Case Study

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Introduction to Careers in Medicine
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What is Careers in Medicine?

• A structured, four-phase/four-year career
  planning program
• Provides you with a strategy for
• Understanding yourself and specialties
• Choosing a specialty and residency program
• Making career and life decisions

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Careers in Medicine Model
Exploring Options
Understanding Yourself
Choosing a Specialty
Getting into Residency
Residency in Chosen Specialty
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Phase 1 Understanding Yourself

• Gathering information about self Who Am I?
• What past experiences influenced my career
  decisions?
• What do I like to do?
• What is important to me?
• What are my greatest strengths?
• What are my work environment preferences?

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Understanding Yourself Assessment Tools

• Personal Influences
• Interests
• Values
• Environmental Factors and Practice Needs
• Personality
• Skills
• Educational Experiences

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Putting It All TogetherThe Personal Profile

• A personal record of the results of your
  self-assessment activities
• Provides direction for you in the search for
  compatible specialties
• Confidential only you can access your personal
  profile

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Phase 2 Exploring Options

• Gathering information about career options
• What specialties exist, what do they do, what
  are the people like in that specialty?
• What practice settings are open to me?
• What non-traditional/non practitioner options are
  available?
• How do my personal characteristics match with the
  specialties I am exploring?

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Exploring Options Getting Started

• Conduct library research
• Conduct online research
• CiM Specialty Pages (112 specialties covered)
• AMA FREIDA
• Specialty Statistics Physician Workforce Data
• Specialty organizations
• Attend school-organized specialty seminars
  programs
• School programs (brown bag presentations, panels)
• Specialty Interest Groups

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Getting Personal Conducting In-depth Career
Exploration

• Narrow down to 3-4 options for in-depth research
• Get experience through clerkship and
  preceptorship opportunities
• Contact medical societies, alumni groups, and
  specialty associations
• Review publications journals/newsletters
• Explore student membership
• Conduct informational interviews

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Phase 3 Choosing a Specialty

• How do I go about weighing the information Ive
  learned about who I am and the knowledge Ive
  gained about career options?
• What are my best matches?
• How do I evaluate my decision?
• How do I select residencies that will fit my
  needs and preferences?

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Decisions, Decisions

• Specialty Choice
• Information about making good decisions
• Training path information
• Decision-making exercise
• Residency Programs
• Environmental Factors assessment
• Decision-making exercise

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Phase 4 Getting into Residency

• Planning 4th year
• Applying for Residency
• Interviewing
• The Match
• Moving on

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Careers in Medicine Components

• Student Guide
• Timeline
• Suggested Reading
• Advising
• Workshops and Programs
• Web Site www.aamc.org/careersinmedicine
• Individual access code required for registration
• Uses your AAMC Login after you register (same one
  as used for AMCAS, MCAT, ERAS, etc.)

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Careers in Medicine Web site

• www.aamc.org/careersinmedicine
• Self-assessment tools
• Career information on 112 specialties and
  subspecialties
• Specialty description personal characteristics
• Training and residency information
• Salary Workforce data
• Links to over 1000 specialty organizations,
  journals publications
• Decision-making exercises
• Specialty-choice and residency application
  information
• Timelines to help you stay on track through this
  process

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Upcoming Careers in Medicine Activities