Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine Mentoring and Teaching Opportunities

Capstone mentors supervise a student's self-directed capstone project in a clinical, lab or community setting. This individual provides students with constructive feedback as they progress through the capstone experience with a minimum of one face-to-face meeting per semester. Mentors also must complete a bi-annual review of the student’s project progress report via an online platform. Mentors are responsive to the needs of students, faculty and school leadership to ensure a high-quality capstone project and mentor/mentee experience for Quinnipiac medical students.

If you are interested in becoming a capstone mentor to a Netter student, please complete the registration form below.

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Year three of a student‘s education comprises in-depth clinical experiences in medicine, surgery, psychiatry, primary care, pediatrics and obstetrics and gynecology where students complete required six-week clerkships in each of six core specialties. During these immersive experiences, Netter students spend time in patient care settings with clinical faculty preceptors, who train them on their particular specialty and coach them to become skilled patient-centered physicians.

If you are interested in being a preceptor, please submit your CV and a brief description of your interests to netterappointments@qu.edu.

Through electives in a variety of specialties and subspecialties, fourth year students have the opportunity to expand their clinical knowledge and also explore diverse career possibilities. Netter electives and required sub-internships for MD students are provided as two-, three- or four-week educational experiences, in both inpatient and outpatient venues. The participating clinical faculty play a key role in the development of medical students into outstanding physicians. Fourth year sub-internships, core requirements in emergency medicine and critical care, as well as electives, are an essential component of the MD curriculum.

If you are interested in being a preceptor, please submit your CV and a brief description of your interests to netterappointments@qu.edu.

A medical student home (MeSH) preceptor is a physician who is comfortable supervising a first-year or second-year medical student as they practice interviewing, physical examination and procedural skills in the physician’s ambulatory office setting. Preceptors are expected to work with a Netter student one half-day per week on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon from August through March (year two) or October through May (year one). This is a great opportunity to get to know a student incredibly well over a two-year longitudinal relationship and to serve as his/her first mentor in medicine. Netter students spend more time with their MeSH preceptor than any other single faculty member over the duration of their medical school training.

If you are interested in participating in the MeSH program, please contact Adam Weinstein, Associate Professor of Medical Sciences and Assistant Dean for Clinical Curriculum, at adam.weinstein@qu.edu. Please attach your CV and a brief description of your interests in your email.

Instructors are needed to assist the first-year students in the anatomy lab. These individuals will help the students with dissection, identifying structures and explaining clinical correlations. Individuals with surgical, anatomical or dissection experience will be most successful in this role. Anatomy lab instructors are needed in all of our blocks (Musculoskeletal-Integument, Head and Neck Anatomy, Heart-Lung-Kidney and Gastro-Intestinal, Endocrine, Genitourinary and Reproductive). Instructors may teach in a single block or in multiple blocks.

If you are interested in becoming an anatomy lab instructor at Netter, please submit your CV and a brief description of your interests to netterappointments@qu.edu.

Block directors are responsible for developing the curriculum for a particular organ system or foundational basic science (cellular and molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, etc.) block in conjunction with a medical science faculty co-director. This includes, but is not limited to, developing the goals for the block, organizing the learning events, enlisting faculty to teach and assuring overall quality standards within the block, participation in exam construction, and being present on campus for block activities (typically 8 a.m.–noon, Monday through Friday). Block directors are also members of the course committee and grading committees. Block directors should have clinical experience related to the block they organize.

If you are interested in becoming a block director at Netter, please submit your CV and a brief description of your interests to netterappointments@qu.edu.

Each student is assigned a career adviser at the start of third year. This adviser helps the student navigate clinical clerkships, clarify career goals, and craft a strategic fourth year schedule; reviews personal statements and CVs; and supports the application to residency. The career adviser position is a stipended position.

If you are interested in becoming a career adviser at Netter, please submit your CV and a brief description of your interests to somstudentaffairs@quinnipiac.edu.

Concentration directors provide counseling and capstone project oversight as needed, and deliver concentration curricular content to medical students through small group facilitation, presentations and office hours. These individuals provide assessment of the students in this section of the Scholarly Reflection and Concentration/Capstone course through evaluation of student performance in small groups. Concentration directors must be responsive to the needs of students, faculty and school leadership to ensure a high-quality concentration capstone education experience for Quinnipiac medical students. Concentration directors must have expertise in one of the following concentrations:

• Basic, Translational and Clinical Science Research
• Global, Public, and Community Health
• Health Communications
• Health Policy and Advocacy
• Healthcare Management and Organizational Leadership
• Interprofessional Education and Practice
• Medical Education
• Medical Humanities

If you are interested in becoming a concentration director at Netter, please submit your CV and a brief description of your interests to nettercapstone@qu.edu.

Content experts teach the first- and second-year medical students. Teaching duties may involve include giving a lecture, facilitating a small group, or leading a large group of students through content in the collaborative classrooms.

While we invite content experts from all fields interested in teaching to apply, the following content areas are currently of greatest need:

• Cardio-Pulmonary Medicine
• Musculoskeletal Disease
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Pathology
• Psychiatry

If you are interested in becoming a content expert at Netter, please submit your CV and a brief description of your interests to netterappointments@qu.edu.

A foundations of clinical care (FCC) preceptor is a physician or other health care provider who is comfortable teaching students how to perform a full-body physical examination. This individual works with a co-preceptor and a group of eight first-year or second-year students to teach basic clinical skills over the course of the academic year. Preceptors are expected to teach their small group weekly on Thursday mornings from August through March (year two) or August through May (year one). This is a great opportunity to really get to know a group of students well and serve in a mentorship and coaching capacity that students will remember throughout their careers.

If you are interested in becoming an FCC preceptor at Netter, please submit your CV and a brief description of your interests to netterappointments@qu.edu.

Problem-based learning (PBL) facilitators assist a small group of 7-8 second-year medical students who need to work through a clinical case each week. PBL facilitators attend weekly training sessions to become familiar with the cases that will be covered. PBL facilitators handle one or more blocks (4–6 weeks) a year. A typical schedule of teaching is Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8–10 a.m.

If you are interested in becoming a PBL facilitator at Netter, please submit your CV and a brief description of your interests to netterappointments@qu.edu.

Specialty advisers provide information about their medical specialties and perspectives on work-life integration and share tips on applying to residency or succeeding as residents in those fields. These are informal positions – we provide students with a list, sorted by specialty, of individuals who would like to serve in this capacity. We strongly urge each student to connect with a specialty adviser as soon as they identify a field of interest.

If you are interested in becoming a specialty adviser at Netter, please submit your CV and a brief description of your interests to somstudentaffairs@quinnipiac.edu