Key date to remember

Official LCME site visit: Feb. 18-21, 2024

Overview of Career Advising

LCME Element 11.2 - Career Advising

What: Different from academic advising and academic counseling, career advising supports medical students as they explore and select specialties, apply for residency and determine long-term career goals.

Why: There are more than 120 specialties in medicine for students to choose from, and residency matching has become extremely competitive. With our four-year integrated Careers in Medicine Program, which will soon be enhanced by four new faculty career advisers, we consistently match students at or above the national average in the National Residency Matching Program and other residency matches.

Call to action:

We encourage physicians to make themselves available to students as they explore the many specialties our institution has to offer.

Please consider becoming a specialty adviser during residency application season, and making research and other career exploration opportunities available to students as they begin forming their professional identities.

LCME Element 11.2

A medical school has an effective career advising system in place that integrates the efforts of faculty members, clerkship directors and student affairs staff to assist medical students in choosing elective courses, evaluating career options and applying to residency programs.

Source: LCME Functions and Structure of a Medical School 2023-24