CONTENTS

Contributors

Preface

Part 1. Planning Your Medical Career

  1. Choosing a Specialty: The Most Difficult Decision of Your Career

  2. The Specialization of Medicine

  3. Ten Factors to Consider in Specialty Selection

  4. Personality Assessment: Are You My Type?

  5. Finding the Perfect Specialty

  6. Special Considerations for Women

  7. Combined Residency Programs

  8. Options for the Undecided Medical Student

  9. Applying for Residency: An Overview of the Match Process

10. Love and Medicine: The Couples Match

11. Top Secret! The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Match

12. Your Medical Career Beyond Residency

Part 2. Specialty Profiles

13. Anesthesiology

Brian S. Freeman

14. Dermatology

Amy J. Derick

15. Emergency Medicine

Jeremy Graff

16. Family Medicine

Michael Mendoza and Zoe Gravitz

17. General Surgery

Ashish Raju

18. Internal Medicine

Jennifer Tong and Ian Tong

19. Interventional Radiology

Charles Hyman and Maggie Chung

20. Neurology

Tomasz Zabiega

21. Neurosurgery

Kiarash Shahlaie

22. Obstetrics and Gynecology

Kelly Oberia Elmore

23. Ophthalmology

Andrew Schwartz

24. Orthopedic Surgery

John C. Langland

25. Otolaryngology

Arjun Joshi and Neil Tanna

26. Pathology

Lisa Yerian and Ed Reineks

27. Pediatrics

Aaron J. Miller

28. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Vicki Anderson

29. Plastic Surgery

Gregory H. Borschel

30. Psychiatry

Lindsay Lebin and Kathleen Ang-Lee

31. Radiation Oncology

Stephanie E. Weiss

32. Radiology

Derek Fimmen

33. Urology

Jane Lewis and Benjamin Marsh

Index