Welcome to Careers in Medicine

Careers in Medicine at UTRGV School of Medicine is a special program designed by the AAMC to help you through the process of successfully selecting and matching in the residency of your choice! Medicine is an exciting, rewarding, and multifaceted field, as you will come to find out. We look forward to helping you navigate through medical school and bring your dream into reality.


Join the Careers In Medicine Program Today!








This program is designed to:

  • Assess your interests, values, personality, and skills to help you choose specialties that best fit your attributes
  • Learn details such and salary and lifestyle, prerequisites and length of training, competitiveness data, types of patients and procedures, and other characteristics of more than 120 specialties
  • Compare your qualifications, pinpoint your preferences for residency training, and compare programs
  • Position yourself to be more competitive to land a residency.


The Career Advising Portfolio helps track your progress through the careers in medicine program and will be helpful to your career advisor. (If having issues viewing portfolio PDF with browser, please right-click and download the file to your computer.)