FREIDA
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FREIDA Online, or Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database, is an online database of all graduate medical education programs in the United States that are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
, provided at no charge by the American Medical Association
. It can be used to search for programs by specialty in a particular state or geographic region as well as to determine specific aspects about any given program (number of first-year spots, salary, years of training, etc.). Optional search criteria, such as program size, whether the program is university hospital based, etc., can also be used to narrow searches. Aggregate statistics of programs in each specialty are available, as well as aggregate information about program graduates.
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is the body responsible for the accreditation for graduate medical training programs for medical doctors in the United States. It is a non-profit private council that evaluates and accredits medical residency and internship programs...
, provided at no charge by the American Medical Association
American Medical Association
The American Medical Association , founded in 1847 and incorporated in 1897, is the largest association of medical doctors and medical students in the United States.-Scope and operations:...
. It can be used to search for programs by specialty in a particular state or geographic region as well as to determine specific aspects about any given program (number of first-year spots, salary, years of training, etc.). Optional search criteria, such as program size, whether the program is university hospital based, etc., can also be used to narrow searches. Aggregate statistics of programs in each specialty are available, as well as aggregate information about program graduates.