There are several full-time academic advisors within the Senior Associate Dean of Basic Sciences Office namely the AADS unit, which lead and coordinate the Academic Advising Program. A select number of faculty in terms 1-5 assist the full-time academic advisors to provide consistent, current, and specific advice to students. Academic Advising is a key component of the Interactive Team Instruction (ITI) delivery of the Basic Principles of Medicine, (BPM) and Principles of Clinical Medicine, (PCM) courses of the MD Program, via the AADS. The AADS faculty provide advice regarding academic options available to students (e.g., joining the ITI delivery method, taking the Credit Remediation (CR) option), study techniques, individualized study plans, time management advice etc. These advisors very often refer students to other service departments such as DES, Psychological Services, individual faculty for specific content issues etc . In addition, all teaching faculty in Years 1 and 2 hold weekly office hours for students in the MD program.
During the Clinical Years there are over 50 part time clinical academic advisors who are practicing physicians and assist students in clinical rotations regarding their clinical timeline, follow up after Midcore, and NBME exams and clinical rotation completions. They are assigned to students based on the students’ clinical hospitals.