Is a Medical Career for you?
* Practicing Medicine
Your education doesn't stop once you become a doctor. Learn how doctors keep up with the innovations in the field through continuing education, how they pursue research, training and funding opportunities, and how they develop networks among peers, mentors, and other professionals.
- The American Medical Association provides information about a variety of continuing medical education programs.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/education-careers/continuing-medical-education.page - The American Medical Association's Medical licensure web site provides information on its publication that detail
licensing requirements, fees, renewals, conducing medical education requirements by states, etc.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/education-careers/becoming-physician/medical-licensure.page - The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) identifies, develops, and promotes standards for
continuing medical education for physicians. The ACCME and its recognized state medical societies accredit approximately
2,500 providers of continuing medical education.
http://www.accme.org/ - The Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions is a professional organization for continuing medical education providers.
http://www.acehp.org/ - The Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education is a professional organization for academic continuing medical
education providers.
http://www.sacme.org/
- The National Institutes of Health offers NIH postdoctoral research and training opportunities as well as current NIH
postdoctoral job openings.
http://www.training.nih.gov/postdoctoral/index.asp
- The National Institute of General Medical Sciences offers research funding, training, and career advancement opportunities,
as well as minority programs.
http://www.nigms.nih.gov/ - The National Cancer Institute provides extramural funding opportunities.
http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/funding.htm - The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases provides research funding opportunities.
http://www.niddk.nih.gov/fund/fund.htm - The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases provides funding opportunities.
http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/researchFunding/
- 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/ - The American Medical Association lists links to organizations concerned with women's health.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-ama/our-people/member-groups-sections/women-physicians-congress.page
- Visit the comprehensive list of associations within this Web site.
