PMID- 22622212
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120904
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1938-808X (Electronic)
IS  - 1040-2446 (Linking)
VI  - 87
IP  - 7
DP  - 2012 Jul
TI  - Careers in medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine: an innovative 
      approach to specialty exploration and selection.
PG  - 942-8
LID - 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182582698 [doi]
AB  - Research on resident attrition rates suggests that medical students would benefit 
      from more comprehensive career advising programs during medical school. 
      Responding to this need, students and administrators at the Vanderbilt University 
      School of Medicine (Vanderbilt) introduced a broad Careers in Medicine (CiM) 
      program in 2005 to complement the CiM resources offered by the Association of 
      American Medical Colleges (AAMC). In this article, the authors detail the 
      Vanderbilt CiM program's four core components: career-related events, an elective 
      course, specialty interest groups, and career advising. The authors discuss the 
      program's implementation and its student-led organizational structure, and they 
      provide a critical assessment of important lessons learned. Using data from 
      internal satisfaction surveys and the AAMC's Medical School Graduation 
      Questionnaire (GQ), they demonstrate the success of Vanderbilt's career 
      counseling efforts. According to recent GQ data, Vanderbilt ranks above the U.S. 
      medical school average on graduating students' ratings of overall satisfaction 
      with career services and of the usefulness of key programming. The authors 
      present this description of the Vanderbilt CiM model as a framework for other 
      medical schools to consider adopting or adapting as they explore options for 
      expanding their own career counseling services.
FAU - Sweeney, Kyle R
AU  - Sweeney KR
AD  - Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
FAU - Fritz, Ryan A
AU  - Fritz RA
FAU - Rodgers, Scott M
AU  - Rodgers SM
LA  - eng
PT  - Evaluation Study
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - United States
TA  - Acad Med
JT  - Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
JID - 8904605
SB  - IM
MH  - *Career Choice
MH  - Education, Medical/*organization & administration
MH  - Humans
MH  - Program Evaluation
MH  - Schools, Medical
MH  - *Specialization
MH  - Students, Medical/*psychology
MH  - Tennessee
MH  - *Vocational Guidance/methods/organization & administration
EDAT- 2012/05/25 06:00
MHDA- 2012/09/05 06:00
CRDT- 2012/05/25 06:00
PHST- 2012/05/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/05/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/09/05 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182582698 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Acad Med. 2012 Jul;87(7):942-8. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182582698.