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Navigating Your Career Decision-Making Process: A Guide for Transitional Clerkships

This resource provides a structured approach to career decision-making for transitional clerkship students. It outlines essential features of an effective decision-making process, emphasizes the importance of critical factors that influence career choices, and introduces the Clerkship Learning Experiences Form (CLEF) for documenting reflections on clerkship experiences. The guide also addresses the significance of honest self-assessment, data acquisition, and personalized mentorship. By understanding these elements, students can navigate their specialties and make informed decisions by summer 2014.

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Navigating Your Career Decision-Making Process: A Guide for Transitional Clerkships

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  1. Introduction to your Career Decision-Making System Transitional ClerkshipApril 2013Calvin ChouMaxine Papadakis

  2. CDMS Timeline Transitional Clerkship, Today • Discuss features of an effective career decision-making process • Access “critical factors” and how they may be important to your career decision-making • Introduce the Clerkship Learning Experiences Form (CLEF: simple, brief, hopefully informative for your decision-making process, for you) Each Clerkship – Complete a CLEF Intersession 1, June 2013 • Session on professionalism • AC mentor meetings

  3. CDMS Timeline Intersession 2, October 2013 • Info sessions, career advising w/departments • Residency application information • Check in with your CLEFs MS4 planning, February 2014 • Complete elective planning form using data from CLEFs Intersession 3, April 2014 • Revisit everything from TC and IS 1-2 • Narrow your specialty choice (3-2-1) • Select career advisor(s) • Assemble CLEF data, all info for application

  4. D B 1 A 3 C 2 AC Meetings Career Decision-Making System: Timeline Clerkship Experience Form (CLEF) 2012-13 TC 2013-14 IS2 IS1 IS3 MS4 Elective Choice Form 2014-15 The Match

  5. Objectives of Session • Describe features of an effective career decision-making process • Diagnose your current level of differentiation • Describe the 4 stages of making a decision • Choose “critical factors” that are most important to you • Describe how your clerkship experiences in these factors affect your ultimate decision-making • Know your timeline: by summer 2014

  6. Objectives of Session • What we will do: Illuminate a decision-making process • What we will not do: Make the decision for you Gryffindology.

  7. Features of a “good” decision • Free: proactive, uninfluenced, timely • Data-Driven: accurate data • Individualized Process • “Circular” Process

  8. Where am I right now?

  9. Pluripotent Deciders

  10. Partially Differentiated Deciders • Primary care vs. specialty • Inpatient vs. outpatient • Procedural vs non-procedural • Interpersonal interaction types • Target population

  11. Fully Differentiated Deciders • Certain, data-driven, free • Certain, data-driven, not free: “constrained” • Certain, free, not data-driven: “premature closure” • Pseudo-certain, not free, not data-driven: “masquerade”

  12. Stages toward making your decision • Honest Self-Assessment • Data acquisition / career exploration • The choice • Implementation

  13. Honest Self-Assessment • The most important step • Each stage of decision-making involves another round of self-assessment • Consider: strength-based decision-making

  14. To get started • Consider critical factors that you believe are important in forming your career decision • Link: http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/RESIDENT/CareerCounseling/main_menu.htm • NOT a crystal ball, but could provide direction if you are truly and fully a stem cell

  15. Data Acquisition • Stage in which you take your experiences and frame them with your critical factors: this begins now! • *Ask how a specialty can fit your needs – not how you can fit into a specialty • Sometimes your critical factors may change – may be worth revisiting • Know the limitations of the data you have already acquired

  16. Clerkship Experiences Form (CLEF) • Simple format, <5 minute input • Link is on UCSF career decision-making website • These reflections are for you, but will also use in discussing career options with advisors, making 4th year plan, etc. • 3rd year can be a blur, so it can be valuable to write something down in real time during each experience

  17. Arriving at a Choice: Information and support Personal Mentors: people who know you well, can be truthful to you, and who can place your desires and needs over their own Career Advisors: http://meded.ucsf.edu/ume/career-advisors Advisory College Mentors Dr. Maxine Papadakis

  18. D B 1 A 3 C 2 AC Meetings Career Decision-Making System: Timeline Clerkship Experience Form (CLEF) 2012-13 TC 2013-14 IS2 IS1 IS3 MS4 Elective Choice Form 2014-15 The Match

  19. Objectives of Session • Describe components of an effective career decision-making process • Diagnose your current level of differentiation • Describe the 4 stages of making a decision: honest self-assessment, data acquisition, the choice, implementation • Know your timeline: by summer 2014

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