Office of Academic Resources and Support
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Our Mission
The mission of OARS is to facilitate academic success through:
- Structured attention to process and content enrichment for SOM students
- Individualized academic skills development on topics including but not limited to learning strategies, study skills, test taking, time management and test
anxiety
- Development, implementation, evaluation, and reporting of innovative academic interventions
- Identification, support, and facilitation of learning disabilities inquiries and requests for accommodations for all HSC students
Our Focus
- Study Habits, learning strategies
- Assessment concerns
- Test-taking strategies
- Test anxiety and concerns
- Time management, organization
- Problem-solving conceptualization
- Learning inventories administration & interpretation
- Developing individualized learning plans
- Clinical skills
- Communication skills
- Professionalism/Ethics skills
- Content tutoring by faculty and peer tutoring by medical students
- Other areas of concern
Contact Options
Make an appointment with a Learning Specialist
Make an appointment with a Content Expert
Make an appointment with a Critical Thinking Skills Expert
