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Your education doesn't stop once you become a doctor. Learn how doctors keep up with the innovations in the field through continuing education, how they pursue research, training and funding opportunities, and how they develop networks among peers, mentors, and other professionals.

Continuing Medical Education

  • The American Medical Association provides information about a variety of continuing medical education programs.
    http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2797.html
  • The American Medical Association's Medical licensure web site provides information on its publication that detail licensing requirements, fees, renewals, conducing medical education requirements by states, etc.
    http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2543.html
  • The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) identifies, develops, and promotes standards for continuing medical education for physicians. The ACCME and its recognized state medical societies accredit approximately 2,500 providers of continuing medical education.
    http://www.accme.org/
  • The Alliance for Continuing Medical Education is a professional organization for continuing medical education providers.
    http://www.acme-assn.org/
  • The Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education is a professional organization for academic continuing medical education providers.
    http://www.sacme.org/
  • The National Institutes of Health has many research and career training opportunities including continuing medical education programs.
    http://www.training.nih.gov/index.asp

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Women and Medicine

  • The American Medical Association's Women Physicians Congress web site provides information on women physicians' professional issues and women's health.
    http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/18.html
  • The American Medical Association provides statistical information on women physicians such as the number of women enrolled in medical schools, women residents by specialty, women in medical school administrative positions, and female physicians by race/ethnicity.
    http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/171.html
  • The National Institutes of Health's Office of Research on Women's Health promotes, stimulates, and supports efforts to improve the health of women through biomedical and behavioral research.
    http://www4.od.nih.gov/orwh/
  • MomMD provides information and resources on the challenges and opportunities facing women in medicine.
    http://www.mommd.com
  • The American Medical Association lists links to organizations concerned with women's health.
    http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/209.html

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