Application Process and Requirements

The following residency and fellowship programs will accept applications through ERAS (Electronic Residency Application Service) only:

• Anesthesiology
• Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship
• Dermatology
• Diagnostic Radiology
• Emergency Medicine
• Family Practice
• Gastroenterology Fellowship
• General Surgery
• Infectious Disease Fellowship
• Internal Medicine
• Medical Oncology Fellowship
• Nephrology
• Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Pathology
• Pediatrics
• Plastic Surgery
• Pulmonary Disease Critical Care Medicine
• Psychiatry, General
• Urology

Applications or specific instructions for applications to the following residency programs are available on the program's web site:

• Female Pelvic Medicine/Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship  
• Ophthalmology
• Pharmacy
• Podiatric Surgery

Application to the following Scott & White fellowship programs have specific requirements:

• Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
• Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship
• Cytopathology Fellowship
• Hematopathology Fellowship
• Interventional Cardiology Fellowship
• Medical Physics Fellowship
• Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship

Requirements

The following items are required with each application submitted for fellowship:

Completed, signed application form (Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• Transcript from medical school
• Dean's letter
• Three (3) letters of reference from faculty of medical school (or residency/fellowship experience, if applicable)
• Personal statement
• Curriculum Vitae/Resume (optional, but preferred)
• Record of other graduate medical experience, if applicable
• ECFMG certificate, if foreign medical graduate
• Recent Photograph (optional)

The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center College of Medicine - Scott & White accepts J-1 visas only.

International medical graduates must have completed the following 16 courses:

Basic Sciences/Sciences/Clerkship

_______ Biochemistry

_______ Biology/Histology ²

_______ Gross Anatomy ³

_______ Immunology/Microbiology ⁵

_______ Neuroscience ⁶

_______ Pathology

_______ Pharmacology

_______ Physiology

Clinical

_______ Family Medicine ¹

_______ Internal Medicine

_______ Introduction to Patient/Physical Examination ⁴

_______ Obstetrics/Gynecology

_______ Neurology

_______ Pediatrics

_______ Psychiatry

_______ Surgery

Legend:

1. Community Medicine or Emergency Medicine will satisfy this requirement.
2. Completion of both Biology and Histology taken separately will satisfy the requirement. A course titled (or encompassing) Microanatomy will satisfy the Histology requirement.
3. Human Anatomy or Morphology will satisfy this requirement.
4. Because this should be a component of each clinical clerkship, there is no need to find a course with this exact title.
5. Completion of both immunology and microbiology taken separately will satisfy the requirement.
6. Neuroanatomy that is included as apart of Anatomy (basic science) in combination with Neurology (clinical clerkship) satisfies this requirement.
   1. Applicant must provide an explanation as to how the guidelines as to course content have been satisfied. Each page of an applicant's statement should carry the applicant's signature and a date.
   2. The applicant must request his/her medical school(s) to submit a statement directly to the program's education coordinator, verifying the applicant's explanation of how the applicant satisfied the guidelines as to course content.

Admission to the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center College of Medicine Graduate Medical Education program is granted without regard to race, religion, sex, creed or national origin.

All new Scott & White employees, house staff and senior medical staff are required to undergo a mandatory substance abuse test as a condition of employment.

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