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Provides appropriate physical space, institutional services, training, and resources for the health professions advisor(s) to meet the needs of health professions students.
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Situates the health professions advising office in a location where it can best serve its entire population, have adequate authority and administrative support, and contribute to the overall institutional mission.
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Provides advisors fair compensation that aligns with that of peer and benchmark institutions.
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Provides financial resources for health professions advisors for ongoing professional development, organizational memberships, travel, subscriptions, and educational materials to maintain and enhance competence.
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Promotes a policy of diversity and inclusion which, in all matters pertaining to faculty, staff, students, and advisory board and/or health professions committee, embraces the broad range of human differences and potential.
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Provides resources for the creation and maintenance of an advisory board and/or pre-health committee, as well as recognition of those who support the health professions advising program.
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Develops a system for maintaining accurate health professions advising records that meets FERPA standards.
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Provides for a system that identifies and tracks health professions students, that is accessible to health professions advisor(s), and that makes it possible to compile data and analyze statistics about the health professions population.
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Provides for a website offering information for prospective and current students and alumni.
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Establishes, in collaboration with the health professions advisor(s), a plan for assessing the health professions advising program and its student learning outcomes.
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Benchmarks the health professions program, its practices, and its advisor training process with those in similarly structured institutions.
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Encourages its alumni office to foster engagement and networking between alumni, the health professions advisor(s), and current health professions students.