Assessing Your Career Path
Not long after beginning medical school, students begin the process of exploring and eventually deciding upon the area of medicine in which they would like to practice. The Academic and Career Advising Center (ACAC) can help guide students through this process with individual career assessment and counseling.
As early as the first year, counseling can help students begin examining and prioritizing their values, and start recognizing skills and interests.
The career advisors can provide students with information about self-assessment tools and/or personality inventories that can help to identify or clarify characteristics for a good fit in a specific area of medicine.
Finding a Career
Counselors can connect students with material on the Careers in Medicine (CiM) program developed by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). This program not only provides students with further self-assessment tools, but also describes the different areas of medicine in great detail on their website.
Additional Career Development Resources
Special Situations
Specialties & Program Research Resources
- ACGME Institution and Program Finder
- AAN - Step by Step Guide for Applying to a Neurology Residency Program
- ACR - American College of Radiology
- AMA FREIDA Interactive Database
- American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecologists
- American Psychiatric Association - Careers in Psychology
- American Society of Anesthesiologists Resident Component
- American Urological Association Residency Page
- Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology
- AAMC - Navigate Your Journey from Pre-Med through Residency
- AANS Neurosurgery Residency Information
- Ophthalmology Residency
- Orthopedic Surgery Residency Programs
- Pathology: A Career in Medicine
- Society of Academic Emergency Medicine: List of Emergency Medicine Residencies
- American College of Surgeons: So, You Want to Be a Surgeon
- Society of General Internal Medicine