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Exploring Career Options
Starting Here, Starting Now
On the right are some relevant links to University Career Services and some pages. Go to the library and read up on some of the career options you have in medicine and science.
If you want a reading list, here is one from Syracuse University's Health Professions Advising Program.
Of course, there are online resources. Rather than provide an exhaustive list of off-campus websites, here are a few recommendations that serve as a nice starting point. Send Dr. Chuck an email if you have other suggestions.
- Explore Health Careers is an extremely thorough website. Investigate the diversity of opportunities, the characteristics needed to succeed (and whether you have them), the answers to financing and applying to these programs.
- Office of Science Education at NIH has a collection of testimonials in the LifeWorks section. With digests of various biomedical topics, the website also has a listing of various internship and educational opportunities.
- The NIH Exploring Career Options Website has various sections on careers in science, health care, or associated fields.
- Advice to the Next Generation.
- The MedShow website, featuring physicians training at Ohio State University.
- Science Careers is a website operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It includes many non-medical careers, but its repository of articles goes back to 1996. (Dr. Chuck has been an active forum participant.)
- Sloan Career Cornerstone Center talks about the various career paths in science, technology, engineering, medicine, and the health professions.
- Student Doctor Network is a volunteer-run website with advice from fellow students (undergraduate and medical) and practicing professionals (residents, faculty, advisors). Don't believe everything you read on their forums, but be aware that you are not alone.
- Careers in Biology from the American Institute of Biological Sciences outlines the many career paths biology students can take.
Whatever you decide, remember that you can change your mind and change your plans (and in the future, you may have to). Challenge your assumptions on why a career in the health professions is "your destiny" and understand how flexible the careers in this field are.
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Exploring Career Options
Myth: The Admissions Pipeline
Starting Here, Starting Now
Advice by Profession
List of Programs by Profession
Summer Opportunities
Volunteering and Shadowing
External Links
Exploring Career Options (NIH)
University Career Services
Exploring Grad/Prof (University Career Services)
Premedical Students Guide to Preparing for Medical Programs (University Career Services)
Medical Programs Internet Resources (University Career Services)
Nursing and Health Careers Resources (University Career Services)
Careers in Biology (American Institute of Biological Sciences)
Sloan Career Cornerstone Center (Sloan Foundation)
New Century College Life Science Track Information
Explore Health Careers
Office of Science Education at NIH
Science Careers
Student Doctor Network
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