Implementing Virtual Career Counseling and Advising at a Major University

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...

CRIS: A Rule-Based Approach for Customized Academic Advising

This study presents a customized academic e-advising service by using rule-based technology to provide each individual learner for recommending courses for college students in Taiwan. Since academic advising for taking courses is mostly by advisors to assist students to achieve educational, career, and personal goals, which made it important in the higher education system. To enhance the counse...

Holland’s Theory and Implications for Academic Advising and Career Counseling

Faculty Members' Attitude toward Academic Advising and Counseling and their Viewpoints about Counseling Duties

Introduction: Advising and counseling students, a part of faculty members' duties, is a way for overcoming preventable problems and educational failure due to those problems. The aim of this study was to determine the attitude of faculty members of Kerman University of Medical Sciences toward advising and counseling students and their views about the duties of counselor faculty members. Method...

Evaluation of the Software to Help Advising Professors in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Background: One of the essential and inevitable principles in improving the education quality, particularly in universities, is the continuous assessment of students’ educational progress at different education levels. The  role of advisors and consulting tutors at universities are considered as one of the important interventions of the Ministry of Health for the purpose of guiding students' st...