Guides: Specialty Selection and Residency Resource Guide: About Specialties

What Speciality is Right for Me?

These resources can help guide you through the process of making a sound specialty decision based on your personal skills and apptitudes, personality and life goals, among other factors.

Careers in Medicine Database
Note: you must log in to use the resources. Careers in Medicine is a program of the AAMC. It is a career planning program designed to help you choose a medical specialty and select and apply to a residency program. View all specialties
Pathway Evaluation Program
The Pathway Evaluation Program for Medical Professionals is a career-planning program designed to help medical students make informed specialty decisions. To this end, the Specialty Profiles included in this program were revised in 2003 to provide students with current information about 42 specialties. Information is based on aggregate data compiled from surveys completed by 2,407 practicing physicians.

Books in the Library

The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Medical Specialty by Dr. Brian Freeman
Access Note: W 90 F855u 2013
ISBN: 9780071790277
DML Georgetown Authors and Reading Room
How to Choose a Medical Specialty by Anita Taylor
ISBN: 9780997911503
Publication Date: 2016-09-30

Workforce Data

AAMC's Workforce Data and Reports
Includes reports on projections, state physician data, specialty data, diversity, and more.
Complexities of Phyisican Supply and Demand: Projections Through 2025
A report by the AAMC Center for Workforce Studies projects future supply and demand for physicians and concludes that a national shortage is likely driven by such factors as U.S. population growth, aging population and doctors, and increased physician visits, the demand for doctors will outstrip the supply through at least 2025. (PDF, 94 Pages - 741.2 KB)

Physician Characteristics and Distribution in the US by Smart, Derek R.
Access Note: Concurrent User(s): 1
ISBN: 9781622021031
Publication Date: 2015

AAMC Survey of Resident/Fellow Stipends and Benefits

Dahlgren Memorial Library

Specialty Selection and Residency Resource Guide

What Speciality is Right for Me?

Books in the Library

Workforce Data