Careers Guide

Careermed - choosing your speciality in medicine

Careermed is a new online guide to medical specialities produced by CETU (Clinical Education Training Unit) of Auckland District Health Board (ADHB). This website offers you a structured way of thinking about your options and your choice of specialty. You will gain some insights into who you are as a person and what you are looking for in a job or specialty. Go to www.careermed.co.nz

Published by the Hunter Postgraduate Medical Institute (Australia)

• Sponsored by UNITED Medical Protection.
• This publication brings together essential information which will assist students, early postgraduates and also practitioners with career choice in medicine.
• This booklet may be purchased on-line either as a hard copy (AU $35) or in pdf format( AU $24).
• Alternatively contact Anne Feletti on +612 49236173 or Anne.Feletti@newcastle.edu.au

Residency and Career Planning Guide for Medical Students in the United States

This American website that is designed to explore a range of careers in health, including medicine.

University of Virginia

This site has a FREE test that is designed to help medical students choose a medical specialty. You will be asked to rate your tendencies compared to the tendencies of physicians in each specialty. The higher your score for a given specialty, the more similar you are to the physicians in that specialty.

A general overview of specialties (American based)

Hosted by Student Doctor Network (America)

This is a guide for American doctors applying to enter specialist training. Sections of this guide discuss career-planning.