Faculty Development

Advising and Mentoring Medical Students

About this module

Academic advising, career advising, and the mentoring relationships that carry students through — roles, boundaries, and documentation.

Related LCME elements

Every module states its LCME elements explicitly. Tags link to the SILME standards reference (March 2026 edition); element numbers and titles below are quoted from that data.

Element 11.1 Element 11.2 Element 4.5

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, participants will be able to:

• Distinguish advising, counseling, and mentoring roles
• Run an effective career-advising conversation
• Document advising while protecting confidentiality

Module outline

1. The advising ecosystem: who does what
2. Academic difficulty: early identification and referral
3. Career advising across all four years
4. Boundaries: when to refer to counseling
5. Records and confidentiality

Discussion prompts

• Where do students fall through the cracks in your advising system?
• How is advising workload recognized?

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