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combined medical residency/fellowship programs

What combined medical residency/fellowship programs Majors Need to Know

Programs in combined medical residency/fellowship programs emphasize a specific mix of knowledge, skills, and abilities — derived from O*NET surveys of workers in occupations that combined medical residency/fellowship programs graduates commonly enter.

Knowledge Areas

Coursework in combined medical residency/fellowship programs emphasizes the following knowledge areas:

• Medicine and Dentistry — Importance 4.8 / 5; level 6.0 / 7.
• Biology — Importance 4.5 / 5; level 5.3 / 7.
• English Language — Importance 4.3 / 5; level 5.0 / 7.
• Psychology — Importance 4.0 / 5; level 5.3 / 7.
• Education and Training — Importance 4.0 / 5; level 5.1 / 7.

^{Importance is rated 1–5; level is 1–7. Source: ONET Online — weighted across related occupations.*}

Skills

Skills emphasized by a combined medical residency/fellowship programs program reflects the day-to-day work of related occupations:

• Reading Comprehension — Importance 4.2 / 5; level 5.0 / 7.
• Critical Thinking — Importance 4.2 / 5; level 4.6 / 7.
• Active Listening — Importance 4.1 / 5; level 4.5 / 7.
• Speaking — Importance 4.1 / 5; level 4.3 / 7.
• Judgment and Decision Making — Importance 4.1 / 5; level 4.3 / 7.

Abilities

Innate abilities most relevant to combined medical residency/fellowship programs careers — again drawn from O*NET surveys of related occupations:

• Oral Expression — Importance 4.4 / 5; level 5.0 / 7.
• Oral Comprehension — Importance 4.3 / 5; level 5.0 / 7.
• Inductive Reasoning — Importance 4.2 / 5; level 5.0 / 7.
• Written Comprehension — Importance 4.2 / 5; level 5.0 / 7.
• Problem Sensitivity — Importance 4.2 / 5; level 5.1 / 7.

Common Job Activities

Day-to-day, combined medical residency/fellowship programs graduates report doing:

Activity	Frequency / Importance
Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge	4.6 / 7
Making Decisions and Solving Problems	4.6 / 7
Assisting and Caring for Others	4.6 / 7
Getting Information	4.6 / 7
Documenting/Recording Information	4.5 / 7
Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships	4.4 / 7
Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates	4.4 / 7
Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events	4.3 / 7
Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others	4.3 / 7
Working with Computers	4.2 / 7

Technology Skills Used on the Job

Most frequently-cited tools used by combined medical residency/fellowship programs professionals:

Tool / Software	Category	In-Demand
Email software	Electronic mail software	—
Microsoft Excel	Spreadsheet software	✓
Microsoft Office software	Office suite software	✓
Microsoft Word	Word processing software	—
Web browser software	Internet browser software	—
Epic Systems	Medical software	✓
MEDITECH software	Medical software	—
eClinicalWorks EHR software	Medical software	—
Microsoft PowerPoint	Presentation software	—
Medical procedure coding software	Medical software	—
Microsoft Access	Data base user interface and query software	—
athenahealth athenaCollector	Medical software	—

^{Source: ONET Online technology skills, weighted across related occupations.*}

Sample Job Titles

Real job postings for combined medical residency/fellowship programs graduates include:

• Physician
• DO Physician (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Physician)
• MD (Medical Doctor)
• Hospitalist Physician
• Medical Doctor (MD)
• Doctor
• Pediatric Hospitalist Physician
• Pediatric Hospitalist
• Intensivist
• Trauma Doctor
• Urologist
• Primary Care Physician
• Oncologist
• Pulmonologist
• Hematologist

Education Typically Required

Across the occupations open to combined medical residency/fellowship programs graduates, the typical level of education actually held by current workers is distributed as:

Education Level	Share of Workers
Post-doctoral training	51.2%
Doctoral degree	36.1%
Master’s degree	6.4%
Bachelor’s degree	2.6%
First professional degree	2.1%
Associate’s degree (or other 2-year)	0.8%
Postsecondary certificate	0.4%
High school diploma or equivalent	0.2%
Some college courses	0.1%
Post-master’s certificate	0.1%

^{Source: ONET Online education / training / experience requirements.*}

Related Programs

You may also be interested in these closely related fields of study:

Program	CIP Code
Medical Residency Programs	61
Allergy and Immunology Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.03
Anesthesiology Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.04
Dermatology Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.05
Emergency Medicine Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.06
Family Medicine Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.07
Internal Medicine Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.08
Medical Genetics and Genomics Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.09
Medical Residency/Fellowship Programs, Other	61.99
MEDICAL RESIDENCY/FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS	61.00
Multiple-Pathway Medical Fellowship Programs	61.02
Neurological Surgery Residency/Fellowship Programs	61.10

References

The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students and international students. This number is then divided by the total number of students to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS)
• O*NET Online
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard

More about our data sources and methodologies.