Course Director Advising Course directors meet with individual students who seek their help. Course directors focus primarily on academic issues, but students may choose to share personal concerns with them. Office of Academic Assessment and Enrichment This office, Directed by Patricia Burton, is the center for academic support services and is housed in the Office of Student Affairs. The Director of Academic Assessment and Enrichment manages the tutoring program and arranges for individual and group tutors for students who desire academic help. Confidential academic and personal counseling is available for students who are experiencing academic difficulty.
Psychoeducational testing is also available, as needed, as are support groups and tutoring.
Many opportunities exist to assist students in making a choice of medical discipline and choosing a residency program. A series of department and discipline-based Pathways have been established. The Pathways form the core program for specialty advising, with the Pathway Directors and Advisors serving career information resources for medical students in all years of training. The specific discipline-based Pathway curricula have been carefully developed to support the career goals of students while assuring a comprehensive general professional education. The fourth year discipline-based pathways allow the medical student to access and apply the counseling and advice of specific departmental Pathway preceptors in planning for course selection and sequencing, and in seeking career and residency application advice for that discipline.