FAQ: Medical & Health Care Education and Career Information

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Question: How do I find information on medical & health care education and careers?

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Answer: You can link to medical & health care education and career information from the following:

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• Sources for All Health Professions
• Medical School, Residency, and Fellowship Information
• Dental School, Residency, and Fellowship Information
• Pharmacy School, Residency, and Fellowship Information
• Nursing Information
• Allied Health Information
• Alternative Medicine Education and Career Information
• Veterinary School, Residency, and Fellowship Information

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Sources for All Health Professions

• NLM MedlinePlus Health Occupations
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthoccupations.html
  
  

• Databases: Subject List
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/psd/ref/dbsubject.html
  
  
  • Allied Health Careers
  • Alternative Medicine
  • Biographical Information
  • Dental Information
  • Health Professions
  • Health Services Research
  • Medical Meetings & Meeting Abstracts
  • Medicine & Surgery
  • Nursing
  • Nutrition & Food Science
  • Occupational Health
  • Psychology & Psychiatry
  • Rehabilitation
  • Social Work & Social Sciences
  • Space Medicine
  • Sports & Sportsmedicine
  • Toxicology & Environmental Health
  • Veterinary Medicine & Animal Welfare
  
  
  
• MEDLINE/PubMed for journal articles about medical education or medical careers. Search these terms: Education, Medical, Graduate; Education, Medical, Undergraduate; Internship and Residency; or Education, Nursing, at http://pubmed.gov/
  
  
• NLM DIRLINE for specialty organizations or associations that deal with your field of interest.
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/dirlinfs.html
  
  
• University and public libraries often have medical education and career information. You can contact the NLM National Network of Libraries of Medicine to find a medical library you can use
  http://nnlm.gov/members
  
  
• NIH Virtual Career Center, National Institutes of Health
  http://www.training.nih.gov/careers/careercenter/
  
  
• Career Voyages
  Partnership of the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education
  Viewing text or videos may require Adobe Acrobat Reader, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player
  http://www.careervoyages.gov/
  
  
• U.S. Department of Labor Career Guide to Industries: Health Services
  http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs035.htm
  
  
• U.S. Armed Forces Health Careers
  • Air Force Health Careers
    http://www.airforce.com/careers/healthcare/careers.php
    
    
  • Army Health Care
    https://www.goarmy.com/amedd/
    
    
  • Navy Health Care
    http://www.navy.com/careers/healthcare/
    
    
• School guidance counselors and career centers

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Medical School, Residency, and Fellowship Information

• Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Medical Schools
  http://www.aamc.org/medicalschools.htm
  
  
• The American Medical Association Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database (FREIDA) opportunities and statistics by medical specialty
  http://www.ama-assn.org/go/freida
  
  
• The Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates to enter residency or fellowship programs in the United States
  http://www.ecfmg.org
  
  
• The NIH Research and Training Opportunities
  http://www.training.nih.gov/student/index.asp
  
  

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Dental School, Residency and Fellowship Information

• The American Dental Education Association (ADEA)
  http://www.adea.org
  
  
• Careers in Dentistry: Be a Dentist, The American Dental Association (ADA)
  http://www.ada.org/public/careers/beadentist/index.asp
  
  

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Pharmacy School, Residency, and Fellowship Information

• American Association of Health- System Pharmacists (ASHP)
  http://www.ashp.org/s_ashp/index.asp
  
  List of Pharmacy Associations (State, National and International)
  http://www.ashp.org/s_ashp/cat2cn.asp?CID=4317&DID=7714
  
  
• American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP)
  http://www.aacp.org/
  
  
• National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP)
  http://www.nabp.net/
  
  

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Nursing

• The American Nurses Association career information
  http://www.nursingworld.org/nursecareer
  
  
• The American Association of Colleges of Nursing nursing careers
  http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/nurse_ed/career.htm
  
  
• Association of Schools of Allied Health Professionals links
  http://www.asahp.org/links.htm
  
  
• National Student Nurses Association Career Center
  http://www.nsna.org/career/ultimate_adventure.asp
  
  
• National League for Nursing Careers page
  http://www.nln.org/Careers/index.htm
  
  

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Allied Health Information

All Allied Health Careers

• Choosing a career (Allied Health Careers), American Medical Association
  http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/10481.html
  
  

Public Health

• American Public Health Association (APHA)
  http://www.apha.org
  
  
• Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH)
  http://www.asph.org/
  
  

Physical Therapy (PT)

• American Physical Therapy Association (APTA)
  http://www.apta.org/
  
  

Occupational Therapy (OT)

• American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA)
  http://www.aota.org/
  
  

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Alternative Medicine Education and Career Information

• The American Association of Naturopathic Medical Colleges (AANMC)
  http://www.aanmc.org
  
  
• The Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (CCAOM)
  http://www.ccaom.org
  
  

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Veterinary School, Residency and Fellowship Information

• The Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC)
  http://www.aavmc.org
  
  
• The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)
  http://www.avma.org
  
  

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Last updated: 01 October 2008
First published: 01 January 1998
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