In this issue:
- Please complete the ISA Survey if you haven’t already by tomorrow, Friday, Nov. 1
- Please fill out Career Advising’s Interview Updates survey by Monday, Nov. 4
- Compliance deadline for data stewardship is Nov. 15, 2024
- Expanded MS4s: How to schedule your 4th year Career Planning Appointment
Please complete the ISA Survey if you haven’t already by tomorrow, Friday, Nov. 1
Here is a message from ISA Committee Co-Leads Nicholas Popp (MS4), Sarah Busch (MS4), Ben Henderson (MS3), Matt Lumsden (MS2) and Lila Faulhaber (MS2):
Here is a message from ISA Committee Co-Leads Nicholas Popp (MS4), Sarah Busch (MS4), Ben Henderson (MS3), Matt Lumsden (MS2) and Lila Faulhaber (MS2):
Many of you continued to complete the survey over the past week, which helped raise the response rate to 71% (+11% over last week). Montana students are the first to reach the goal of 80% by recording 86%, followed by Wyoming (79%), Spokane (77%), Alaska (76%), Idaho (69%), and Seattle (63%).
All of us on the Independent Study Analysis team and the medical school administration are deeply grateful for your engagement with this important survey. We know this is a very busy time for you.
Please look for the survey link in emails from eqi@uw.edu with the subject line “[Reminder] We need you to complete the ISA survey!”
The survey remains open until Friday, Nov. 1, in order to give the rest of you the opportunity to add your voices. Once the survey closes, we will do random drawings of gift cards (See the table below for the distribution of gift cards).
Thank you very much for your enthusiastic participation!
Gift Card Incentives: There will be one $500 gift card for drawing from all four cohorts.
| Campus | # of Gift Cards ($10) if Campus Response Rates Reach 60% | # of Gift Cards ($50) if Campus Response Rates Reach 60% | Additional # of Gift Cards ($30) if Campus Response Rates Reach 80% | Total # of Gift Cards |
| Seattle | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| Spokane | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Wyoming | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Alaska | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Montana | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Idaho | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Total | 16 | 6 | 17 | 39 |
According to the UW policy, student employees (e.g., tutors, research assistants, hourly workers, etc.) cannot receive a gift card. If you win the raffle as a student employee, we will send alternative items of the same value from Amazon.
Please fill out Career Advising’s Interview Updates survey by Monday, Nov. 4
The Career Advising team asks students who will be graduating in 2025 to fill out the first of three Interview Updates surveys that the team is sending you during interview season. You should have received the first survey via email on Tuesday, Oct. 29.
Your update is very important as it helps the team and your Specialty Advisor know how your interview season is going and how best to support you.
The team knows that this survey may cause anxiety for some of you. Career Advising’s goal, along with your Specialty Advisor, is to be proactive in supporting you during interview season.
Please complete the survey by 10:59 pm AK, 11:59 p.m. PT, 12:59 a.m. MT.
- The team knows that there are specialties that have future universal interview release days. However, we ask all of you to respond to this first survey. If youapplied to Prelim or Transitional Year (TY) programs, please complete this first survey.
- Many common questions about interview season are answered on the Interview Season FAQs webpage. If your question is not listed, please email medadv@uw.edu.
- The Career Advisors are here to support you during interview season so please don’t hesitate to reach out to them and let them know how you are doing, along with any questions or concerns.
- You can make an appointment here.
- Join office hours on this Zoom link. Office hours are Monday through Friday at 11 a.m. AK, noon PT, 1 p.m. MT.
Compliance deadline for data stewardship is Nov. 15, 2024
UW Medicine requires all medical students to learn how to properly safeguard confidential information and comply with standards for personal accountability for data stewardship. All students, including concurrent degree/MSTP students and students on a leave of absence, are required to maintain compliance. Please complete the UW Privacy, Confidentiality, and Information Security Agreement (PCISA) requirement in the To-Do List of your UW71 CastleBranch account [mycb.castlebranch.com]. The deadline is Nov. 15, 2024.
Read everything you need to know to comply with the requirement in this full announcement: https://education.uwmedicine.org/blog/2024/10/29/data-stewardship-compliance-deadline/.
ICYMI: Important info for students entering Match 2026
Please schedule your 4th Year Career Planning Appointment with your career advisor from now through December. You can select that appointment type in the Career Advising Scheduling system (CAS).
Plan to spend a minimum of 2-3 hours reading through the content and taking the prep steps. Think of this as a mini-learning module that will set you up for success in your E&F career planning and your residency application.
Prep Steps to Complete Prior to Your Appointment:
Read ALL the Career Planning for 4th Year Guide webpage resources including the summer and fall PowerPoints and Specialty Guides Clinical Phase Planning content and follow the steps outlined.
Next:
- Download and complete a draft of your Clinical Phase Planning Worksheet (found on the Career Planning for 4th Year Guide webpage)
- Upload your Planning Worksheet to your meeting in CAS so we can review it together. Appointments cannot be modified within 24 hours so you can email your worksheet to your career advisor if needed
If you have experienced any of the following, please schedule your 4th Year Career Planning appointment from now through early November.
- Finishing your Patient Care Phase 6-12 weeks after the standard end time of March 2025
- Foundations course fail(s)
- Step 1 or Step 2CK fail. Low Step 1 or Step 2CK score. Or you have not taken Step 1 yet
- Clerkship exam fail or clerkship fail
- 2 or more passes in Patient Care Phase
- Pass in a specialty of interest
- Expansion (non-research related) or leave of absence
If you want to look further ahead, visit the Residency Application Timeline and Residency Application Components on the Applying to Residency page.
Please come to office hours or email your career advisor if you have quick questions in the meantime. They are here to support you in this process!
Here is a link to the previous newsletter for MS4s.