Career Advising Specialist

WMU Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine is seeking a talented Career Advising Specialist. Working with the Assistant Dean for Career Development, this individual will serve as a part-time career advisor for a cohort of medical students to provide guidance and direction for residency and career planning. This may include facilitating student’s development of skills for informed self-assessment of their individual values, interests, talents, capabilities, and needs; helping students critically appraise data about their performance and translate those assessments into action plans for future learning and career planning; and facilitating student development that results in sound decision-making skills for career planning and specialty selection. Review with the student their Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) and residency application including their personal statement, curriculum vitae, and other materials used for residency applications. Advise students regarding their fourth-year elective choices and sequencing, with consideration of career choice, scheduling and logistical issues, and graduation requirements. 

Provide guidance and direction for residency and career planning that includes:

• Serving as a career advisor for a cohort of medical students across all four years of the curriculum.
• interpreting data from AAMC’s Careers in Medicine (CiM), NRMP’s Charting Outcomes in the Match, Texas Star, and other resources for career advising purposes.
• facilitating student’s development of skills for informed self-assessment of their individual values, interests, talents, capabilities, and needs.
• helping students critically appraise data about their performance and translate those assessments into action plans for future learning and career planning.
• facilitating student development that results in sound decision-making skills for career planning and specialty selection.
• advising students regarding their fourth-year elective choices and sequencing, with consideration of career choice, scheduling and logistical issues, and graduation requirements.
• review of Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) and residency application materials with students, including their personal statement, curriculum vitae, and other materials used for residency applications.
• collection and analysis of data for a Match risk assessment system for all WMed students.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE: 

• MD/DO, PhD, or equivalent degree required.
• Physicians with clinical responsibilities must maintain an active, unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Michigan, and maintain privileges at clinical sites corresponding with their clinical responsibilities. Other health care providers with clinical responsibilities must maintain the appropriate license for their profession, and maintain privileges at clinical sites corresponding with their clinical responsibilities.
• Must maintain a faculty appointment at the medical school.
• Record of accomplishment in medical student and/or resident career counseling and advising.

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS, CERTIFICATIONS: 

Physicians must have board certification in an American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) specialty.

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Creativity, vision, and the ability to conceive the long-term implications and impact of current events and trends.
• Ability to effectively educate and communicate (in written and oral form) with a variety of individuals and groups.
• Ability to produce results under pressure (time deadlines and multiple projects) with minimal direction.
• High level of interpersonal, management, and negotiating skills, as well as the ability to influence others to take appropriate action and/or reach their full potential.
• Strong interpersonal skills that engender cooperation and collaboration among groups with diverse interests and background.
• Analytical, conceptual, and innovative thinking with the ability to look beyond the present, and take a pragmatic approach to problem solving.

About Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed)

We are committed to excellence and health equity through transformative medical education, high-quality, patient- and family-entered care, innovative research, and community partnerships within a just culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Our vision is health equity for all in Southwest Michigan through innovation in the practice and study of medicine.

The medical school is a collaboration of Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo's two teaching health systems, Ascension Borgess and Bronson Healthcare. The medical school is a private nonprofit corporation supported by private gifts, clinical revenues, research activities, tuition, and endowment income. Building upon a $100 million foundational gift in 2011, WMed is a recipient of the Empowering Futures Gift, a philanthropic commitment of $300 million to support the mission of the medical school. WMed contributes to the economic vitality of Southwest Michigan through the services we provide as well as the creation of 1,600 new jobs and an annual estimated economic impact of $353 million in Kalamazoo and Calhoun counties.

WMed is fully accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the Higher Learning Commission. The medical school offers a comprehensive, innovative four-year Doctor of Medicine degree program and two Master of Science degree programs in Biomedical Sciences and Medical Engineering. We train physicians in 10 residencies and five fellowships accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. To support our educational mission, we have Joint Accreditation for interprofessional continuing education, which incorporates accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.

WMed Health is the clinical practice of the medical school with more than 300 providers offering comprehensive primary care and specialty services in several locations throughout Kalamazoo, Portage, and Battle Creek. The Department of Pathology faculty serve as the Office of the Medical Examiner for counties throughout Michigan and northern Indiana.

The W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus located in downtown Kalamazoo serves as the primary educational facility with faculty and administrative offices, student study and social spaces, team-based learning halls, a state-of-the-art Simulation Center accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, basic science research labs, as well as toxicology and forensic pathology labs.

WMed is building upon Kalamazoo’s century-long foundation of drug discovery and medical device development with a strategic investment in clinical, laboratory, community, and educational research. The Center for Immunobiology, Center for Clinical Research, Research Histology Lab, Innovation Center, and Human Research Protection Program contribute to the medical school’s advancement of knowledge through innovation and discovery. 

Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer of females, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans, and actively strives to increase diversity within its community. We provide a drug- and tobacco-free workplace.

EEO Minorities/Women/Disabled/Protected Veterans.