Advising and Counseling
Our student advisory services begin during orientation and continue throughout all years of school. We encourage you to communicate with faculty advisors whenever questions or problems arise. The Office for Student Affairs can help facilitate advisors who will meet specific academic needs. Mentors for research projects and community projects offer personal, enthusiastic support. You can develop close relationships with faculty members during all four years of medical school and the deans are also available to discuss personal or academic issues. In addition, we offer strong support services for academic remediation, counseling, and health.
Career Counseling
Each clinical department has designated a specific individual to give you advice regarding that discipline. Among other things, this individual will provide career guidance when applying into residency. The department chairs support the residency application process, and are available to speak with you for a residency in their discipline.
We encourage you to meet with clinicians, scientists, and teachers to discuss career opportunities. Career interest groups in family practice, geriatrics, internal medicine, pediatrics, and other specialties offer students a spectrum of role models to choose from. Our extensive electives program is designed to introduce you to physicians and surgeons practicing within a variety of settings.
The Office for Student Affairs coordinates a comprehensive Career Planning Services (CPS) curriculum that covers an array of topics, from finding a mentor, to developing your CV, while department chairs and residency program advisors discuss career opportunities in their fields. As a third-year student, you attend a week-long course designed to allow further exploration of possible career choices and residency opportunities. In addition, CPS offers seminars that focus on interviewing for residency, matching into residency, and more.
Office of the Student Ombudsperson
The Office of Student Ombudsperson is available to any medical student to give counsel and feedback around academic, career, or personal concerns. They are also available to discuss informally any situation students have encountered around harassment, discrimination or other unfair treatment, interpersonal disputes in need of a neutral third party, uncertainty about or unfair application of a policy, or knowledge of misconduct. This Office is a confidential resource for students except in cases where legal action is needed (e.g., unlawful discrimination or harassment, assault/harm to student or patient). The Office serves as the student’s advocate in situations where the student will need to file a formal report with the Harassment Grievance Committee or the police.
There are two Medical Student Ombudspersons:
Other Services
Student Affairs is a central resource of information and partners closely with these campus organizations: