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Upcoming CiM Workshop

Join us for the next CiM Workshop. Our fall session will be held September 29-30, 2009, in Washington, D.C., at the AAMC headquarters.

The sessions are interactive and focus on counseling skills, advising students on career development and decision-making, using the CiM Web site, and implementing the program. In addition to learning some valuable skills that can be used in career planning with students, participants are also provided with case study experiences and opportunities to exchange ideas with their fellow attendees. Seats are limited so register early. Meeting details and registration information are now available on the AAMC Meetings site.

CiM PDC a Great Success!

10 Years of Careers in Medicine: Fostering Innovation for the Future
June 15-16, 2009
Hilton Savannah DeSoto - Savannah, Ga.

Thanks for helping Careers in Medicine celebrate our 10th anniversary during our recent professional development conference. The conference was a great success! Over 80 of our colleagues from across the country came together to hear the latest on CiM implementation activities, to expand their understanding and depth of knowledge of career planning; to share research, ideas, and best practices; get people energized about Careers in Medicine; and identify barriers to implementing Careers in Medicine and explore ways of overcoming them. We've collected presentations and handout information for all of the sessions, which can be found on the AAMC Meetings site (Login required).

New Registration and Reporting Features Now Available on the CiM Web site

We are pleased to announce two new improvements to the Careers in Medicine Web site. The first improvement is to the registration procedures for U.S. allopathic students. U.S. allopathic students will now be able to register on the site using just their AAMC user name and password. This is the same login used for access to the MCAT, AMCAS, and other AAMC sites. If they no longer remember their information, there are tools they can use to look-up and/or reset their login. They will no longer need an access code if they register in this manner. There are some limitations, based on the loading of student data into the AAMC's Student Records System which are outlined in the Registration and Access Code Instructions. (PDF)

The second improvement is a new individual usage report available to Liaison, Liaison Support and selected Faculty/staff users. The report allows you to search for and view the CiM site usage of individual students at your institution. It is intended to help you track a student's progress through the CiM system and assist you in advising students on the assessments and tools that may be most useful for them to complete. The report allows you to search by different criteria including name, email, class year, login dates, and assessment type to look up a student. You can then view their usage of the site including the number of times they have logged in and which assessments they have completed. The report does not provide assessment results - those are confidential and are only accessible by the student.

You can also save a specific group of users to your user lists. For example, if you have a group of advisees, you can save them to a user list so you won't have to search for the individuals each time you want to review their progress. Faculty/staff users at your institution must be granted report access by the Liaison in order to view the individual usage reports. Instructions for granting report access, running reports, and creating user lists are available on the individual usage reports page. Login to the CiM Web site and click on the "Individual Usage Report" option under the "My CiM" menu to access the new reports.

Share Your Career Planning Resources with the Careers in Medicine Knowledge Base

Careers in Medicine staff are creating a knowledge base to share information and ideas about what schools are doing in their CiM programs. We envision the knowledge base as a clearinghouse for workshops, templates, program outlines, curricula, and other successful career planning resources.

To make this endeavor a reality, we need your help. We are soliciting contributions to the knowledge base that you are willing to share with your colleagues. Do you have an outline or description of your CiM program that might help a school who is just starting to implement the program? Do you have a workshop or course materials to share or booklets and handouts that other schools might find useful? Do you have an advising program that is working well? Share your information, tools, and resources through the CiM knowledge base.

To submit a resource to the knowledge base, please read and complete the submission form (Word), then email the form and an electronic version of your material to careersinmedicine@aamc.org. If you plan to submit several items, please complete a separate form for each resource you submit. Only electronic versions of your resources will be accepted.

Once we begin receiving submissions and see what types of resources we are getting, we will begin organizing, categorizing, loading them on the advisor Web site for everyone to peruse. We are planning to eventually create a Careers in Medicine version of MedEdPORTAL. MedEdPORTAL is an online publication that offers peer review to help faculty publish and share educational resources. Because it will be over a year until we have the resources to build a CiM version, a knowledge base on the advisor site is the best temporary solution. We do encourage you to submit any educational resources that you feel may be peer-reviewable to MedEdPORTAL. You can get more information on publishing your resources on the MedEdPORTAL site. If you have any questions, please contact Jeanette Calli at 202-862-6270 or careersinmedicine@aamc.org.

 

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