The Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine (CDEM) group is about ready to officially launch the e-Advisor Program!
The e-Advisor program will be replacing the successful but unfortunately retired SAEM Virtual Advisor Program. The first phase of the program is to target medical schools, which do not have a home Emergency Medicine (EM) residency program. Students from such medical schools are traditionally thought to be at a slight disadvantage compared to students from other schools, because they do not have easy access to EM faculty who are intimately involved with the residency application, screening, interview, and rank-listing processes.
Each school will have a team of 2-5 geographically diverse CDEM faculty advisors who will be available to advise students potentially interested in EM. Students can think of them as their own personal "A-Team" (remember that great TV series?). They can help students figure out such questions as:
- How many residency programs should I apply for?
- How competitive am I, given my CV and application?
- Who should I get letters of recommendations from and what's a SLOR?
- How should I plan my 4th year?
- What is interview season like?
Here's a sneak peak at the first 10 medical schools, which were selected for the e-Advisor Program. The Emergency Medicine Interest Groups (EMIGs) from these schools have all expressed interest in being part of the pilot group.- Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, TX)
- Dartmouth School of Medicine (Hanover, NH)
- Meharry Medical College (Nashville, TN)
- Rush Medical College (Chicago, IL)
- Sanford School of Medicine of Univ of South Dakota (Vermillion, SD)
- Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine (New York, NY)
- Tufts University School of Medicine (Boston, MA)
- University of Miami School of Medicine (Miami, FL)
- University of Missouri School of Medicine (Columbia, MO)
- University of Vermont College of Medicine (Burlington, VT)
Phase 2 will provide e-Advisors to another 10 medical schools. This time, schools with or without home EM residency programs, will be eligible. Medical schools will be chosen based on those who request the CDEM e-Advisor service. For those schools with residency EM programs, out-of-state e-Advisors will be provided.Kudos to Dr. Megan Fix (Maine Medical Center), who has been leading the charge to make the CDEM e-Advisor Program a reality.
Questions: Would you like for us to consider your medical school as part of Phase 2 of the e-Advisor program? If so, email me at Michelle.Lin@emergency.ucsf.edu.
