Specialty Selection & The Match

Medicare's Hospital Compare tool looks at quality of care metrics.

Prepared by Dartmouth med students, the report looks at different teaching hospitals' quality, safety, and more

Discover what the American College of Graduate Medical Education requires each program to provide for your education. Included here are minimum and maximum hours on duty and on call, minimum hours of study, and minimum hours away from it all.

This section of the AMA was created "to educate residents about issues concerning graduate medical education and national health policies." There are about 35,000 members, making it the largest organization for residents. This site offers information about the organization, major issues facing residents, and access to FREIDA.

This site is aimed primarily at U.S. citizens who have graduated from foreign medical schools. However, there is information useful to non-U.S. citizens and any medical school graduate wanting to practice in the United States. This site includes application information, residency requirements, contacts, and useful links.

A residency directory from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

FREIDA™ is a free to use application that allows you to search for a residency or fellowship from more than 13,000 programs - all accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). AMA members can access additional content beyond what is available open-access.

ACP student members only - information on all internal medicine, medicine-pediatric, and other combined programs in the United States and Canada.

Find out the latest discussions about specialties and residency programs.

In case you match and change your mind!

The San Francisco Matching Program is the coordinator for early subspecialty Matches (Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, Neurology, Neurosurgery). Links to application when available, plus Match stats.

Complete list from AHME.

The American Urological Association coordinates the urology match. Schedule, tips, applicant forms, and more from the AUA.

US News and World Report, which has been ranking medical schools for years, now ranks the graduate medical education programs for eight specialties: family medicine, women's health, geriatrics, internal medicine, AIDS, drug/alcohol rehabilitation, rural care, and pediatrics.