Fellowship Programs - American Medical Association Looking for information about fellowships or the answer to what is a fellowship in medicine? For residents set on pursuing a fellowship or those still considering this possibility, there are ways to bolster credentials early and throughout residency training Find tips and advice from the AMA including top specialties, cost grant information and more Resident physicians interested in applying
Applying to fellowship? A program director’s tips on standing out How can a physician fellowship applicant catch a program director’s eye? The answer extends well beyond your CV Rachael Nicholson, MD, spent 13 years as the program director for the vascular surgery fellowship program at University of Iowa Health Care University of Iowa Health Care is a member
Considering fellowship? Check in on the latest applicant trends In total, 6,116 programs that submitted certified rank-order lists offered 14,169 fellowship positions, of which 11,853 (83 7%) were filled, and 74% of programs in the varying matches filled all positions On the applicant side, of the 14,034 active applicants who participated in at least one fellowship Match, 11,853 (84 5%) obtained positions
Thinking about fellowship? Ask yourself these 5 questions More resident physicians are pursuing fellowship each year, according to data from the National Resident Matching Program The decision to opt for additional training—in lieu of going straight into practice—is a personal one It is also one that residents should consider early on in their
Thinking about a fellowship? 5 things to consider Making the decision to pursue postgraduate training isn’t easy Get advice from current fellows about the factors you should weigh before you follow the fellowship path “A fellow is an interesting balance of independence and responsibility,” said Aaron Kithcart, MD, a cardiovascular disease fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Looking for a fellowship? Here’s how much you’ll spend to do it. At the outset of fellowship research, FREIDA™—a recently revamped comprehensive AMA tool that captures data on more than 11,000 residency and fellowship programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education—offers over 35 filters to sort programs by location, program type, application information, demographics, benefits, special tracks and more to help
Medical Fellowships - American Medical Association Sonia V Eden, MD, hopes her participation in the AMA Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship helps her patients and leads to lifelong collaborations Health Equity Jun 5, 2025 ·
Top 5 factors fellowship program directors look for in applicants Fifteen fellowship directors completed surveys on which they were asked to rank a list of 10 qualities from most to least important for judging the strength of a fellowship applicant Though pediatric otolaryngology is a narrow subspecialty field—the number of programs accepting applicants is fewer than three dozen—the criteria for ranking
Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship Fellows participate in a three-day, in-person learning intensive at the beginning of the fellowship and subsequently engage in monthly learning sessions with a multidisciplinary, multisectoral group of nationally-renowned experts, scholars, researchers and current and former policymakers across all levels of government
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