LEARNING RESOURCE SERVICES
The Medical Education Learning Consultants are a team of experienced learning specialists committed to customized care for our learners. The Med Ed Learning Team specializes in learning services to meet learners' needs and support institutional and individual learner’s goals throughout the preclinical and clinical phases of the MD program.
ENHANCED LEARNING • IMPROVED TEST PERFORMANCE • CUSTOMIZED STUDY PLAN
The Medical Education Learning Consultant team is available throughout the preclinical and clinical phases of the MD program at no cost to the student. It provides assistance with strategies to enhance learning, test performance and mastery of material encountered in the curriculum. Further, it provides an online platform for our medical students to engage in, develop and optimize a customized study plan, study and test taking strategies, and resources to meet the student’s learning goals to include and not limited to evaluation of NBME customized and subject exams results, as well as student’s preparedness readiness for the USMLE Step 1, Shelf, and Step 2 Examinations.
For students desiring tutoring for specific content areas, the Med Ed Learning team can also provide experienced content tutors. The team is led by Dr. Smith at drstephanie@mededlearning.com who serves as the point of contact for our learners.
ADDITIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES
In addition, our course / clerkship faculty content experts are available to our students during the respective phases of the curriculum that the course/clerkship resides. As well as, the Office for Medical Education has an open-door policy for students in need of academic advising at any point of their medical program under the direction of Kelly Pagidas, MD, (email: Kelly.Pagidas@lsushs.edu).
Peer mentoring for academic guidance is also made available through Student Educators Academic Mentors (SEAM). Mentors provide guidance about study resources, elective study, and time management skills. Mentor/mentee pairs are established at critical time points of the curriculum to include during preparation for the USMLE Step exams that involve upper and lower classmen. The organization also hosts several resource events during the academic year to support the educational mission of the MD program.