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Career & Professional Development

The Office of Student Affairs’ Careers and Professional Development Services offers comprehensive support to prepare medical students throughout their four years at FIU Medicine. Recognizing the critical role of career guidance and professional development, the office helps students explore specialties, build key skills, and become compassionate, competitive residency applicants.

Medical students have access to a comprehensive set of services, including:

  • Individualized Career Advising Sessions
  • Professional Series Workshops
  • Career exploration tools and assessments (e.g., AAMC’s Careers in Medicine platform)
  • Career-guided workshops: Many of these workshops are recorded and available via CanvasMed – FIU Medicine Career Advising. Workshops include:
    • Writing a Medical CV
    • Specialty Exploration Panels
    • Personal Statement Development
    • Residency Preparedness (Town Hall Series)
    • Specialty-specific Advising
    • Mentorship and Career Advising Program, connecting students with mentors in their fields of interest

Personal Statement

Your personal statement is an integral part of a successful application. Unless a program’s faculty or residents know you personally through a rotation, your application – including personal statement – presents your entire professional persona to those who extend interview invitations. Competitive programs have hundreds of qualified applicants, so your personal statement must help you stand out.

Career in Medicine

Careers in Medicine is designed to help medical students choose a specialty and residency program, successfully land a residency position, and plan their physician career.

Specialities

There are over 120 specialties and subspecialties for you to choose from on the AAMC Careers in Medicine website. The information found will help you identify which specialty appeals to your interest as you begin your career exploration process. Learn about salaries, training and residency tracks, competitiveness, workforce, and more.

Career Assessments

 

  • Interests Assessments (MSPI)

    This assessment is geared towards Medical Students in their 1st and 2nd year of Medical School. The Medical Specialty Preference Inventory assessment measures your interests based on things you like to do, and evaluates those interest to produce two types of scores:

    1. Specialty choice probabilities for 16 major medical specialties
    2. Medical Interest Scales for 18 areas involving knowledge and information, services and procedures, and types of problems in medicine
  • Values (PVIPS)

    This assessment is geared for Medical Students in their 1st and 2nd year of Medical School. The Physician Values in Practice Scale assessment measures things that are important to you based on six core values: Autonomy, Management, Prestige, Service, Lifestyle, and Scholarly Pursuits. This assessment will use your results and compare them to various environments and activities in medical practice, which will then help you determine how you want to practice medicine.

  • Roadblocks (SIS)

    This assessment is recommended for 2nd and 3rd year students. The Specialty Indecision Scale assessment helps students figure out how to overcome concerns or problems they may have with specialty choice. The results of your assessment will help provide you with a personalized look at where you are within the decision making process.

  • Skills (PSI)

    This assessment is geared for Medical Students in their 1st and 2nd year of Medical School. The Physician Skills Inventory allows you to identify transferable skills which are developed capacities that, with practice, may be learned and mastered. There are three major transferable skill areas found to be critical for all physicians: psychomotor, problem solving, and counseling skills.

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