Specialty Resource Guides

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Post-Graduate Year 1 (PGY-1):

Specialties:

Guides include:

  • Specialty Liaisons
  • Related Groups including Student Interest Groups
  • Outside Resources
  • Specialty Interest Series Career Sessions
  • Residency Resource Guides
    • Overview of the Specialty
    • Lifestyle, demographics and earning potential
    • Level of competitiveness
    • Criteria programs consider
  • Match Data
    • HMS Specific Match Data
    • NRMP Main Residency Match Data and Reports
    • HMS Post-Match Survey Report
    • Match Newsletters

Alternative Medical Careers

Alternative Medicine Career Panel

Questions asked of panelists:

  1. What opportunities did you participate in and when that developed your interest in the alternative/additional career path you pursued?
  2. Discuss the timing and evolution of the alternative career path you pursued and do you have a suggestion on the best path to make such a career path successful?
  3. How do you balance your personal and professional life?

Panelist Information and Session Recordings

AAMC Resources

Options for medical careers other than clinical medicine

Administration, Research, Teaching, Military Medicine, Executive, Consulting and Non-clinical Careers

Fifth-year Option
Dual Degrees

Explore dual degree options

Office of Scholarly Engagement Information Sessions
  • Master of Public Health (MPH) Session – Learn about the MPH degree from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and how it fits into the MD curriculum.
  • Master of Public Policy (MPP) Session – Learn about the MPP degree at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and how it fits into the MD curriculum.
  • MD/MBA Session – Learn about the joint MD/MBA with HMS and Harvard Business School (HBS).