These activities help channel students toward specialties they may want to enter after graduating. Students are especially interested in the various service organizations on campus. These organizations help meet community needs by raising funds or providing supervised medical care. Using their talents to help others, students usually discover they receive more than they have given. There are also opportunities for additional involvement in academics.
Students provide tutoring and serve as teaching assistants for some courses.
Students can also participate in test and curriculum review committees that evaluate academic performance and standards. Faculty Beyond teaching and providing academic assistance, the faculty lend support by supervising student functions as the annual school physicals program and other offerings designed to meet targeted needs in the community. Many of the clinical faculty have multiple responsibilities, such as patient care and research. Several faculty members conduct research through grants from organizations such as the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association. But rather than taking a back seat to other interests, teaching receives primary attention from the faculty.