Focus on your health
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- Review The WELL Office for more information.
- Engage in activities that you enjoy that promote your health
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Learn about yourself, your interests, and your values
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- Complete the Career in Medicine (CiM) self-assessment before a meeting with the Career Advisor, especially the MSPI and the PVIPS quizzes.
- Think about the answers you gave while answering the questionnaires by looking at the results.
- After identifying your interests, values, personality, and skills, as well as preferences (e.g., practice setting, patient type), consider each of these elements and prioritize them. Not only will you be better able to assess specialties, you’ll also be more confident when applying to residency programs and future jobs as well as accepting offers if you’ve already thoroughly considered what's most important to you (from CiM)
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Broaden your career horizons
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- Attend career panels offered in the curriculum of the medical program.
- Learn about specialties and career paths.
- Formulate two or three questions that you would particularly like to ask physicians during career panels.
- Attend student activities from one of the interest groups.
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Meet the Career Advisor
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- Take an appointment.
- To prepare for this meeting, please complete the Career in Medicine questionnaires and then save the results to discuss and build your profile.
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Try new things
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- Join clubs, socialize with peers, sit on committees, exercise leadership, volunteer or take part in research projects, for example.
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Review the Career Planning Website
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- Take a look at the main pages of this site to get a sense of the career planning timeline, and to make plans.
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Take French lessons, if needed.
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When possible and safe, go on trips, participate in an exchange program, internships locally or internationally.
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Volunteer or take paid employment.
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Rest and spend time with your family and take care of your friendships.
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