WHY SHOULD MEDICAL SCHOOLS SIGN UP

Key Points to Consider

  • The medical career process (MCP) is a time limited process with current results from students:
  • Almost 35% did not use (25.4%)or found School-sponsored career planning workshops and courses not useful(8.9%)
  • 25% of students grade advising mentoring services at their schools 3 or less 10% of students did not use(4.9%) or found the advising /mentoring services at their schools not useful(5.6%);
  • 43% of students did not use(32.2%) or found the Careers in Medicine website not useful(10.6%)
Source: AAMC Graduation Questionnaire
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  • Inadequate Exposure: No single medical school has all the ERAS specialties in an individual institution. Unrealistic to expect e.g. aerospace medicine in all schools, and there are few optimal choices to serve the needs of the few students who are just considering aerospace medicine.
  • Inadequate Curriculum: No defined curriculum, with scope changing constantly from year to year.
  • Inadequate Help: No specific help geared towards the student who changes their mind late or is late making up their mind.
  • Inadequate Framework: No specific framework to help students who are unaware of various aspects of the MCP, given that this is time-limited.
  • Inadequate Mentoring services to in-institution students: Some schools may not have an in-house mentoring program, or the mentoring program is resource-limited.
  • Inadequate Coaching services to in-institution students: Some schools may not have an in-house coaching program, or the coaching program is resource-limited.
  • Inadequate Mentoring or coaching services to external students: Faculty at schools with in-house mentoring and coaching programs frequently mentor and coach students who do not have those resources at their institutions, but they have limited bandwidth to serve these students.

Benefits of Membership

  • Access to the website for your students which is constantly being updated to keep abreast of latest changed in the MCP
  • Discount for Sub-specialization in Mentorship course
  • Discount for Sub-specialization in coaching course
  • CoMenCoI course
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