialty), which publishes twenty of the report's twenty-six specialty rows. It puts neurology at 44%, inside its ten-lowest list, and pediatrics at 51%, inside its ten-highest, against an all-physician average of 49%. Child neurology appears in neither list. Advisory Board's write-up of the same report (https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2024/01/31/physician-burnout) agrees on the edition and the instrument and carries no specialty table. Corrected 2026-08-13: this page carried ~55%. Corrected 2026-08-17. Two things. This note claimed three independent relays and named two, one of which publishes no specialty figures. And the page reported only the neurology row, while NDD is a joint ABPN and ABP subspecialty whose training is 24 months of pediatrics plus 36 months of child neurology, so the pediatrics row at 51% belongs beside it. The "above 80%" child-neurology figures are commentary rather than survey data and are named as such. ⟳ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸
Developmental-behavioral pediatrics figures. Typical comp ~$190k–$230k with no clean DBP-specific survey median, the lifetime-earnings gap of roughly $1.9M against general private-practice pediatrics, the outpatient pattern with minimal call and high schedule control, and the 3-year fellowship entered after general pediatrics rather than through neurology: see the developmental-behavioral pediatrics profile on this site. Fill rate and matched-fellow composition: NRMP, Results and Data: Specialties Matching Service 2026 Appointment Year, February 2026, Tables 1A and 2, https://www.nrmp.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SMS_Results_and_Data_Report2026.pdf. Women among DBP fellows: ACGME, Data Resource Book, Academic Year 2024-2025, Table C.21, https://www.acgme.org/globalassets/pfassets/publicationsbooks/2024-2025_acgme_databook_document.pdf, at 86.0%, the second-highest of any fellowship in the book. ⟳ ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

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