Advisors and mentors play a very important role in guiding students toward making a specialty choice as well as providing guidance and advice while applying to residency.
Experts to Guide You
Choosing Your Path
Career Services Advisor
Meet with the career services advisor on an ongoing basis to:
- answer questions in the realm of career advancement and career choice
- get practical help with writing a CV or personal statement
- sit down and have a discussion about the pros and cons of a specialty and any difficulties you may have making a choice
An online scheduling system makes appointment setting easy. Meet with the career advisor as frequently or infrequently as you wish.
Specialty Advisors
After you have decided on a specialty, you will be assigned a specialty advisor. This person is a faculty member in your specialty of choice who has the most up-to-date information and advice available on applying to that particular specialty. These advisors are trained in helping you to accurately self-assess your strengths and weaknesses to maximize your success in the Match process. You may choose to meet with your advisor as many times as needed to prepare the best possible application for residency as well as getting advice on program selection, residency interview strategies and ranking order.
Online Mentors
Over 200 alumni and faculty have volunteered to become online mentors. Their names, specialties, contact information, state in which they live, residency training program and area of expertise are all available on Pilot organized by specialties. These mentors are available to you from day one of medical school. This relationship between mentees and mentors can vary from answering a single question to developing into a career-long relationship. Many of the faculty who are serving as mentors can be a mentor, a friend or an advocate for you. Students who are appealing decisions of the Student Promotions Committee may have a mentor accompany them to an appeal hearing if they have a hearing before the Honor Code Council.
Observerships
Students wishing to do an observership (shadowing) whether at BSOM or away need to stop in the Office of Student Affairs and Admissions, go on Career Services BAMS page or go to Student Life on the BSOM webpage and fill out an observership form. The completed form must be turned into the Office of Student Affairs and Admissions. This form provides notification that you are participating in a non-curricular activity that requires student malpractice coverage.