* Residency & Fellowships
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/about-ama/our-people/member-groups-sections/resident-fellow-section/rfs-resources/residency-vacancies-work-environment/find-residency-fellowship.page - The American Medical Student Association offers resources to fourth-year students including a guide to residency programs.
http://residencyandmedicaleducationguide.com/ - 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/about-ama/our-people/member-groups-sections/minority-affairs-section/transitioning-residency.page - The National Resident Matching Program conducts matches for residency and fellowship programs.
http://www.nrmp.org
- 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 provides "Handling Finances During Residency" web page.
https://students-residents.aamc.org/training-residency-fellowship/managing-your-medical-career/handling-finances-during-residency/ - The American Medical Student Association offers a loan consolidation program.
http://services.aamc.org/fed_loan_pub - 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
- 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's Women Physicians Section web site provides information on women physicians'
professional issues and women's health.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-people/member-groups-sections/women-physicians-section.page - 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://orwh.od.nih.gov/
- Visit the comprehensive list of associations within this Web site.
