House Advisory System

Goals of the Program

• To promote advising and mentoring for medical students across all four years of medical school
• To allow students to more easily develop nurturing professional relationships with faculty members
• To encourage students to serve as peer advisors and role models for other students following in their footsteps
• To assist students with career development through advising, mentoring, peer relationships and professional connections
• To encourage professionalism, humanism, and personal wellness
• To develop a community of support and mentorship for those faculty interested in and dedicated to education

Advantages

• Class cohesiveness
• Vertical mentoring from students in other classes
• Closer associations with faculty
• Opportunity for faculty to work as group for scholarly activity

Structure

• Students assigned to one of four houses named for prominent SOM alumni
• 1 senior faculty educator serves as head of each house
• 32 core faculty (8 per house) are each assigned 5 incoming students per year (total cohort per faculty is 20 students)
• Future opportunity for alumni to be involved as well
• Core faculty meet their group regularly
• House meetings with Head of House, core faculty, and students
• Yearly welcome event at start of year for all incoming students