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AAMC Careers in Medicine
Careers in Medicine
A
career planning program designed by the Association of American Medical
Colleges (AAMC) to help medical students identify personal characteristics and
preferences appropriate to individual medical specialties as well as suitable
residency programs.
Related Web Sites
The Pathway Program
http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDENT/CareerCounseling/intro.htm
The Pathway Evaluation Program for Medical Professionals is a career-planning program designed to help medical students make informed specialty decisions. To this end, the Specialty Profiles included in this program were revised in 2003 to provide students with current information about 42 specialties. Information is based on aggregate data compiled from surveys completed by 2,407 practicing physicians.
Self-Assessment Sample Results
Strolling Through the Match:
The Medical Student's Guide to Residency Selection.
http://www.aafp.org/x20259.xml
American
Academy of Family Physicians
Matthews-Fuller RA840 S77 2003
Vanderbilt's Careers in Medicine Program:
https://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/medschool/portal/cim/
Medical Specialty Aptitude
Test
http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/specialties/
This site, sponsored by the University of Virginia, is
designed to help medical students choose a medical specialty. You will be asked
to rate your interpersonal tendencies. These results are then compared to the
tendencies of physicians in each specialty. The higher your score for a given
specialty, the more similar you are to the physicians in that specialty. This
test should take approximately 15 minutes. See a sample of the results.
Fellowships and Residency Electronic
Interactive Database (FREIDA)
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2997.html
American
Medical Association FREIDA Online is a database of approximately 7,800 graduate
medical education programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate
Medical Education, as well as over 200 combined specialty programs. Besides
searching for specialty and subspecialty programs, it is also searchable by
training institutions, medical schools, aggregate training statistics, and
workforce information on recent graduates.
Graduate Medical Education
Directory
Chicago, IL : American Medical Association 2004-2005
Dana Ref. R840 .D56
Matthews-Fuller Ref. R840 .D56
Available
online: http://intranet.hitchcock.org/GME/GreenBook.htm
Provides basic descriptive information on accredited graduate medical
education programs in the United States.
Social Medicine and Health Inequities
Brigham and Women's Hospital
http://www.brighamandwomens.org/socialmedicine/
The National Resident Matching
Program (NRMP)
http://www.nrmp.org/
Resident Web
http://residentweb.com/
This site is a
"one-stop resource" on the Web for all physicians-in-training. It contains a
myriad of information such as discussion groups, bits of wisdom, journal links
and job postings.
CareerMD.com
http://careermd.com/
CareerMD.com is the
Internet's most current, comprehensive and centralized source of information on
physician training and employment opportunities. Updated daily by program directors
and employers, CareerMD's searchable databases make it easy to locate, research and
compare opportunities in every state and every specialty.
Choosing a Medical Specialty
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7247.html
AMA information site providing links to relevant resources and personal stories
of physicians in various specialties.
Online Guide to Choosing a Surgical
Residency
http://www.facs.org/medicalstudents/welcome.html
American
College of Surgeons
So You Want to Be a Surgeon
http://www.facs.org/residencysearch/contents.html
American College of Surgeons
Resident and Fellows Section
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/15.html
American
Medical Association
"Roadmap to Residency: From Application to the Match
and Beyond," AAMC
http://enews.ama-assn.org/UM/T.asp?A40.574.3158.12.182332
Produced by the AAMC, with input from the AMA and other
organizations, the handbook includes a description of
candidacy requirements, factors involved in specialty
choice, and possible criteria for residency selection.
Books and Videos
How to Choose a Medical Specialty
Anita D. Taylor.
Imprint Philadelphia, Pa. : Saunders, c2003.
Edition 4th ed.
Dana Reserve R729.5.S6 T38 2003
Matthews-Fuller R729.5.S6 T38 2003
Embracing Your Practice: The Pfizer Guide to Careers for Physicians
Personal Copy.
Dana Reserve - 24 Hour Loan Period
Matthews-Fuller Reserve - 24 Hour Loan Period
Forged by the Knife: The Experience of
Surgical Residency from the Perspective of a Woman of Color
Greensboro, NC: Open Hand Publishing.
Matthews-Fuller RD28.A1 D39
1999
The Yale Guide to Careers in Medicine
and the Health Professions
Robert M. Donaldson.
Dana R690
.Y35 2003
Graduate Medical Education Directory
Companion
American Medical Association, c2002-03.
Chicago,
Ill. : AMA Press,
Matthews-Fuller Ref. R840 .D562
Provides
information for foreign-born medical graduates on the United States, fifth
pathway programs, US Armed Services graduate medical education programs, the
electronic residency application service, the National Resident Matching
Program as well as medical licensure information.
Iserson's Getting into a Residency:
A Guide for Medical Students
Kenneth V. Iserson.
Tucson, AZ :
Galen Press, c2000.
Edition 5th ed.
Matthews-Fuller RA972 .I74 2000
Opportunities in Physician
Careers
Jan Sugar-Webb ; revised by Julie Rigby.
VGM Career
Horizons, c2000.
Available online:
http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=23994
Life after Medical School:
Thirty-two Doctors Describe how They Shaped Their Medical Careers
Leonard Laster.
Norton, c1996.
Edition 1st ed.
Dana R729.5.S6 L53
1996
The Scalpel and the Silver Bear
Lori Arviso Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt.
New York : Bantam
Books, c1999.
Dana RD27.35.A45 A3 1999
Matthews-Fuller RD27.35.A45 A3
1999 c.2
The Soul of the Physician:
Doctors Speaking about Passion, Resilience, and Hope
Linda G.
Henry and James D. Henry.
AMA Press, 2002.
Matthews-Fuller R690 .H46
2002
Survivor MD [videorecording]
by Michael Barnes.
WGBH Educational Foundation, c2001.
2
videocassettes (180 min.)
Matthews-Fuller Library
For 14 years,
Nova cameras have followed the same group of aspiring doctors: from the early
days ... at Harvard Medical School ... [to] establishing a reputation in their
chosen medical specialties.
Making of a Doctor
[videorecording]
by Michael Barnes.
WGBH Educational Foundation,
c1995.
1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.)
Matthews-Fuller Library
Follows a group of Harvard medical students throughout the rigors and
rewards of their medical training: anatomy and analgesics, C-sections and
cardiac arrests, taking blood and giving physicals, broken bones and broken
marriages. Reveals the difficulty of critical academic training and the
intensity of the most grueling rite of passage of all, four years of
internship.
Ward Ethics : Dilemmas for Medical
Students and Doctors in Training
edited by Thomasine K. Kushner and
David C. Thomasma.
Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press,
2001.
Matthews-Fuller R724 .W33 2001
Physician Socioeconomic
Statistics
American Medical Association, Center for Health Policy
Research.
Dana Reference R729 .P487 2000-02
Matthews-Fuller
Ref. R729 .P487 2000-02
Provides statistical results about the current
medical practice environment with data collected from an annual survey of over
4000 physicians. Studies include managed, physician earnings trends, work
hours, patient volume, and practice costs. Data is broken out for eighteen
specialties and geographic areas.
AAMC Data Book
Association
of American Medical Colleges.
Dana Ref. R735.A1 A12 2002
Matthews-Fuller Ref. R735.A1 A12 2002
The Data Book is a collection of
statistics from many sources that serves as a convenient source of current and
historical data. Published annually, it contains over seventy tables on topics
that include medical student indebtedness, health care financing, physician
compensation, staffing characteristics in US hospitals, mean housestaff
stipends, and NRMP and graduate medical education data. A wealth of useful
information in an uncomplicated format.
Physician Characteristics and
Distribution in the U.S.
American Medical Association.
Dana Ref.
RA410.7.D47 2002-03
Matthews-Fuller Ref. RA410.7.D47 2002-03
Vital source of information on physician trends compiled
annually for over 650,000 physicians. The resource is separated into three
sections: trends, characteristics, and distribution. Data is provided on key
professional and individual characteristics of the physician population,
medical specialty, and the geographical location of
physicians.
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