Women in Medicine Advisor Information and Guidelines

What students want from you:
What it’s really like to be a physician; how and why did you choose medicine?

Insight regarding balancing personal and professional lives

Professional and emotional support

Help in selecting clinical rotations appropriate to the student’’s interest and career choice(s)

Information on residency programs and selection

Letters of recommendation for residency applications

Responsibilities:

1) Expose the students to the wonderful world of medicine!
2) Explore with students their strengths, weaknesses, goals, current direction and vocational objectives, pathways to achieving their goals, resources available, and anything else you feel would be helpful to them.
3) Inquire about personal and academic background and support network. Be available to offer referrals for assistance with problems (Dean’’s office; University counseling services, etc.)
4) Follow-up with students to see how they are progressing; be creative and invent a reason to be in touch with them!

Nurturing your student-mentor relationship:
Please remember you are a role model to students. Consider inviting your mentee to your office, rounds, lunch, or a local professional meeting to share your lifestyle with them and to get to know them on a more personal level. Students will greatly appreciate the interaction and your availability to them.

Class-specific guidelines and helpful information to know:
Timelines:
1st- year students: Classes begin mid-August.

Curriculum: anatomy, biochemistry, embryology (fall);
physiology, neuroscience, histology, epidemiology (spring);
human behavior 1, principles of clinical medicine 1, integrated medical problem solving (all year)

Clinical encounters occur one day/week in the spring with assigned preceptor through Principles of Clinical Medicine (PCM).

Finals occur during the 2nd week in May.

Summer: available for clinical and/or research opportunities

2nd- year students: Classes begin mid-August.

Curriculum: microbiology and immunology (fall);
human behavior 2, professional ethics (spring);
introduction to human illness, pharmacology, principles of clinical
medicine 2, integrated medical problem solving 2 (all year)

Clinical encounters occur one day/week in the spring with assigned preceptor through PCM.

March: scheduling for 3rd-year begins; touch base with your mentee to see if they have any questions regarding the sequence of their schedule
(ex: peds first or last?)

Finals occur during the 2nd week in May.

Late May/Early June: USMLE Step 1 - a good luck e-mail can lift their spirits!

3rd- year students: July: rotations begin after 4th of July holiday. Touch base with your mentee

in August to see how rotations are going.

February: scheduling for 4th year begins. Students seek your guidance and input regarding electives.

June: 2-week vacation at the end of June

4th- year students: August: touch base with your mentee; see if info is needed re: residency programs

Early Fall: communicate with your mentee regarding residency applications

October - December: USMLE Step 2

March: match day for residency

June: graduation

Curriculum requirements for 3rd and 4th-year students:
Based on the students’’ background and career interests, consider recommending that students take a ““sub-internship”” during their 4th year. The skills learned will greatly enhance the ease of transition from being a student to being a resident.

No more than three electives may be chosen off campus. The Tulsa campus is NOT considered ““off campus”” nor is an international rotation with an affiliated university (this list is available in the Dean’’s office) unless its length exceeds three months.

Students may not take more than two electives in the same discipline unless content is significantly different.