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UAMS: Membership Spotlight
- Provide reliable, longitudinal academic and career counseling for UAMS COM medical students
- Provide opportunity for development of a strong mentor-mentee relationship between faculty and medical students
- Provide consistent advising for the residency selection and matching process for all students
- Provide formal opportunities for peer advising/mentoring (each academic house will have students from all four classes)
History:
UAMS Academic House program was implemented in 2016.
Activities:
Primary activities are para-curricular and include the following:
- Required meetings with Academic House advisor once/semester
- Three required All-Academic House meetings focusing on topics chosen by the students (choosing a career, the interview trail, etc)
- Required USMLE Step 1 Prep Course where students must report to their AH Basic Science faculty weekly to discuss their study progress and challenges
Associate Dean, Student Affairs and Academic House Director [email protected]
- Big-Little “Sibling” program: M2s serve as big siblings with M1. This program starts the summer before medical school where we pair M1s based on interests, family situation, etc with M2s. This all occurs within the Academic House structure.
- Academic House Olympics: Each September, we welcome the freshmen by hosting an All-Academic House Olympics event. A large park is rented out, and students sign up for sporting and spirit events (from tug-of-war to hula
Student Activities/involvement:
- Vuk, J., McKee, S., Mendiratta, P., Tariq, S. “A better learning community: mixed-methods reveal medical student preferences with implications for learning community design and implementation”. Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development. July, 2021
- Karina Clemmons, Sara Tariq, James Graham, Jason Mizell, Annlee Taylor Glass-Hicks, Purushottam Thapa. “What do Medical Student Actually Want from Learning Communities? A Comprehensive Needs Assessment”. MedEd Publish, 2020.
- Jackson, M, Tariq, SG, Kaplan, E. Nurturing a Culture of Growth in a Climate of Safety for Learning Community Faculty, LCI, Kansas City, KS. 2019
- Jackson, M, Tariq, SG, Osterberg, L. Promoting Inclusion within Learning Communities, LCI. New York, September, 2018
- J.S., Clemmons, K. R., Tariq, S. G., Graham, J., Glass, A., & Thapa, P. B. (2018, September) Medical students’ expectations for wellness promotion in LCs. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Learning Communities Institute (LCI), New York, NY. *LCI Research Poster Award, 2018
Aal clinical skills curriculum delivered in learning communities. Learning Communities Institute Conference. San Diego, CA. 2015.
*Colbert-Getz JM, Anderson K, Lamb S, Roussel D. Learning communities, clinical skills and core EPAs: Strategies for deploying learning communities to ensure clinical skills milestones achievement across a four-year curriculum. Workshop. Learning Communities Institute Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN. 2014.
*UUSOM co-author, but not limited to UUSOM students or faculty as participants
Other Scholarship – Posters
Colbert-Getz JM, Roussel D, Shaffer K, Sells L, Zinkhan G. Early reactions toimplementing a program of performance assessment by EPA (programmatic assessment) for clinical skills instruction in years 1-2. Poster session presented at Western Group on Education Affairs Meeting, Denver, CO. 2018.
Colbert-Getz JM, Anderson K, Glasgow T, Zinkhan G, Roussel D. Doesdelivering clinical skills instruction with learning communities increase OSCEperformance at the end of year 2? Poster session presented at An International Association for Medical Education Conference, Barcelona, Spain. 2016.
Glasgow T, Anderson K, Roussel D, Lamb S, Colbert-Getz JM. Clinical methods curriculum: An innovative four-year learning community model for teaching and assessing entrustable professional activities (EPAs). Poster session presented at Association of American Medical Colleges Medical Education Meeting, Baltimore, MD. 2015.
*Shochet RB, Keeley M, Colbert-Getz JM. Assessing qualities of the learningenvironment at two medical schools with learning communities. Poster session presented at Learning Communities Institute Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN. 2014.
*UUSOM co-author, but not limited to UUSOM students or faculty as participants