University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
College of Medicine
Office of Continuing Medical Education
Dear Career Mentors for our Medical Students:
Update, our two CME-accredited Career Advisor Training sessions are now on Thursday, Feb. 18, with times and places
listed below. These were rescheduled due to severe weather and airport closures in Washington, D.C., preventing our
facilitator’s travel. We look forward to seeing you there.
These are lively, interactive CME presentations. Both are facilitated by the AAMC Careers in Medicine Program
Manager, Jeanette Calli. You may attend either or both:
Session 1:
Session 2:
Medical Student Career Advising: Helping Students
Careers in Medicine: Resources & Skills for Effective
Find their Fit
Advising
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry and
Oklahoma City Campus, February 18, 2010
Behavioral Sciences
5:00-6:30 pm, Coussons Auditorium, Everett Tower
Oklahoma City Campus, February 18, 2010
Second Floor
12:00-1:30 pm, BSEB, Conference Room 320
(Rescheduling has resulted in a new location for this
session only). (A light lunch will be provided)
Sponsored by University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Office of Continuing Medical Education
There is no registration charge for participants to attend. Please register for planning purposes.
Educational Objectives:
Session 1- Upon completion of this activity, participants will help students integrate information presented to
prepare them to make an informed specialty choice by:
 Improving advisors’ skills in counseling students on assessing the competitiveness of various disciplines and
ways that students can enhance their applications (electives, research, etc.);
 Helping advisors identify and categorize students’ career needs for lifestyle, reimbursement and advanced
fellowship training;
 Improving advisors’ ability to distinguish students’ interests, values, and abilities as they relate to various
specialties; and
 Assisting mentors in formulating an individualized career plan, helping students through the process of
self-assessment, specialty exploration, and decision-making.
Session 2- Upon completion of this activity, faculty advisor participants will better understand, recognize and
integrate resources available to them as they help students with career choice and preparation for the residency
match process. Resources include:
 The Medical Student Preference Inventory (MSPI), which assesses students’ various interests and relates
them to specialties in which physicians share these interests. Advisors will understand how to interpret
this self-report instrument.
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The Careers in Medicine Advisor Resources: Provides skills for advising medical students, tips for helping
students identify values and interests, and practical tips for helping prepare students to negotiate the
entire residency match process.
Charting Outcomes in the Match: help advisors to recognize and interpret detailed information about
characteristics of seniors who matched in various specialties in the most recent match. They will help
students better recognize their own competitiveness.
Ways to categorize specialty information, including training, lifestyle, salary, contacts, that are important
to students in evaluating their options
Links to FREIDA (Information on specific residency training programs in the U.S. and Canada), ERAS,
NRMP, etc., as resources for students to employ in their decisions process
Enhanced knowledge about special issues of the Couples Match, geographic constraints, deficits in parts of
the students’ applications, etc. to help them better prepare students for the match.
The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to
sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1
Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Office of Continuing Medical Education has reviewed this activity’s speaker
and planner disclosures and resolved all identified conflicts of interest, if applicable.
The University of Oklahoma is an Equal Opportunity Institution.
For accommodations on the basis of disability, call Susie Dealy at 271-2350 ext.1 or campus 46323.
To Register:
You may register online http://cme.ouhsc.edu , phone: (405) 271-2350, fax: (405) 271-3087 or e-mail:
susie-dealy@ouhsc.edu. If you plan to register via e-mail, please be sure to include the information below and
which programs you want to attend. Space is limited, so please RSVP as soon as possible. At the program, you will be
asked to complete an evaluation form in order to receive CME credit.
First Name
Last Name
Degree
Title
Department
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Session 1
Fax
Session 2
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