The Office of Student Affairs offers a variety of career counseling opportunities designed to address the needs and concerns with regard to the following issues:
Careers in Medicine is a four phase course that is designed to assist you in understanding your options for choosing a specialty and selecting and applying to a residency program to meet your career objectives. Careers in Medicine can be used as both a self-managed course and/or combined with career/specialty guidance programs provided by your medical school.
Careers in Medicine uses a career development model that is widely accepted throughout higher education. In this model, career planning and development is a four stage process, that includes:
Self-assessment
Career exploration
Decision making
Implementation
Visit the new UTHSC Careers in Medicine website here at UT! The UTCOM Careers in Medicine Program is a student-led group that is sponsored by the College of Medicine's Office of Student Affairs. The focus of this group’s activities is this website, where you will find information about Specialty Interest Groups and their events, resources on campus, volunteer and employment opportunities as well as links to on-line sites for careers in medicine information.
For more information about Careers in Medicine sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), please visit the AAMC's Careers in Medicine (CiM) web site at:
The residency application process actually begins in April with the Strolling Through the Match (STTM) Workshop. As indicated above, this workshop is designed to introduce third year medical students to the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) and the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS), and provide insight into the various specialties. Students should follow the timeline below to ensure the smoothest process possible. Questions regarding residency and/or the residency application process should be directed to Debbey Hester in the Office of Student Affairs.
Application Timeline
Request registration materials for AUA Match (Urology): Spring-Mid December Note: Uses ERAS
Request registration materials for SFMatch: May Note: Otolaryngology and Neurology now uses ERAS
Begin requesting Letters of Recommendations: May Note: Provide letter writers with the UTHSC LOR Cover sheet for applications using ERAS
MSPE appointments: Mid July - Mid October
Applicant ERAS Electronic Tokens Issued: Early July
MyERAS Web site (limited functionality) opens: Mid July
NRPM On-line Applicant Registration begins: Mid August
ERAS Post Office Opens: September
CAS Application for SFMatch (target date): September
Strolling Through the Match is a half-day workshop held in the April and designed to orient junior medical students on the residency application process involving the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) and the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). STTM follows the "Career Day Workshop," a workshop which provides students with an opportunity to meet faculty and residents in various specialties concerning their career choices (i.e., competitiveness, credentials, etc.). By attending both workshops, students are better able to obtain a complete overview of the entire residency process from beginning to end. For more information regarding Strolling Through the Match or Career Day workshops, contact: Debbey Hester, 448-5531.
Review STTM slide presentations from May 1, 2009:
STTM Part 1: Preparing for the Futurer MSPE and LORs Preparing Your Credentials
STTM Part 2: Applying for Residency: NRMP and ERAS
CareerMD This online successor to Career Insights, MD offering users an array of powerful services and features free of charge, including:
ResidencyFind & FellowshipFind (search engines which provide detailed contact information for every residency program in the country)
Program Statements (on-line location where program directors publish extensive descriptions of their residency programs)
House Staff Profiles (current residents provide students with candid insider's perspectives of life at their programs)
For more information about CareerMD, please visit their website at:
http://www.careermd.com. To obtain user access information CareerMD online, contact Debbey Hester, (901) 448-5531.
FREIDA Online is a database with over 7,800 graduate medical education programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, as well as over 200 combined specialty programs.
Besides searching for specialty and subspecialty programs, you can also search for training institutions, medical schools, aggregate training statistics by specialty, and career plans of recent graduates.
Residency/Fellowship Training Program Search View information about residency and fellowship programs, provided by program directors and updated continuously, as well as information about affiliated teaching institutions.
Training Statistics Compare specialties on length of training, program size, number of faculty, work and education environment, and compensation.
Graduates' Career Plans Statistics Obtain information reported on the career plans of graduates from various specialties, as reported by their program directors.
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Visit the new UTHSC Careers in Medicine website here at UT! The UTCOM Careers in Medicine Program is a student-led group that is sponsored by the College of Medicine's Office of Student Affairs. The focus of this group’s activities is this website, where you will find information about Specialty Interest Groups and their events, resources on campus, volunteer and employment opportunities as well as links to on-line sites for careers in medicine information. 
