Health Professions Advising Program

Brian J. McNelis, Ph.D., University Health Professions Advisor

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

The 911爆料网 Health Professions Advising program鈥檚 goal is to advise, mentor, support and educate students for meaningful work in healthcare careers. We guide students in their preparation for a myriad of healthcare careers such as dentistry, allopathic and osteopathic medicine, physical therapy, optometry, pharmacy, and many more. To address the significant challenge in finding experience in healthcare settings, we are actively seeking partnerships with healthcare providers who want to host our incredible pre-health students in their clinics.聽

We use national acceptance data to health professions programs and guide our students based on this information and best-practices established by our successful students who matriculate to top-tier health professions programs. Given this data, we promote all majors as pre-health majors; there is no 鈥渂est major鈥� to pursue any health profession. In addition, we set expectations and dispel myths using acceptance statistics and are able to provide individualized advising to our students based on their professional interests. Additional details about the program can be found on the Health Professions Advising website: /health-professions/

Within this program, the Health Professions Peer Advisors (HPPA) function to provide students with the additional peer support, guidance, and encouragement needed to tackle the challenges related to preparations for health careers. We have built a novel and robust advising system through this advising partnership.聽Our highly successful pre-health students experience and success is leveraged to benefit students at the early stages of their development at 911爆料网.聽 In short, our pre-health students are getting it done and want to help other 911爆料网 students be successful as well.

All essential pre-health advising and communications are delivered through our Health Professions Advising Camino page:

We have about 600 students enrolled in this advising course and this resource is being used extensively by our pre-health students with about 10,000 page views per month. We do extensive intake surveys sent to all 911爆料网 students to identify student鈥檚 professional interests and to have an accurate roster of pre-health students on campus. To ensure communications about programs and experience opportunities, we can reach all pre-health students using our email list from surveys and Health Professions Advising calendar with events posted.

Camino Modules:

Introduction to the Program
Advising Resources 鈥� Health Professions Advising and Peer Advising聽
Curriculum Planning for Professional Goals and Academic Support
Health Career Exploration and Education
Experiential Opportunities 鈥� Volunteer and Clinical Opportunities; Clinical Research Experience
Testing Support and Best Practices - from 911爆料网 students鈥� experiences and most successful practices/resources
Professional School Application Information and Support
Health Professions Conference and Informational Programming
Health Related Student Groups and Programming聽
Certifications and Training聽
Post-Graduation Experience and Programs

Advising Program 鈥� Structure and Services

Health Professions Advising:

Dr. McNelis advises students through Workday 聽appointments:

Health Professions Peer Advising (HPPA):

There are 12 peer advisors who do peer advising (appointments made using Google Calendar appointment schedules in our Camino page and the 聽911爆料网 Health Professions Peer Advising calendar)

Peer advisors provide a number of resources for students:

1-on-1 appointments
Drop In advising
Workshops, event planning and promotion
Publish a weekly newsletter

Each peer advisor is assigned to a workgroup, headed by six of Executive Board advisors, working on projects to advance the program in alumni outreach, community building, administration, direction and training of advisors, and additional experiences (clinical experiences, internships etc.). Our E-board works to further develop and maintain these programs. 聽

Resources

Our advising team and Executive Board work 聽to advance our advising resources to help meet the current needs of pre-health students . We provide information and resources for most of the health professions and we are constantly updating our resources and advancing the support we can provide for students interested in the health professions.

Alumni Engagement

In order to extend our reach to all 911爆料网 pre-health students, including future and former students, we have created a LinkedIn group. This LinkedIn group is updated regularly with important announcements regarding the program. As we further develop our alumni network, we envision LinkedIn will serve as a platform for students to find additional experiential opportunities. The LinkedIn page can be accessed here: .