The Office of Student Affairs

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The Office of Student Affairs
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Advisory Deans
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The Four As of the OSA

• Available
• Advocate
• Assess
• Advice / Counseling

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Available

• Stop by the OSA in
• Suite 100 anytime!
• JoMo 24/7
• Emergency Situations
• No problem is too small

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Advocate

• Healthy Learning Environment
• Letters of Recommendation from Advisory Deans
• Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE)
• Residency Application Matching

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Assess

• Advisory Deans Meetings Every Two Weeks
• Academic Progress and Promotion

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Advice and Counseling

• Academic Advising
• Personal Counseling
• Liaison with CAPS
• Career Counseling
• Student Organizations
• New Initiatives

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Career Counseling Continuum

• Career Seminars
• Shadowing
• Introduction to Careers in Medicine
• Specialty Societies

• MS1 and MS2

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Career Counseling Continuum

• Career Counselors
• Two Class meetings on Residency Application
• Individual meetings with JoMo
• Career Night organized by the graduating class
• Departmental Residency Application Meetings

MS 3
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Career Counseling Continuum

• Residency Interview Workshop
• Interview Skills Workshops
• Individual meetings with faculty for departmental
  letters of recommendation
• The Match

• MS 4

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Career Counseling Continuum

• Programs on the Student Portal
• www.med.upenn.edu/student

• Link to AAMC Careers in Medicine
• Residency Application Step by Step
• Match statistics and lists
• from previous years

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Special Events

• Orientation
• Graduation
• Match Day
• Class Meetings

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Medical School Houses

• Helen O. Dickens House
• John Morgan House
• Jonathan E. Rhoads House
• Francis C. Wood House

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Medical School Houses

• Purpose
• To create smaller communities of students across
  all classes
• To foster interaction, peer advising and
  camaraderie among students
• To organize community service, social and
  educational events

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Medical School Houses

• Four houses made up of students from all classes
• Students are divided according to Advisory Dean
  assignments
• Combined Degree Students are assigned to one of
  the four houses

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Medical School Houses

• Small Group Dinners with MS2, MS3 and MS4
  Housemates at Restaurants
• Tuesday night 600 pm
• Sign Up online through your House Google Doc
  beginning this afternoon.

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The Office of the Registrar
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Office of the Registrar

•  OASIS and University Course Scheduling
• Requests for Documentation (loan deferments,
  letters of good standing, transcripts, etc)
• UPHS accounts (Medview, Sunrise, Networks IDs,
  email)

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Office of the Registrar

• HIPAA Training/Child Abuse Clearance
• Locker Assignments
• Black Keys