Postgraduate Education Resources


The internet sites below were selected based upon the authority and/or reputation of the issuing body in addition to the quality and organization of the website.

• Catalog of Emergency Medicine Residencies The Catalog was developed by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine to provide detailed information on each of the 122 residency programs approved by the Residency Review Committee of Emergency Medicine.
  
  
• Directory of Residency and Fellowship Programs in Women's Health The Directory was developed to foster increased public and health care professional awareness about established programs in the expanding field of postgraduate training in women’s health.
  
  
• ERAS - Electronic Residency Application Service ERAS is a service which transmits residency applications, letters of recommendation, Dean's Letters, transcripts, and other supporting credentials from medical schools to residency program directors using the Internet. Maintained by the AAMC (American Association of Medical Colleges).
  
  
• FREIDA Online (Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database Access) FREIDA Online is a database containing information on approximately 7,500 graduate medical education programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and 200 combined specialty programs. A list of these programs is printed annually in the AMA's Graduate Medical Education Directory located at Crerar Reference, floor 1 R840.D591.Informally known as the "Green Book."

• Internships and Student Opportunities Created by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA).
  
  
• Internal Medicine Residency Database Maintained by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.
  
  
• Medical Schools of the U.S. and Canada Maintained by the AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges).
  
  
• National Resident Matching Program The Official Cooperative Plan for Appointments to Graduate Medical Education.
  
  
• Residency Brochure Database The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
  
  
• ResidencyFind Use the Residency Database to find the basic facts on any residency program in the country. You can also e-mail Program Directors, link to home pages, and read Program Statements and House Staff Profiles. The CareerMD site was featured in the September 1999 edition of MS JAMA (the Medical Student edition of Jama).
  
  
• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada: Residency Education. The College sets the criteria for the designation of a specialty; develops and defines the educational objectives and national standards for medical, laboratory and surgical specialties; accredits the specialty training programs and conducts examinations for certificates of qualification in medical, laboratory and surgical specialties and subspecialties.
  
  
• Scholarships, Fellowships & Postdoctoral Awards in Medical Fields Site covers the areas of: Medicine, Dentistry, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Pharmacology, Public Health, Nursing, Veterinary Science.
  
  
• Strolling through the Match: A Medical Students Guide. The what, where when, why, how of residency. Includes information on ERAS. by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
  • Fellowship Directory for Family Physicians This directory is produced by the American Academy of Family Physicians in cooperation with the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
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• Transitional Year Program Directory This on-line directory provides information on the vast majority of Transitional Year Residency programs. The information is collected by the Council of Transitional Year Program Directors. This directory is printed annually as "The Purple Book": a listing of transitional year programs.
  
  
• U.S.News & World Report: America's Best Graduate Schools
  • Graduate Programs in Health
  • Graduate Programs in Medicine
    
    

  How accurate are these rankings?

  • Read the report by the National Opinion Research Center commissioned by U.S. News and World Report in 1997.
  • Marguerite Clarke Boston College Citation: Clarke, M. (2002, March 20). Quantifying Quality: What can the U.S. News and World Report rankings tell us about the quality of higher education? Education Policy Analysis Archives, 10(16).

If you have any questions about resources or services available to the biomedical sciences community please contact Deb Werner, Biomedical Reference Librarian or Christa Modschiedler, Biomedical Bibliographer & Reference Librarian. You may also email the Crerar Reference Staff.

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