<p>With all of the focus of how to get into medical school and how to get a good match, what happens after residency?</p>
<p>If you don’t specialize further (do a fellowship), then how do you go about finding a job? Is there a national database? Do you send out resumes?</p>
<p>If you want to pursue a nontraditional path (e.g., work in biotech or policy), how do you go about it?</p>
<p>Sorry for my ignorance!</p>
<p>Page through the New England Journal of Medicine and you’ll find a whole section devoted to job advertisements. True for other medical journals as well. One also finds jobs thru networking, word of mouth, personal recommendations, resumes, professional organizations/professional conferences, headhunters/recruiting, cold inquiries… pretty much the same way that you’d find any other kind of job.</p>
<p>AFAIK, no national public database, though I’d bet there are some private ones through professional organizations.</p>
<p>For the more non-traditional paths, you’d need to get involved in either policy-making organizations or basic or translational clinical research during your med school days and continue working in the area of interest through residency and beyond, until a job opportunity presents itself. </p>
<p>Med students will have abundant opportunities to join various professional organizations/special interest groups which deal with policy as student members. You continue working with that organization until you develop an expertise and a job opening presents itself.</p>
<p>Biotech requires experience and expertise derived from research–which you will need to start doing probably as an undergrad, followed by enrollment in research-oriented medical school where you will continue doing basic and/or applied research, followed by research-oriented residency and fellowships. A PhD or MD/PhD is probably one of the most common routes into biotech.</p>