The Specialty Selection Process

• What you need to know about the specialty selection process:
  • M1's and M2's
  • M3's and M4's
• How to get information about specialties:
• AAMC Careers in Medicine Specialty pages has user friendly information on over 100 specialty, subspecialty and fellowships with descriptions, training requirements, match data, workforce statistics, etc.
  Note that, in addition to public information on the site, extensive data is available only to students with confidential CiM accounts. Contact OSA Front Desk for your individual access code to create your CiM account.
• Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access FRIEDA (workforce information and statistics)
• National Residency Match Program NRMP Match Data
• Internship and Residency Information Site IRIS
• Graduate Medical Education Directory (the"green book") published annually by the AMA which lists over 8,000 accredited programs with contact information by specialty. Green books are available in OSA and at the reserve desk of the Health Sciences Library, where this information can also be found in CD format.
• Residency Duration by Specialty
• How to Research Residency Programs
  
• Specialties requiring Early Matches for residency programs (considered competitive specialties)
• Neurological Surgery San Francisco Match
• Neurology San Francisco Match
• Child Neurology San Francisco Match
• Ophthalmology San Francisco Match
• Plastic Surgery San Francisco Match
• Urology American Urological Association
• Early Match Stategies (pdf)
• Rank List Strategies
• Questions you should ask yourself