Changing the Face of Medicine| Resources for Graduates, Residents, & Fellows


	Is a Medical Career for you? Undergraduate Education Medical School * Residency & Fellowships Practicing Medicine


	Once you complete medical school, you need to enter a residency program that is three to seven years long depending on the medical specialty you choose. After that, you may elect to gain one to three years of additional medical training if you want to become highly specialized.

The American Medical Association provides information about finding and transitioning to a residency.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/194.html
The American Medical Student Association offers resources to fourth-year students including a guide to residency programs.
http://www.amsa.org/resource/4yr_resources.cfm
The American Medical Association's Minority Affairs Consortium offers information for minority medical students looking for residency training programs.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/6672.html
The National Resident Matching Program conducts matches for residency and fellowship programs.
http://www.nrmp.org
The American Medical Association maintains the Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access (FREIDA) containing information on 7,500 accredited graduate medical education programs. The database also includes specialty trends and information such as work environment, salary, and work hours.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2997.html

The American Board of Medical Specialties provides information about the 24 approved medical specialty boards and requirements for the certification of medical specialists.
http://www.abms.org

The Association of American Medical Colleges Monetary Decisions for Medical Doctors provides specific information about how residents and early practitioners can manage their debt.
http://www.aamc.org/students/financing/md2/start.htm
The American Medical Student Association offers a loan consolidation program.
http://easnetwork.com/eas/associations/amsa.asp
The National Institutes of Health's Loan Repayment Programs (LRPs) provide up to $35,000 a year in educational loan repayment benefits to individuals with doctoral levels degrees who are conducting qualified research. The NIH offers two types of programs: intramural LRPs for researchers at the NIH and extramural LRPs for researchers at other non-profit research organizations.
http://www.lrp.nih.gov
Sallie Mae offers services for managing loans.
http://www.salliemae.com/manage/index.html

The American Medical Association lists online peer-reviewed scientific publications.
http://www.ama-assn.org/med_link/peer.htm
The National Library of Medicine's PubMed database provides online abstracts and some full articles from many scientific and medical journals.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

The American Medical Association lists women physician medical specialty groups.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/printcat/2699.html
The American Medical Association provides statistical information on women physicians such as the number of women enrolled in medical schools, women residents by specialty, women in medical school administrative positions, and female physicians by race/ethnicity.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/171.html
The National Institutes of Health's Office of Research on Women's Health promotes, stimulates, and supports efforts to improve the health of women through biomedical and behavioral research.
http://www4.od.nih.gov/orwh/
MomMD provides information and resources on the challenges and opportunities facing women in medicine.
http://www.mommd.com
The American Medical Association lists links to organizations concerned with women's health.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/209.html



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