UTS offers a confidential counselling service to help with a wide range of personal, psychological, study-related and administrative difficulties. If you have urgent situations after-hours, please use the emergency contacts list. Our services include individual and couples counselling, group work and workshops.
In addition, UTS's Equity & Diversity Unit offer advice and support around your rights and responsibilities including discrimination and harassment, as well as UTS policy, legislation and procedural guidelines. They also provides links to mental health and wellbeing information and resources. You can also...
In addition, UTS's Equity & Diversity Unit offer advice and support around your rights and responsibilities including discrimination and harassment, as well as UTS policy, legislation and procedural guidelines. They also provides links to mental health and wellbeing information and resources.
Career counseling services include: Career counseling is more than figuring out what job you may want. It gets at bigger questions like, who am I, what do I want, and what is fulfilling to me?
The Associate Dean serves as an advisor, helping students to understand where they stand in relation to their field and answer questions about away rotations, application and match timelines and their fourth-year schedules. Students are also encouraged to talk with departmental faculty advisors for further guidance on applying to a given specialty and/or program.
Informally, all faculty members serve as advisors to students on specialty selection, but most clinical departments have faculty members who serve a more formal role as career advisors. These faculty members are familiar with current trends within their specialty and can provide up to date information and guidance to students. The departmental faculty advisors sponsor specialty interest groups for early career exploration, provide advice on elective selection and residency program application, and participate in various programs throughout the year in partnership with the Office of Student Affairs.
The Office of Student Affairs sponsors career advising events for students at various stages of their academic careers. In the first year, at the new student orientation/retreat, students are provided access to the AAMC Careers in Medicine website and attend a session lead by a fourth-year medical student on how to utilize the program, including the various assessment tools. The resources and tools available through the AAMC Careers in Medicine website are promoted throughout the second year in Veritas meetings and activities as well. Several events during a student’s third year, such as Career Day and the Fourth Year Orientation, give students the opportunity to interact one-on-one with Program Directors from various specialties to further refine their career options. Residency Roundup, another third-year event sponsored by the Alumni Association, gives students the opportunity to interact with Alumni in their prospective fields. In the final years of the program, students receive targeted coaching and more individual guidance as they apply to residency programs.
Students receive career advisement from their first day on campus. The career advisement system is an integrated network of faculty, staff, residents, and student peer mentors. Medical students have access to resources and individuals trained to assist them in their career options through multiple components and venues. The three major components of this system are the Veritas Program, the Office of Student Affairs, and the Departmental Faculty. Combined, these three components serve to comprehensively advise students about their physician careers.
The deans and directors in the Office of Student Affairs provide career advising to students through various services and regularly scheduled events:
Veritas is a school-wide vertical mentoring and advising system. This system allows faculty and advanced students to aid in student success. After admission, students are assigned to one of twenty Veritas groups. These groups are comprised of students from each class, along with faculty and resident mentors. Each group is assigned to one of five societies. These societies partake in on-campus events together throughout the medical school years.
The curriculum consists of coursework and practicum experiences for counseling in educational settings. Workshops and informal seminars are provided along with the more structured curriculum for student and faculty professional growth.
The Counselor Education program in the Department of Educational Psychology offers two concentrations: Higher Education Counseling and School Counseling. Both concentrations require courses in the history of counseling, modalities, and skills of counseling, career development, human development, assessment, research, and multicultural competence.
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Claire worked at UTSC and as a sessional College Professor at George Brown College prior to joining UTM Career Centre. She holds a Master’s Degree in Educational Counselling (now Counselling Psychology) with a focus on Career Counselling, from the University of Ottawa. Always being aware of the importance to lift as she climbs, Claire has volunteered as a Mentor to newcomers at CultureLink and the Newcomer Information Centre of the YMCA of Greater Toronto. She is currently on the Board of Directors of Skills for Change.
Taking action can boost your mental wellness and help you to see possibilities. Career Wellness is part of your overall wellness (see the graphic below). Believe it or not, there is still a lot you can do to figure out your career direction or find work even during this time of physical distancing.
CAPS offers a wide range of services to support your emotional well-being. Call (817)272-3671 to schedule a telehealth counseling visit or phone consultation, or (817) 272- 2771 to schedule a telehealth psychiatry visit.
CAPS offers brief, supportive phone consultations as a way for you to access goal-directed support and resources. Appointments are regularly available within 1-2 business days.
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