Part-time Career Advising Specialist

Overview

Working with the Director for Career Development, this individual will serve as a career advisor for a cohort of medical students to provide guidance and direction for residency and career planning. This may include facilitating student’s development of skills for informed self-assessment of their individual values, interests, talents, capabilities, and needs; helping students critically appraise data about their performance and translate those assessments into action plans for future learning and career planning; and facilitating student development that results in sound decision-making skills for career planning and specialty selection. Review with the student their Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) and residency application including their personal statement, curriculum vitae, and other materials used for residency applications. Advise students regarding their fourth-year elective choices and sequencing, with consideration of career choice, scheduling and logistical issues, and graduation requirements. Time and effort: 0.2 FTE.

Responsibilities

Provide guidance and direction for residency and career planning that includes:

• Serving as a career advisor for a cohort of medical students across all four years of the curriculum.
• Interpreting data from AAMC’s Careers in Medicine (CiM), NRMP’s Charting Outcomes in the Match, Texas Star, and other resources for career advising purposes.
• Facilitating student’s development of skills for informed self-assessment of their individual values, interests, talents, capabilities, and needs.
• Helping students critically appraise data about their performance and translate those assessments into action plans for future learning and career planning
• Facilitating student development that results in sound decision-making skills for career planning and specialty selection.
• Advising students regarding their fourth-year elective choices and sequencing, with consideration of career choice, scheduling and logistical issues, and graduation requirements.
• Review of Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) and residency application materials with students, including their personal statement, curriculum vitae, and other materials used for residency applications.
• Collection and analysis of data for a Match risk assessment system for all WMed students.
• Acquires knowledge for new technology and policy/procedure revisions.
• All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE: 

• MD/DO, PhD, or equivalent degree required.
• Physicians with clinical responsibilities must maintain an active, unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Michigan, and maintain privileges at clinical sites corresponding with their clinical responsibilities. Other health care providers with clinical responsibilities must maintain the appropriate license for their profession, and maintain privileges at clinical sites corresponding with their clinical responsibilities.
• Must maintain a faculty appointment at the medical school.
• Record of accomplishment in medical student and/or resident career counseling and advising.

 

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS: 

Physicians must have board certification in an American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) specialty.

 

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Creativity, vision, and the ability to conceive the long-term implications and impact of current events and trends.
• Ability to effectively educate and communicate (in written and oral form) with a variety of individuals and groups.
• Ability to produce results under pressure (time deadlines and multiple projects) with minimal direction.
• High level of interpersonal, management, and negotiating skills, as well as the ability to influence others to take appropriate action and/or reach their full potential.
• Strong interpersonal skills that engender cooperation and collaboration among groups with diverse interests and background.
• Analytical, conceptual, and innovative thinking with the ability to look beyond the present, and take a pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize priorities in organization of work flow.
• Able to perform duties independently, with a minimal need for direct supervision.

About Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed)

 

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