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Careers in Medicine Annual Meeting Program
Saturday, November 1
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11:00 - 12:30p
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Careers in Medicine Update
Join Careers in Medicine staff to learn about our newest
tool, the Residency Preference Exercise. Get updates on the Careers
in Medicine program and other new tools being planned to assist
you providing career planning services to your students.
Speakers:
George V. Richard, Ph.D.
Association of American Medical Colleges
Jeanette L. Calli, M.S.
Association of American Medical Colleges
Carissa Englert, M.S.
Association of American Medical Colleges
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Convention Center - 006A
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Tuesday, November 4
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10:30 - 12:00p
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Careers in Academic Medicine: The Current State of
Faculty Career Tracks at U.S. Medical Schools
This session will describe the current state of faculty
career tracks available at U.S. Medical Schools. Utilizing AAMC
data, current literature on careers in academic medicine, and institutional
policies gathered from faculty handbooks, the presenters will outline
the variety and types of career tracks currently offered and the
promotion and tenure status of these tracks. The session will provide
a more complete picture of academic medical careers for administrators,
faculty, and students interested in the topic.
Speakers:
George V. Richard, Ph.D.
Association of American Medical Colleges
Michelle Sullivan
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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Convention Center - 006B
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Other Sessions of Interest
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Monday, November 3
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3:00 - 4:30p
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GEA/GSA Small Group Discussion
Sustaining and Improving Your Career Advising Program: Maximizing
Outcomes with Minimal Resources
Description of Topic and Rationale: Career advising
has become an integral part of medical student programming, and
an essential function of many offices of student affairs and student
services at all medical schools. Given the changing demographics
of medical students, as well as the notable predictions for the
future physician workforce, we must continue to support students
in their quest to select the specialty and career path beyond medical
school graduation which optimally "fits" their aspirations and professional
goals. Career advising has grown in past years to encompass much
more than a few meetings with an advising dean and student. Many
schools have created robust programs that begin early in the first
year, and extend longitudinally throughout all four years. Schools
across the country are also adapting, for their institutional use
and to varying degrees, elements of the AAMC Careers in Medicine
program.
While each school may approach career advising in some
unique way, there are themes and issues that are pertinent to all.
Lack of fiscal support for programming, faculty development, or
for faculty effort in a role of advisor or mentor, has plagued many
institutions' attempts to improve their programs. Some institutions
have resorted to using innovative approaches to overcome this often
under supported endeavor. In this discussion group, discussants
will share examples of institutional successes with career advising
programs and practical approaches to overcoming obstacles in meeting
their students' needs. Participants will gain an appreciation for
ways in which medical school deans of students and administrators
can enhance their career advising curricula within their current
frameworks of institutional resource and support.
Discussants will elaborate on models that have included:
1. A variety of advisor: peer-to-peer student advising,
student interest groups, alumni advisors, community faculty, institutional
faculty invested in the process
2. Web-based resources
3. Student and faculty development programs
Moderator:
Hilit F. Mechaber, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Assistant Dean for Student Services
Director, Office of Professional Development and Career Guidance
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Discussants:
Dorothy Andriole M.D., F.A.C.S.
Assistant Dean for Medical Education
Washington University School of Medicine
Robert Hernandez, M.D.
Senior Associate Dean for Medical Student Administration
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Shalini T. Reddy, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Assistant Dean Of Student Programs
University Of Chicago Prtizker School of Medicine
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Convention Center - 209
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Tuesday, November 4
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1:00 - 2:30p
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GEA/GSA Small Group Discussion
Integrating Career Planning into the Formal Curriculum: Achieving
Dual Goals of Meeting Educational Objectives and Helping Students
Plan Their Future
Description of Topic and Rationale: Choosing
a medical specialty is one of the most important, yet daunting,
decisions students make during medical school. This challenge is
compounded by the lack of available time to thoroughly explore career
options and interests. It is difficult for students to carve out
time in the crowded preclinical curricula for structured career
planning activities and there is little elective time in the third
year for them to experience specialties outside their core clinical
clerkships. Since students are forced to make a career choice at
the start of their fourth year, the need to integrate career planning
activities effectively and efficiently into the formal curriculum
is more important than ever. The purpose of this Small Group Discussion
is to share ideas on how schools are implementing high yield career
planning tools and activities into the formal curriculum to achieve
the dual purpose of meeting educational goals and objectives and
helping students plan for the future.
Moderator:
Toni M. Ganzel, M.D., M.B.A.
Senior Associate Dean for Students
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Discussants:
Isaac "Ike" Wood, M.D.
Senior Associate Dean of Medical Education and Student Affairs
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Peggy Dupey, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Student Affairs
University of Nevada School of Medicine
Leon "Lee" Jones, M.D.
Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Professor of Psychiatry
University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
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Convention Center - 215
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3:00 - 4:30p
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GEA/GSA Small Group Discussion
Assisting Students in Developing Rational Residency Application
and Match Strategies
Description of Topic and Rationale: Applying
for residency training has become a progressively more complex process
in terms of addressing the mutual expectations of students and residency
programs. Further the increasing competitive for obtaining residency
positions in a number of specialties, and the "black box" nature
of the match are often-times highly anxiety provoking for students.
As a consequence, students look to their student or educational
affairs offices to provide increasingly detailed advice and guidance
on how best to navigate through this process. The discussion in
this session will address how best to provide such advice and guidance
to our students.
Moderator:
Michael D. Prislin, M.D.
Associate Dean, Student Affairs
University of California Irvine School of Medicine
Discussants:
Donna Elliott, M.D., Ed.D.
Associate Dean of Student Affairs
University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Neil Parker, M.D.
Senior Associate Dean of Admissions and Student/Resident Affairs
University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine
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Convention Center - 218
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3:00 - 4:30p
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GEA/GSA Small Group Discussion
Medical School Career Development Professionals: Why Aren't We Researching
and Writing about Our Best Practices?
Description of Topic and Rationale: In writing
a paper on medical student career development programs, two of this
proposal's authors have found very little evidence that schools
are publishing on their career development efforts. In the course
of our literature search, we found 10 potentially relevant articles;
however, once reviewed, we determined their foci were only tangentially
related the types of career programs and courses offered by medical
schools. There were no entries in MedEdPORTAL for courses or workshops
related to student career choice, and in CurrMIT, there were approximately
seven schools that had identified courses or workshops that were
not part of a discipline-specific course. This has lead us to question
why there is not more current literature on medial student career
development and the specific programs that work to facilitate their
career decisions. We are curious as to the reasons medical student
affairs practitioners are not publishing on this and perhaps other
topics around medical student and even resident and physician career
development.
We believe there are a myriad of answers and would like
to investigate these and related questions at a national level to
understand this void in the literature and to discover potential
solutions for closing the gap. By working with workshop participants
we would like to define the current state of research on medical
student career development, including the lack of models for implementing
career development activities. We would like to explore issues around
conducting research on this topic, find strategies to address the
issues, and offer networking to facilitate collaboration on investigating
best practices in programming for medical student career development
concerns.
Moderator:
Anita M. Navarro, M.Ed.
Assistant Professor Curriculum Consultant
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Discussants:
Nicole Borges, Ph.D.
Director of Medical Education Research
Wright State University Boonhoft School of Medicine
George Richard, Ph.D.
Careers in Medicine Program Director
Association of American Medical Colleges
Anita D. Taylor, M.A.Ed.
Director of Career Advising
Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine
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Convention Center - 007B
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