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Emergency
Contacts:
When emergency care is needed, especially in potentially
life-threatening circumstances, or when students are experiencing
suicidal thoughts or exhibiting other signs of serious depression,
faculty and students are urged to immediately use the emergency
contact list. Please identify the emergency nature of your call.
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Counseling or Assessment
Faculty
or students requiring counsel, assistance, assessment, or other information
about the psychological, emotional, or academic aspects of adjustments
to medical school have the following resources available to them:
- UIC
Counseling Center
- Counseling
Services 312-996-3490
- Disability
Services 312-413-2183
- The Wellness
Center 312 413-2120
- Testing
Services 312-996-091
- Deans and
staff of the Office of Student Affairs
See contact
information on left navigation of OSA site
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Academic Skills
The
Academic Center for Excellence (ACE) offers
- Learning
and Study Strategies Assessment (individual and group)
- Workshops
on time management, critical reading, memory, test taking, anxiety
reduction, and overcoming self-defeating behaviors
- Individual
Academic Counseling and Consultation
Ace works closely
with staff in the
Urban Health Program (UHP) to assist with learning skills and
retention efforts designed to increase the number of students of
under represented minorities in the health professions.
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Tutoring Resources
Limited
group
tutoring,
by subject area,
is available to all students through the Office of Student Affairs.
Tutors are primarily students in the College of Medicine who have
demonstrated their proficiency in the subject area, their teaching
skills, and their interest in assisting fellow students. For more
information on these sessions watch the announcements on class list-serves
or contact OSA.
Early Intervention
Early intervention for all concerns
about academic performance is essential.
When academic, health, family, or personal problems arise, the pressures
of medical school can seem overwhelming.
With these problems are identified early, a variety of resources
can be marshaled to assist students in assessing the best possible
strategy for addressing their situation. Students who wait until
they have compounded their academic problems, are often left with
limited options. Please
contact OSA staff as soon as possible.
Some
options
that may need to be considered:
- Leave
of absence Both the timing and the length of a leave of absence
require careful consideration, since the Student Advancement and
Promotions Committees determine the conditions and timing of the
student's return. See Policies section of site for details. Up
to one year is possible upon approval of petition for one of the
following reasons:
- educational
research
- personal
or medical reasons
- to reconsider
a career in medicine
- Withdrawal.
Students in good standing with no outstanding course failures,
who withdraw to do educational research, may petition for readmission
to the College Promotions Committee up to one year following withdrawal.
See Policies section of site for details.
Faculty
advisors of students in academic difficulty may be asked to play
several roles:
- Students
with significant academic difficulty may be mandated by the Promotions
Committee to develop a study plan. Advisors may be asked to work
with their student advisee to develop an appropriate plan, to
sign off on the plan, and to monitor student progress.
- If
a student is either called before the Promotions Committee or
petitions Promotion Committee for a particular action, Students
will normally seek letters of support from the advisor.
- Students
facing being dropped from the College of Medicine are given the
opportunity to address the promotions committees (Student Advancement
Committee and College Committee on Student Promotions) in person.
Faculty advisors are asked to accompany the student to speak in
support of the student.
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Staff Advisors
Staff
throughout the College of Medicine are trained and available to
assist both faculty and staff in explaining and navigating the complexities
of COM policy and procedures.
Staff in the
Office of Student Affairs are available to both assist students
and to direct them to available resources within the college and
the university. See OSA Staff (left navigation of OSA site) for
contact information.
Faculty Advisor
Staff Assistance
Faculty interesting
in becoming an advisor should contact Monica
Mason-Hayden (312-355-1136)
in the Office
of Student Affairs
Faculty in
need of administrative assistance (requesting student files or
forms, requesting assistance in contacting students, etc.) should
contact : Monica
Mason-Hayden (312-355-1136)
in the Office of Student Affairs
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