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Career advising in family medicine: a theoretical framework for structuring the medical student/faculty advisor
Melissa Bradner1, Steven H Crossman, Allison A Vanderbilt
1Department of Family Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA 23298, USA. mkbradne@vcu.edu
Background:
There are unique challenges to recruiting students into the specialty of family medicine within academic medical centers.
Methods:
At Virginia Commonwealth University, we developed an advising framework to help students address institutional and personal obstacles to choosing family medicine as a career.
Results:
The role of a faculty advisor is not to direct the student to a career choice but rather to foster a mentor relationship and help the student come to his or her own realizations regarding career choice. The faculty advisor/medical student interview is conceptualized as five discussion topics: self-knowledge, perception, organizational voice, cognitive dissonance, and anticipatory counseling.
Conclusion:
This framework is intended to assist faculty in their efforts to encourage students to consider a career in family medicine.
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