Formerly known as Career Day, this half-day event will be held on January 20, 2010 for the Class of 2011 in the Student Alumni Center (SAC) from 1:00 - 4:30 p.m. After a brief overview, students will be given an opportunity to explore the various specialties by meeting with knowledgeable faculty and residents during our "round-robin" sessions which are designed to give students a chance to ask questions and gain valuable insight regarding such issues as specialty competitiveness, strategy for scheduling electives, and the in's and out's of the application process itself. Since each specialty will be offered multiple times, students can, if they choose, explore more than one specialty.
The second part of the series, which held in late spring, is the Strolling Through the Match workshop (STTM). This workshop introduces students to the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) and the Electronic Residency Application Serivce (ERAS), the two key elements in the preparing for application to residency. Participation in both workshops as well as having utilized the online tools provided by Careers in Medicine, students are better able to plan for and achieve their professional career goals. Just like Careers in Medicine, attendance for both Workshops is optional, but critical for success. Snack-pack provided. If you have questions, please contact Debbey Hester, 448-5531/dhester@utmem.edu or via live-chat right here on the Student Affairs website.
To register online, select the registration form that best describes you as a participant [NETID and password required]:
Member Class of 2011: Available December 7, 2009 (UT NETID and password required)
The Residency Exploration Day program is available online and will be updated as specialty and room assignments are confirmed. Please point your browser to: Class of 2011 Residency Exploration Day Program [36KB]
2010-2011 Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship for medical students
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announces the availability of the 2010-2011 Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowships (CRF) for medical students. The program is open to medical students in good standing at any US medical school. Accepted students spend a year out from medical school on a mentored clinical research project at one of 12 hosting schools.
The application deadline is January 6, 2010. The start date of the fellowship is July 1, 2010.
Class of 2010 | 2009-10 Residency Application Timeline
To ensure a successful residency application process, please review the 2009-10 residency application timeline below. For questions or additional information, please contact Debbey Hester at 448-5531. We also invite you to visit our career counseling page for additional information that might also help make this process easier for you.
Military Match Rank Order List (check official websites for exact dates)
September-October (deadline)
MSPE Release Date (all matches/all specialties)
November 1
Military Match Results (check official websites for exact dates)
December
NRMP Rank Order List
January -February 24 (deadline)
Early Match (AUA) Rank Order List
January 7 (deadline)
Early Match (SF Match-Ophthalmology) Rank Order List
January 4 (deadline)
Early Match (SF Match-Ophthalmology) Match Results
January 14
Early Match (AUA) Match Results
January 25
NRMP Match Notification (matched/unmatched)
March 15
NRMP Scramble
March 16-17
NRMP Match Day
March 18
*Dates/time subject to change. Appointments scheduled on first-come/first-served basis.
Welcome to the Office of Student Affairs web page. We appreciate the time you have taken to visit our page and hope you find our information helpful and informative. The Office of Student Affairs is concerned with the overall growth, development, and graduation of medical students. Thus, the goal of our office is to serve students through a wide range of activities and programs, including career counseling, residency placement, graduation activities, and much, much more.
Student Affairs is intimately involved in seeking ways to enhance students' non-academic experiences with a goal of assuring that problems are addressed before they have an adverse affect on the students. Students with various concerns, whether personal, financial, or social, should not hesitate to contact our office whenever they feel the need.
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Once a week, College of Medicine students have been going to Downtown Elementary School to tutor and work with the students. It's a great way to give back to the community that provides us with so much during our medical education, and this affords the medical students to be a powerful, positive influence in the younger kids' lives.
For a month during the spring of 2008, several senior medical students participated in the Rural/Urban Himalayan Rotation through Child Family Health International (CFHI). CFHI offers service-learning programs around the world, and as students in the program, they were charged with broadening public health knowledge in the areas they served, interfacing with a different culture, and developing creativity in public health problem-solving. These M4's were based primarily in north India, living in the city of Dehra Dun; they each spent a week in both the hill station of Mussoorie and small clinic in the rural community of Than Gaon. While in India, these medical students had the opportunity to encounter a range of unique diseases, some of which are now seen only in the most rural clinical healthcare environments of this country. In addition to emphasizing primary care and public health, the program also showed the UTCOM students how the health care needs of rural communities in India impinge on the delivery of health care in urban areas.
To help address the problem of infant mortality in Memphis, twenty medical students organized a session at the Pyramid Academy to work with pregnant teenagers, educating these women on safe sleep for their infants. It is well known that co-sleeping and other such child-rearing practices increase the incidence of accidental suffocation and sudden infant death (SIDS) in the first few months of life. To dissuade these behaviors, medical students instructed the expecting mothers in the assembly of simple bassinets for safer infant sleep. By participating in this activity, medical students hope to contribute to a practical solution for this troubling problem.
May 21st, 2008 will mark the three-year anniversary of the opening of Clínica Esperanza. Clínica Esperanza (Clinic of Hope) serves uninsured, Hispanic patients each Wednesday evening from 5:30-9:00 pm. With the support of Christ Community Clinic, Clínica Esperanza has helped meet the medical needs of hundreds of patients over the last three years. The clinic is completely run by volunteers. Student volunteers from all four medical school classes come each week and serve as interpreters, work in the lab, help update patient records, and interview and examine patients under the direction of attending physicians. The attending physicians from the departments of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and Ob/Gyn provide patients with excellent care, while exemplifying for the students the importance of serving in the community as an essential part of the medical profession. If you would like more information about Clínica Esperanza, please E-mail clinicaesperanza@utmem.edu
In light of the tragic events that transpired on the campus of Virginia Tech, the UTHSC students have arranged for a floral wreath to be placed in a memorial site on the campus of Virginia Tech. The wreath, adorned with orange, maroon and white flowers, will be among hundreds of floral arrangements being sent in rememberance of the victims and their families, as well as the Virginia Tech family. Your thoughts and continued acts of kindness to the students, faculty and staff of Virginia Tech are deeply appreciated. (UTHSC Campus Communications; 04/19/2007)
Students and faculty of the College of Medicine raise over $2400 for the "Save the Children Tsunami Relief Effort". This very successful fundraising effort was led by CIAO, Council for International & Area Outreach.
In January and February 2005, our medical students donned work gloves and boots to clear Zion Christian Cemetery, a 15-acre historic site founded in 1876 by former slaves and final resting place of 22,000 African-Americans, during Project Zion. Four acres are now cleared with eleven remaining on this ambitious project.
Ten first year medical students joined nine second year medical students in being selected to enter the second class of the College's certificate program in health policy and health system leadership. The program, which is coordinated by the Center of Health Services Research, offers students with special interests in health policy and leadership additional experiences in state government and health systems. During the next four years, these students will observe agencies of state government, attend leadership seminars and participate in a rotation with a senior leader of a local health care system. In addition to their M.D. degree upon graduation, they will also receive a certificate of special accomoplishment.
Students teach medical disaster preparedness of chemical, biological, radiological, and general disaster information through UT Community Disaster Relief.
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The NIH Medical Student Research Fellowship Program (MSRF) at the UT College of Medicine enables UT medical students, selected on a competitive basis, to engage in individualized research projects under the supervision of COM faculty investigators in both basic science & clinical science departments during the summer or off-quarters.
