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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