Increase persistence by participating students. Students learn how to study. In each SI session the leader demonstrates a new study skill or reinforces a familiar one. Students use their study skills on the Block content itself. The SI coordinator focuses on skills that are highly relevant to the Block.
Participants apply new skills during the session.
Mentoring Students on clerkship rotations are assigned a mentor in addition to the advisor they have had since the first year. A long-term relationship is established between students and appropriate mentors. Students are evaluated frequently by mentors to document strengths, weaknesses and the need for remedial education. Constructive feedback will be fundamental to the student-mentor relationship. Institutional mentoring will be accomplished through the use of the centrally managed student database, through which clinical experiences and students' reflective comments will be tracked and reviewed on a regular basis by faculty.