UAMS will utilize the AAMC framework for career advising focusing on four areas that build on the previous one:
- M1 – Understand yourself
- M2 – Exploring Options
- M3 – Finding Your People
- M4 – Preparing for Residency
Optional and Required Career Advising Programs
Describe each career information session and advising activity that was available for medical students in each year of the curriculum during the most recently completed academic year. Note whether each was required (R) or optional (O). Schools with regional campus(es) should provide the information by campus. This chart describes activities on both the Little Rock and Northwest Campuses.
| Year 1 | Year 2 | Year 3 | Year 4 |
| Careers in Medicine: Explore CiM link & Value Cards workshop to identify priorities for their career path – during M1 Orientation (R) | Careers in Medicine Part 2- M2 orientation/Meeting (R) Workshop to complete Careers in Medicine Survey | ||
| Meet with Academic House Advisor 2x/year (R) | Meet with Academic House Advisor 2x/year (R) | Meet with Academic House Advisor 2x/year (R) | Meet with Academic House Advisor 1x/year Review Noteworthy Characteristics (R) |
| Academic House Meetings (as scheduled) (R) | Academic House Meetings (as scheduled) (R) | Academic House Meetings (as scheduled) (R) | Academic House Meetings (as scheduled) (R) |
| Mentoring program available campus-wide through Upsquad (O)https://social.upsquad.com/ | Mentoring program available campus-wide through Upsquad (O)https://social.upsquad.com/ | Mentoring program available campus-wide through Upsquad (O)https://social.upsquad.com/ | Mentoring program available campus-wide through Upsquad (O)https://social.upsquad.com/ |
| POM I Shadowing Program, 1/semester (R) | Clinical preceptorship in POM 2, 3x/semester (R) | ||
| Meeting to share info about M3 lottery, Clerkships, and selective offerings (R) | Quarterly class meetings focusing on M4 lottery & requirements, residency, career choices, advising and the match (R) | Quarterly class meetings focusing on ERAS and Match recommendation and the SOAP process. (R) | |
| All M1s attend the Interest Group fair during freshmen orientation with over 40 participating interest groups. (R) | M2s are invited to attend the M1 Interest Fair in August (O) | ||
| Student Interest Groups in every field available on UAMS COM Website and through Upsquad. Students are instructed how to access the these and sign up. (O) https://social.upsquad.com/ | Student Interest Groups in every field available on UAMS COM Website and through Upsquad (O) https://social.upsquad.com/ | Student Interest Groups in every field available on UAMS COM Website and through Upsquad (O) https://social.upsquad.com/ | Student Interest Groups in every field available on UAMS COM Website and through Upsquad (O) https://social.upsquad.com/ |
| “Speed dating”- Women’s Faculty Development Caucus (O) | “Speed dating”- Women’s Faculty Development Caucus (O) | “Speed dating”- Women’s Faculty Development Caucus (O) | “Speed dating”- Women’s Faculty Development Caucus (O) |
| Choose Career Advisor fall semester, must meet with advisor and work on advising worksheet by January of M3 year (R) | Meet with Career Advisor (minimum 1x, often multiple times) (R) | ||
| Every January, the student affairs office compiles and sends out to M1s the list of all summer specialty specific offerings and programs.(O) | Dept presentation of elective offerings for M4 year (Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, Psychiatry, Family Medicine, and Surgery) (O) | M4 senior education specialist available as needed to discuss elective choices (O) | |
| Overview of CV – what is it and how to begin (R) | CV Check-in during M2 Orientation. (R) | POM III: Preparing your personal statement (R) Constructing your CV and review with advisor –(R) | Residency Prep Course Mock Interviews- Residency Prep (R) |
All career counseling is managed and coordinated by the medical school administration, specifically the associate dean for student affairs, and career advising is provided by faculty.