Pre-Health Advising Specialist (Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences BS Program - College of Medicine)

Responsibilities

• Serves as pre-med/pre-health advisor; assists students with their course schedule, career choice, and informs them of the resources available within the university.
• Provides academic guidance and counseling to prospective and current pre-health professional undergraduate students as to the pre-requisite courses and other qualifications for application to the professional school of their choice.
• Meets with students for individualized appointments. Maintains effective, efficient, and professional correspondence via email and other student communication services provided by the University (e.g., email, Campus Connect, etc.).
• Maintains a log of advising notes in a computerized database both at the College of Medicine and with the university advising database system (Advisor Center and EAB).
• Responsible for relationships building, monitoring progress, providing intervention, follow-up, and academic support for students as needed.
• Represents the pre-health advising services at University-wide orientation programs.
• Responsible for managing the letters of recommendation process for pre-medical students applying to medical schools via the Pre-health Professions Advising Office.
• Includes meeting with students, processing letters, creating letter packets, and uploading letter packets into the VirtualEvals system for the American Medical College's Application Service (AMCAS), emailing faculty and students immediately upon receipt of letters, and maintaining excellent email/phone communication with students and faculty.
• Responsible for making presentations to premedical student organizations about the process of submitting letters.
• Responsible for updating the Pre-Health Advising webpage with instructions pertaining to securing letters of recommendation.
• Serves to support Pre-Health professional organizations staffed by the Pre-Health Professions Advising Office.
• Responsible for advising post-baccalaureate students, reviewing personal statements, mock interviews and designing an intervention plan for student application or reapplication to medical school.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree and two years of experience; or a combination of post-high school education and experience equal to six years. (Note: post-high school education can substitute for experience at the equivalent rate.)