The SOM Basic Sciences Honors Program is designed to enhance competitiveness for residency and to highlight academic and professional excellence in the SOM during the Basic Sciences phase. It is available to students that demonstrate consistently high performance in medical knowledge, medical skills and professional behaviors throughout the Basic Sciences. This official Basic Sciences Honors Program is recognized by certificate at the end of Basic Sciences. In addition, a special mention will be placed in the MSPE letter for Residency match. There are opportunities to enroll in honors selectives in the first 2 years. Honors selectives are for credit and published on the student transcript.
Criteria to join the Honors Program:
1) Students joining at the start of Term 2 must earn a grade of ≥90.00% in Term 1
2) Students joining at the start of Term 3/4must have earned a grade of ≥87.00% in previous terms.
3) In order to remain in the program for the duration of the Basic Sciences, students must maintain grades of ≥87.00% each academic term. (note: for Term 3 and Term 4, grades for these terms will be reviewed cumulatively).
Criteria for the Basic Sciences Honors Program certificate:
- ≥87.00% performance each academic term (Terms 1-5)
- Successful completion of the Honors 1 and Honors 2 selectives
- Meets all professionalism and course compliance standards
- Is in good standing in the university community and has upheld all standards of the honor code
The Basic Sciences Honors certificates will be awarded at the end of the second year for all students successfully completing the Basic Sciences Honors Program. The Honors selectives are part of the criteria for students in the Basic Sciences Honors Program and will show as earned credits on a student’s transcript but they are non-degree bearing coursework.
Additional opportunities
A number of opportunities will be available for Basic Sciences Honors Program student. Some examples include certificate for point-of-care ultrasound, sponsorship for conference attendance, sponsored short-term research opportunities in hospitals in the USA and networking opportunities with Residency Program Directors.
SGU Wisdom
SGU SOM is the first medical school in the world to use a safe digital platform designed to help Advisors and other SGU leaders understand what matters to students. It also provides a secure way for students to learn a little bit about each other. This platform is called SGU Wisdom, and it’s all about listening.
Students are required to go to SGU Wisdom, sign up, and complete the My Self section, it takes less than 10 minutes.
Completion of SGU Wisdom is mandatory. Failure to complete it by the specified deadline may lead to loss of professionalism points.
There is a section called Snapshots for Colleagues (a section that other students can access) and Snapshots for Leaders (a little more about students that advisors and other leaders can access) in real time. It’s a great opportunity to make the SGU community even stronger.