Medical Student Advising: Informed Individualized Advice Is the Key

The medical student elective in Africa: advice from the field.

Student-Advising Recommendations from the Council of Residency Directors Student Advising Task Force

Residency training in emergency medicine (EM) is highly sought after by U.S. allopathic medical school seniors; recently there has been a marked increase in the number of applications per student, raising costs for students and programs. Disseminating accurate advising information to applicants and programs could reduce excessive applying. Advising students applying to EM is a critical role for...

The issue of ‘informed consent’ in medical student introductions

feel that they should be informed if the medical student is performing the procedure for the first time [3]. We believe that the continued use of ambiguous introductions by medical students restricts patient autonomy by withholding essential information, and this also erodes trust in the student/doctor-patient relationship. We propose that medical students approach the matter of clinical introd...

Career advising in family medicine: a theoretical framework for structuring the medical student/faculty advisor interview

BACKGROUND There are unique challenges to recruiting students into the specialty of family medicine within academic medical centers. METHODS At Virginia Commonwealth University, we developed an advising framework to help students address institutional and personal obstacles to choosing family medicine as a career. RESULTS The role of a faculty advisor is not to direct the student to a caree...

Enabling Student Success through Embedded Advising

This paper briefly outlines a proposal for increasing the capacity of schools and programs to better support the success and retention of Griffith students. This proposal should be understood within the context of the wider Griffith Retention Strategy (2012‐2014) which incorporates both curricular and co‐curricular strategies. The paper proposes the creation of a new role (Student Success Advis...