The Office of Student Affairs provides access to tutoring services, academic advising, and financial aid counseling. In addition, the Office of Diversity and Community Outreach serve minority students. The Office of Student Advising and Counseling provides help to our students in the form of career guidance, personal counseling and family therapy. These services are available on a limited basis for spouses and dependents and referrals made when necessary. Each freshman student is provided with a sophomore buddy, and the student can request an alumni mentor.
Faculty members serve as advisors to third and fourth-year students.
Students must select a faculty advisor in the specialties of their choice. The student body is diverse and includes individuals from a variety of ethnic, social-economic and geographic backgrounds. Women make up from a quarter to a third of our medical school classes while minority students represent just under ten percent. The Eccles Health Sciences Library, recognized as a good health care resource, is adjacent to the School of Medicine, and there is an additional clinical library available in the University Hospital. The library is well stocked with texts, medical journals, and audiovisual and computer learning resources.