Commitments of Geisinger Academic Affairs

• For GHS clinical campus medical students, we will confer with medical schools to screen and select students who have demonstrated adequate academic performance and appropriate personal characteristics.
• For non-clinical campus students, we will require prospective students to submit written applications, transcripts, and brief curriculum vitas that will be jointly reviewed with the prospective host department at GHS.
• Will provide a general orientation to GHS, to include policies and procedures governing medical students, all security accesses, and ID badges. This will occur on the morning of either the first day of the new academic year for clinical campus students or the first day of each clerkship period for non-clinical campus students.
• Assist in counseling and advising students who may encounter academic or personal difficulties.    
• Will administer all post-clerkship examinations, including NBME shelf-examinations, a universal GHS education experience assessment completed by students, and all post-clerkship assessments of training generated by each department. For clinical campus students, exit interviews and/or a group debriefing will be conducted at the end of the academic year.
• Advocate for appropriate structure and quality of all medical student learning experiences. Will provide assistance to clerkship directors, faculty, and the departments to facilitate the provision of medical student education that is student-centered, has a foundation built on adult learning principles, provides supervised patient care experiences appropriate for the student’s level of training, and uses transparent methods to evaluate students.
• Advocate for campus life experiences that are safe, comfortable, and stimulating.