Transition to Residency Resources for Residency Programs

Learn about how the AAMC is leading dramatic improvements in the transition to residency.

The AAMC announced that Cortex, Thalamus’s best-in-class application screening and review software, will be a complimentary offering to all ERAS® programs beginning in July 2025.

An overview of the AAMC's guidance on using artificial intelligence in academic medicine, including opportunities to learn and network with colleagues and experts, access critical resources to guide the use of AI tools, and explore key collaborations.

Find upcoming and recorded webinars for medical school deans, faculty, and advisors; residency and fellowship applicants; program directors, coordinators, and other graduate medical education staff; and institutional leaders.

The AAMC’s ERAS® program supports 131 residency and fellowship specialties by providing data, training and resources, and opportunities to reach med students.

A collection of recorded webinars for programs that review updates to the ERAS system for the 2025 season.

This episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast covers the role of learners in building the future state of assessment; the importance of patient-focused, learner-centered, equity-based assessment; and new types of assessment data and AI tools.

Information about the 2025 MyERAS® application and how applicants can share more information about their experiences and career goals with residency and fellowship programs.

Find resources for program directors and faculty conducting interviews, including best practices and tips for virtual interviews.

A streamlined, standard approach to collecting program director assessments of “resident readiness” for entry to GME.

Five considerations for programs as they decide whether to use a virtual interview format.

In the ERAS 2024 season, the AAMC teams integrated new content into the MyERAS application to better facilitate holistic review and improve the application screening process.

A set of activities that all medical students should be able to perform upon entering residency, regardless of their future career specialty.

A webinar, hosted by AAMC and OPDA, that explains what holistic principles are, how they can help program directors, and how they can be incorporated into screening and selection processes.

Holistic Review refers to mission-aligned admissions or selection processes that consider a broad range of factors when reviewing applications.

A webinar about how 16 specialties decided to use program signals during the 2022-23 recruitment cycle.

Three toolkits (two new ones and one revised from its 2021 version) to help guide programs and learners as they progress through the medical education continuum.

Recommendations for the Medical Student Performance Evaluation that allows for a holistic approach to evaluating an applicant.

Data and reports providing a summary of the current analysis of the supplemental ERAS application for the operational pilot year.

A test of the feasibility of medical education and training that is based on the demonstration of defined outcomes rather than on time.

A national questionnaire administered by the AAMC that seeks to identify and address issues critical to the future of medical education and the well-being of medical students.