PATH Milestones
Medical school provides students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become a physician. To limit this process to the simple acquisition of new information is to focus on only one segment of the process of becoming a doctor.
Through the years at Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, students develop a new identity, gradually taking on the role of physician. The Student Affairs Office provides scaffolding for this critical transformation to take place. As students adopt relevant experiences, concepts, ideals, and goals as their own, they begin to truly become physicians. To help you organize and track your progress along your career path, we have structured all of our student-related services and activities around PATH.
What is PATH?
PATH encompasses the following key areas of professional development, complementing the academic curriculum:
P - Professional Identity Formation
Professional Identity Formation results from the gradual development of professional values, practices, and personal goals; the impact of decisions made; and the experiences in the clinical and nonclinical environment. The many student-run, faculty-supported, extramural activities at the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine complement the academic rigor and clinical opportunities, which allow students to develop their own unique professional identity.
A - Advancing to Residency through Mentoring and Advising
Throughout medical school, students connect with faculty and colleagues, learning to actively network and ask questions that will prepare them to Advance to Residency through Mentoring and Advising.
T - Techniques for Lifelong Learning, Resiliency, and Wellness
Students learn and hone Techniques for Lifelong Learning, Resiliency, and Wellness skills throughout their time in Medical School. The Student Affairs Office plays an important role in helping students to maintain balance and promote student wellness.
H - Humanism and Advocacy
The Medical School and the Student Affairs Office are committed to supporting students’ continued growth as compassionate physicians who practice Humanism and Advocacy in all they do.
PATH provides a flexible framework that will help you track your progress, set goals, capture experiences, reflect, plan for next steps, and more.
You have chosen to pursue a career that will be challenging, exciting, professionally rewarding, and deeply satisfying. Student Affairs is here to support, guide, and challenge you to grow and to develop into the physician that you want to become. We look forward to partnering with you as you find your own unique PATH to a fulfilling career.