This document welcomes students to the University of Arizona College of Medicine and provides tips for success as a medical student. It emphasizes engagement, asking questions, supporting others, developing a growth mindset, reflecting on learning, and transitioning study skills. It outlines the curriculum, which includes distinction tracks and a scholarly project. It also discusses incorporating themes of health disparities, racism, and structural racism throughout the pre-clerkship and clerkship phases. Faculty are trained on bias and cultural competency is emphasized. Students are encouraged to reach out for support from administrators.

1. Welcome to University of Arizona Tucson
College of Medicine

2. You belong

3. Tip 1: We are better together – engagement is a core
skill set
Your experience makes us all better
•Share life, volunteer or career
experience in D&P, CRC, active learning

4. Tip 1: We are better together – engagement is a core
skill set
Your experience makes us
all better
•Share life, volunteer or
career experience in D&P,
CRC, active learning
Ask questions
•In active learning sessions
•In your Societies group
•In your study group
•By email

5. Tip 1: We are better together – engagement is a core
skill set
Your experience
makes us all better
• Share life, volunteer
or career
experience in D&P,
CRC, active learning
Ask questions
• In active learning
sessions
• In your Societies
group
• In your study group
• By email
Support others
• Help answering
questions
• if they have a
question, likely
someone else does
too

6. Shift our Mindsets

7. Medical school is at university, but it’s medical school
Shift from
“I learn well”
to
“I continue to grow about how I learn and
relate to others”

8. Step 1
Exams
Step 2
Match to
Residency

9. Step 1 Exams Step 2
Match to
Residency
Communication
Empathy
Social
determinants of
health
Service
Professionalism
Clinical
Competency

10. Tip 2a: Being a successful medical student
is a different skill set
Have a schedule
• Medical school
runs 8-5
• Plan wellness
Reflect on your
learning
• Psychologically
shifts you into
improving over
time
Engage
• Active learning
is 2 standard
deviations
higher memory
& retention
than studying
on your own!
Develop your
professionalism
• Clear
communication
& taking action
• Self-
compassion &
empathy
• Healthy striving

11. Seek Feedback
Ericsson, K. A. (2004). Deliberate practice and the acquisition and
maintenance of expert performance in medicine and related
domains. Academic medicine, 79(10), S70-S81.

12. • “Mistakes are how I learn and get better”
• “I can find ways to improve”
• “I can’t do that…yet”
A growth mindset

13. • Medicine has ambiguity
• You will need to think through many problems
• You can’t memorize it all: Information doubling time < 70 days
Growing Continously Is What We Do
Ericsson, K. A. (2004). Deliberate
practice and the acquisition and
maintenance of expert performance
in medicine and related
domains. Academic
medicine, 79(10), S70-S81.

14. Tip 2b: Transition your study skills
Former ways of studying:
1. Topic at a time
2. Re-reading notes
3. Hi-lighting notes
Transition to ways of studying
for effective, long-term
retention:
1. Set a study schedule that
reviews older material while
learning new material
2. Do practice questions to
identify what you don’t yet
know confidently and
accurately

15. We want your success

16. • Your story – your career to write
• Be curious
• How does science impact health care?
• What does it mean to shape health care?
• What have others done that has worked to change patient outcomes?
• Be empathetic
• How can we listen to the voices of our patients?
• What is health care like from someone else’s perspective?
• How can your small actions improve someone’s trust with the health care
system?
Your career is your curiosity

17. Empathy
Curiosity
Advocacy

18. Your Turn

19. • Open up MS Word, Pages, Google doc, etc
• Write yourself a letter (5 mins)
Who do you want to come to be?

20. • SAVE THIS LETTER
• Revisit at every transition, including graduation
• Are you meeting your expectations?
Who do you want to come to be?

21. Our Curriculum

22. The first 18 months (green)

23. Distinction Tracks + Scholarly Project
• Rural Health
• Community service
• Bilingual Medical Spanish
• Global Health
• Integrative Medicine
• Leadership & Innovation
• Medical Education
• Research
Distinction
Tracks
Scholarly
Project

24. Clerkship and Transition to Residency

25. • Incorporating health disparities, racism and other pathways themes
throughout preclerkship and clerkship
• Adding articles about structural racism in the elective Basic to
Advanced Sciences
• Included COVID-19 disparities in care within I&I block
• All preclerkship faculty trained about bias in teaching
• Added cultural competency Education Program Objectives
• Tagging racism in medicine across curriculum
• Adjusted assessment: Dropped % weighting of shelf; Adopted
Workplace Based Assessment
An Anti-Racist Curriculum is Key

26. Logging in to MedLearn
• Schedule  Medlearn
• Course notes, presentations, Zoom links, Panopto links  MedLearn
• Exam  Examplify

27. Logging in to MedLearn
Please complete the Examplify: Mock Exam Foundations – 2024
If you can’t get in, go to Q&A sessions on Tues/Wed/Thurs at noon

28. Your digital study space
• Set up your digital spaces today
• Use WiFi when needed
• 6 mins to get back on task
• Use native apps that synch to
cloud, download in advance
• WiFi hotspots around campus and
in HSL
• Have reference books nearby
Study Spaces

29. You belong!
Be better
Shift
Be advocates

30. Reach out – We’re here for your
success
Dr. Corral – corralj@medadmin.Arizona.edu
Jennifer Cogan – jenc@medadmin.Arizona.edu
Sonya Martyna-Seamans - srmartynaseaman@arizona.edu
Loren Drake - Drake, Loren - drake1@arizona.edu
Lindsey Hildebrand - hildebrandll@arizona.edu
Derek Honeyman - honeyman@arizona.edu