Is a Medical Career for you?
* Medical School
Once you are in medical school, you will be launched on a challenging and rewarding path. Learn now about elective opportunities in the fourth year, medical specialties, combined M.D./Ph.D. programs, research and training programs, and medically focused financial aid opportunities.
- The National Institutes of Health offers a clinical electives program for third and fourth-year medical and dental
students.
http://www.cc.nih.gov/training/students/clinical_electives.html - Fourth-year elective programs are offered in many medical schools and other institutions. The programs vary in focus, duration, location, etc. You can learn about the fourth-year electives by contacting each school for the programs it sponsors.
- The American Medical Association directs students to the large number of resources available to help students make
the right specialty choice, including books, journals, and links to medical specialty Web sites.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/medical-students/medical-students.page - The American Academy of Medicine has a career-planning program to help medical students choose a medical specialty and to select and
apply to a residency program.
http://www.aamc.org/students/cim/start.htm
- The American Association of Medical Colleges lists schools that offer combined M.D./Ph.D. degree programs.
These programs provide students the opportunity to earn both the M.D. and the Ph.D. in areas pertinent to medicine.
https://www.aamc.org/students/considering/exploring_medical/research/mdphd/109848/mdphd_resources.html - The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS) supports a combined
M.D./Ph.D. program called the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). MSTP provides training in basic and
clinical sciences to highly motivated students with outstanding research and academic potential. Students are
awarded tuition and stipend.
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Training/InstPredoc/PredocOverview-MSTP.htm
- The Clinical Research Training Program at the National Institutes of Health is a year-long program designed to
attract the most creative, research-oriented medical and dental students to NIH. Applicants must be currently enrolled in
medical or dental school and have completed, or be in the process of completing, one year of clinical rotations. Candidates
in M.D./Ph.D. programs are also eligible to apply.
http://www.cc.nih.gov/training/crtp/crtp.html - The Association of American Medical Colleges offers straightforward information about the cost of medical school and
the variety of ways to fund a medical education.
https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school/preparing-med-school/paying-medical-school/ - The American Medical Association provides information about financing medical education and includes a link to the
Medical Student Section Financial Aid Resource Guide.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-people/member-groups-sections/medical-student-section/opportunities/other-financial-aid-resources.page - The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Medical Fellows Program supports a year of full-time biomedical research
training for medical, dental, and veterinary students.
http://www.hhmi.org/grants/individuals/medfellows.html
- Aerospace Medical Association
http://www.asma.org - American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
http://www.aacap.org - American Academy of Family Physicians
http://www.aafp.org/ - American Academy of Neurology
http://www.aan.com - American Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org/ - American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
http://www.aapmr.org/ - American Association of Public Health Physicians
http://www.aaphp.org/ - American College of Emergency Physicians (through Emergency Medical Resident Association)
http://www.acep.org/ or http://www.emra.org/ - American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology
http://www.acog.org/ - American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
http://www.acoem.org/ - American College of Physicians- Internal Medicine
http://www.acponline.org/ - American College of Preventive Medicine
http://www.acpm.org/ - American Geriatrics Society
http://www.americangeriatrics.org/ - American Medical Student Association
http://www.amsa.org - American Medical Women's Association Student Membership
http://www.amwa-doc.org/page3-131/Membership - American Podiatric Medical Student's Association
http://www.apmsa.org - American Psychiatric Association
http://www.psych.org - American Society of Addiction Medicine
http://www.asam.org/ - American Society of Clinical Pathologists
http://www.ascp.org/ - American Thoracic Society
http://www.thoracic.org - Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association
http://www.apamsa.org/ - Association of American Medical Colleges
http://www.aamc.org/ - Association of Military Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons Student Program
http://www.amops.org/students.html - The Endocrine Society
http://www.endo-society.org/ - Latino Medical Student Association
http://www.lmsa.net/ - MomMD Medical Student Resources
http://www.mommd.com/medstudent.shtml - National Association of Residents and Interns
http://www.nari-assn.com/index.html - Radiological Society of North America
http://www.rsna.org - Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
http://www.scvir.org/ - Society of Critical Care Medicine
http://www.sccm.org/ - Society of Nuclear Medicine
http://www.snm.org/ - Student Doctor Network
http://studentdoctor.net/ - Student National Medical Association
http://www.snma.org/ - Student Osteopathic Medical Association
http://www.studentdo.com
