Year 1: Understanding Yourself
Self Assessment
To Get Started: Register for AAMC’s Careers in Medicine website.
If you are a current medical student, you can register with your AAMC user name and password, which is the same information you have used for other AAMC applications (e.g. AMCAS, MCAT, etc). If you are not a current medical student you may contact your CiM School Liaison to obtain access to this site.
Once registered, use their self-assessment tools under the “Understanding Yourself” tab.
Note: For easy access,
we've place essential links to CiM in the box to the right. Explore this
website thoroughly and often.
Learn about the specialty groups
here at UW and attend or join a student specialty interest group
Arrange preceptorships
through the UWSOM Curriculum office: 206.543.5562 and the Departmental preceptorship coordinators. Here's more information about Preceptorships for first and second year students.
Arrange shadowing experiences
in specialties you would like to learn more
about.
Review our Medical Specialty and Subspecialty list.
Our Specialty and Subspecialty list contains each medical specialty, the length of each residency training, available fellowships, and length of fellowship training. You can learn more detailed information about these specialties on the AAMC-CiM Specialties pages.
Read First Aid
along with your first year classes. This book provides a thorough
adjunct to what you are learning in class and together, they prepare you for
Step I Boards which you will take at the end of your second year.
Set up an appointment
with the Director of
Career Advising at UWSOM to discuss the four year process of career decision making, starting with self assessment.
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