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aria-label="Medical students celebrate their residency placements on Match Day 2018" class="caption caption-img"> <img alt="Match Day 2018" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9d7431bc-a34d-4525-9a30-573d88f6721b" src="/sites/meded.ucsf.edu/files/inline-images/Match%20Day%202018%202.jpg" width="500" height="333" loading="lazy"> <figcaption>Medical students celebrate their residency placements on Match Day 2018</figcaption> </figure> <p>At every stage of your medical school careers at UCSF, we want students to feel supported, prepared and have the resources you need to make career decisions and set yourselves up for thriving careers as physician leaders. The following resources are available to prepare and support you on this journey. Remember you can also reach out to your <a href="https://meded.ucsf.edu/md-program/current-students/curriculum/bridges-faculty/coaching-program">School of Medicine coach</a> at any point in this process.</p> </div> <dom-twocolumn-layout data-column1-color="interactive-teal" data-column1-size="50" data-column2-color="interactive-teal" data-column2-size="50"> <div class="column1" slot="column1" style="--column1-color: var(--bg-interactive-teal); --column1-size: var(--size-50); --column1-font-color: var(--font-white)"> <div id="modo-som-nso-2"> <p class="border-navy">Getting Started</p> <ul> <li>A comprehensive career advising program is delivered during your PI week sessions in tandem with your medical student coaches.</li> <li><a href="http://dev.d8.meded.ucsf.edu/career-advising-program-videos-and-checklist#program">Watch PI Week career advising program videos</a> on choosing a specialty, using clerkships for career exploration, and more.</li> <li><a href="https://meded.ucsf.edu/md-program/current-students/student-services/advising-career-development/career-advising-program-videos-and-checklist#checklist" target="_blank">Use this checklist</a> to learn what you need to do during each year of medical school at UCSF to stay on track.</li> </ul> <p><a class="btn btn-info btn-lg btn-block" href="https://meded.ucsf.edu/md-program/current-students/student-services/advising-career-development/career-advising-program-videos-and-checklist"> Program Videos and Checklist</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="column2" slot="column2" style="--column2-color: var(--bg-interactive-teal); --column2-size: var(--size-50); --column2-font-color: var(--font-white)"> <p class="border-navy">Specialty Residency Advising </p> <p>Specialty residency advisors are selected by their departments to support students with the best career advice for their respective specialties. We鈥檝e gathered FAQs from advisors, such as:</p> <ul> <li>What does a typical workday look like?</li> <li>What are the ways in which this career path may support or challenge having a family?</li> <li>How can students explore this career specialty?</li> </ul> <p><a class="btn btn-info btn-lg btn-block" href="https://meded.ucsf.edu/careeradvisors#SPECIAL">Specialty residency advising</a></p> </div> </dom-twocolumn-layout> <h2> Who's Who</h2> <dom-threecolumn-layout data-column1-color="interactive-dark-blue" data-column1-size="33" data-column2-color="interactive-dark-blue" data-column2-size="33" data-column3-color="interactive-dark-blue" data-column3-size="33"> <div class="column1" slot="column1" style="--column1-color: var(--bg-interactive-dark-blue); --column1-size: var(--size-33); --column1-font-color: var(--font-white)"> <p class="border-green">Academic Staff Advisors</p> <ul> <li>Support with deadlines and academic logistics</li> <li>Tutoring, resource referrals, and more</li> </ul> <p><a class="btn btn-green btn-lg btn-block" href="#Academic">Meet Your Academic Advisor</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> <div class="column2" slot="column2" style="--column2-color: var(--bg-interactive-dark-blue); --column2-size: var(--size-33); --column2-font-color: var(--font-white)"> <p class="border-green">Career Advising Directors</p> <p>With general expertise in specialty selection, residency applications and matching, Dr. Brent Kobashi, Dr Neeti Parikh and Dr. Jessie Werner are available for:</p> <ul> <li>General advising about career exploration</li> <li>Support with narrowing specialty options or considering new ones</li> <li>Residency match advising - particularly for people pursuing Couples Match, Military Match, or who are considering applying in more than one specialty.</li> </ul> <p><a class="btn btn-green btn-lg btn-block" href="#co-directors">MEET CAREER ADVISING directors</a></p> </div> <div class="column3" slot="column3" style="--column3-color: var(--bg-interactive-dark-blue); --column3-size: var(--size-33); --column3-font-color: var(--font-white)"> <p class="border-green">Specialty Residency Advisors</p> <p>There are <em>confidentia</em>l and <em>main</em> specialty residency advisors:</p> <ul> <li><em><strong>Confidential Advisors:</strong></em> A good place to start when you have a genuine interest in a specialty, but have not decided on a field.</li> <li><strong><em>Main Advisors:</em></strong> Faculty to talk with when you have decided on a specialty.</li> </ul> <p class="border-green"><a class="btn btn-green btn-lg btn-block" href="https://meded.ucsf.edu/student-services/specialty-information-and-advising#SPECIAL">Contact Your Specialty Residency Advisors</a></p> </div> </dom-threecolumn-layout> <div id="modo-som-nso-3"> <h2><a id="co-directors" name="co-directors"></a>Meet the Directors of the Career Advising Program</h2> <p>UCSF School of Medicine Career Advising Program directors are available as ongoing resources for general career advising from the beginning of F1 to graduation:</p> <p>General advising about specialty exploration, including clarifying goals and priorities</p> <ul> <li>Assistance with narrowing down specialty options, or considering new ones</li> <li>Approach to challenges and roadblocks that relate to career and professional development</li> <li>Consideration of additional degrees and/or time away from medical school to improve residency application competitiveness</li> <li>Discussion about career paths outside of clinical training</li> <li>Facilitation of communication with/between specialty residency advisors and/or other faculty mentors</li> </ul> <p>For the 2024-2025 year:</p> <ul> <li>Students in Career Launch (in all UCSF Medical School programs) should schedule appointments with Dr Kobashi</li> <li>Students in F2 or F1 in San Francisco should schedule appointments with Dr. Parikh</li> <li>Students in F2 or F1 in Fresno (including SJV-Prime students in F1) should schedule appointments with Dr. Werner.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Please note that appointments are for current and graduated UCSF Medical Students only</strong></p> <dom-threecolumn-layout data-column1-color="interactive-blue" data-column1-size="33" data-column2-color="interactive-blue" data-column2-size="33" data-column3-color="interactive-blue" data-column3-size="33"> <div class="column1" slot="column1" style="--column1-color: var(--bg-interactive-blue); --column1-size: var(--size-33); --column1-font-color: var(--font-white)"><img alt="Dr. Brent Kobashi" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="e31de091-8462-4bad-b3d5-9636057916fa" src="/sites/meded.ucsf.edu/files/inline-images/Brent-Kobashi_v2_150x200_0.jpg" class="align-center" width="150" height="200" loading="lazy"> <p class="text-align-center"><strong>Dr. Brent Kobashi</strong></p> <p class="text-align-center">Faculty Director of Career Advising</p> <p><a class="btn btn-orange" href="https://ucsfstudentscheduling.as.me/brentkobashi" target="_blank">Schedule a meeting with Dr. Kobashi</a></p> </div> <div class="column2" slot="column2" style="--column2-color: var(--bg-interactive-blue); --column2-size: var(--size-33); --column2-font-color: var(--font-white)"><img alt="Dr Neeti Parikh" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="026ad8ad-7159-4662-ba34-d204d79c43ca" src="/sites/meded.ucsf.edu/files/inline-images/Neeti_Parikh_150x200_0.jpg" class="align-center" width="150" height="200" loading="lazy"> <p class="text-align-center"><strong>Dr. Neeti Parikh</strong></p> <p class="text-align-center">Faculty Assistant Director of Career Advising - San Francisco</p> <p class="text-align-center"><a class="btn btn-orange" href="https://ucsfstudentscheduling.as.me/NeetiParikh" target="_blank">Schedule a meeting with Dr. Parikh</a></p> </div> <div class="column3" slot="column3" style="--column3-color: var(--bg-interactive-blue); --column3-size: var(--size-33); --column3-font-color: var(--font-white)"><img alt="Dr. Jessie Warner" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="31989766-2506-4f00-a8f6-339ac7db7467" src="/sites/meded.ucsf.edu/files/inline-images/Jessie_Werner_150x200_0.jpg" class="align-center" width="150" height="200" loading="lazy"> <p class="text-align-center"><strong>Jessie Werner, MD</strong></p> <p class="text-align-center">Faculty Assistant Director of Career Advising - Fresno</p> <p class="text-align-center"><a class="btn btn-orange" href="https://ucsfstudentscheduling.as.me/JessieWerner" target="_blank">Schedule a Meeting with Dr. Werner</a></p> </div> </dom-threecolumn-layout> <hr> <h2>Meet with a Specialty Advisor or Join a Specialty Interest Group</h2> <p>To speak with an advisor experienced in a specific specialty, we have both <em>confidential</em> and <em>main </em>specialty advisors available to speak with you. <em>C</em><em>onfidential</em> advisors are <em>not</em> on the residency selection committee, and do not share information about students with whom they have met with the selection committee. Meeting with the <em>confidential</em> advisor in a specialty is ideal for students who have not yet decided whether to pursue a specialty, but need to be able to speak openly and honestly with a faculty person in the field to get advice.</p> <div> <p><a class="btn-text" href="https://meded.ucsf.edu/career-specialty-advisors#SPECIAL" target="_blank">FIND YOUR SPECIALTY CAREER ADVISOR</a> </p> <p><a class="btn-text" href="https://meded.ucsf.edu/md-program/current-students/student-services/student-organizations#Full-List-of-Specialty-Interest-Groups">Join a Specialty Interest Group</a></p> <hr> <h2><a id="checklist" name="checklist"></a>Career Advising Program, Checklist and Videos</h2> <p>A great place to get started if you are beginning to explore career paths. Watch overview lectures on choosing a specialty, using clerkships for career exploration, and more. The checklist tells you what you need to do during each year of medical school at UCSF to stay on track.</p> <p><a class="btn-text" href="http://meded.ucsf.edu/md-program/current-students/student-services/advising-career-development/career-advising-program-videos-and-checklist"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Access the career advising roadmap, checklist and videos</span></span></span></span></span></span></a></p> <hr> <h2><a id="Academic" name="Academic"></a>Meet With an Academic Advisor</h2> </div> <p>Academic Advisors provide a broad spectrum of academic support, including tutoring, medical school orientation, curriculum cadence and leave, resource referrals, clinical clerkship scheduling and the residency application process. Additionally, academic advisors can help guide you with Foundations 1, Foundations 2, or Career Launching. 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