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Transition to Residency Resources for Medical Schools

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The AAMC is engaged in community-wide collaborations with other committed partners across medical education to improve the entire undergraduate medical education to graduate medical education (UME-GME) transition.

The AAMC is deeply committed to helping medical schools improve the transition to residency for their students, from the beginning of a student’s specialty research and selection process through the completion of residency and on to clinical practice. The AAMC offers programs and resources to support the well-being, training, professional development, and equitable treatment of all medical students and residents. 

The AAMC resources on this page can help medical schools as they guide their students through the transition to residency. The resources support the nine Undergraduate Medical Education-Graduate Medical Education Review Committee (UGRC) themes: 

  1. Collaboration and Continuous Quality Improvement
  2. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 
  3. Trustworthy Advising and Definitive Resources
  4. Outcome Framework and Assessment Processes
  5. Away Rotations 
  6. Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review
  7. Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes
  8. Educational Continuity and Resident Readiness
  9. Health and Wellness
Transition to Residency
AAMC Leads

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

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review 

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes 

Transition to Residency
Cortex Technology-Assisted Holistic Application Review Platform

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.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review 

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes 

Transition to Residency
Artificial Intelligence and Academic Medicine

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.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review 

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes 

Services
ERAS and Transition to Residency Webinars

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.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Trustworthy Advising and Definitive Resources

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes 

Services
ERAS 2025 Webinars for Advisors

A collection of recorded webinars for medical school advisors that review updates to the ERAS system and offer tips on how to optimize applicants' strategies.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Trustworthy Advising and Definitive Resources

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes 

ERAS for Institutions
ERAS Statistics

Current and historical data and survey results related to ERAS applicants and applications.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review 

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes 

Services
What You Need to Know about the 2026 ERAS® Application Season

Information about the 2026 MyERAS® application and how applicants can share more information about their experiences and career goals with residency and fellowship programs.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review 

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes 

Program Signaling for the 2025 MyERAS® Application Season

Information about how residency applicants and December cycle fellowship applicants who are applying to participating programs can use program signals to show their interest.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review 

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes 

Transition to Residency
Visiting Student Learning Opportunities™ (VSLO®) Infographic

A new resource that provides information to assist students and advisors guiding students through the process of developing individual away rotation strategies.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Trustworthy Advising and Definitive Resources 

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes 

Careers in Medicine®

A comprehensive career-planning program based on fit to help you make career decisions that leave you happy and satisfied as well as successfully land a residency position in your desired specialty.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Trustworthy Advising and Definitive Resources 

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review 

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes 

Apply Smart for Residency

A series of resources that explain the residency application process and ensure that an applicant and program are the right fit.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Trustworthy Advising and Definitive Resources 

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review 

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes

Services
Podcast: Putting Learners in the Driver’s Seat for the Next Era of Assessment and Precision Education

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.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Trustworthy Advising and Definitive Resources 

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review 

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes 

AAMC Guidance on Virtual and In-Person Interviews

Recommendations to help specialty and training programs consider their interviewing and recruiting options and to make evidenced-based decisions.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes

Report on Residents

An online collection of data tables that provide information on certain characteristics of residency applicants and residents, as well as information on post-residency professional activities.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review 

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes 

  • Educational Continuity and Resident Readiness 

Recommendations for the Medical Student Performance Evaluation

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

Supports UGRC Themes:

  • Outcome Framework and Assessment Processes 

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review 

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes

Supplemental ERAS Application Data and Reports

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

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review 

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes 

Graduation Questionnaire (GQ)

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.

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 

Professional Service
Holistic Review

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

Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Equitable, Mission-Driven Application Review

  • Optimization of Application, Interview, and Selection Processes

Curriculum Resources
Medical School Transition to Residency (TTR) Courses: Recent Trends and Current Status

This data snapshot showed that the prevalence of required TTR courses steadily increased among U.S. MD-granting schools over the past six years.

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Supports these UGRC Themes:

  • Educational Continuity and Resident Readiness
  • Collaboration and Continuous Quality Improvement
  • Outcome Framework and Assessment Processes