Note: The following information was e-mailed to interest group members on 7-12-04.

To: Health Professions Advising Interest Group Members
From: Ruby Mason, Chair

Greetings to all of you interested in the health professions. My name is Ruby Mason and I am chair for the upcoming Health Professions Advising Interest Group session at the Cincinnati NACADA meeting. I would like to solicit your input and participation for this session. Bear in mind that the health professions include a number of specialties other than medicine.

First, would each of you send me the three top issues you are concerned with in advising students who wish to enter these fields? I propose to formulate our session around the most pressing issues.

Second, I would like to have several of you assist in putting the session together and carrying it out. These kinds of meetings are much more stimulating and informative when they are interactive and participatory.

Third, we are scheduled to have an information table at the Commission and Interest Group Fair held during the conference with handouts, brochures, posters, etc. that you prepare for your students and which you believe have worked for you and therefore may work for others. If any of you have materials you wish to share with others, please let me know what they are. Would you be willing to send me a copy? I have just returned from the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions meeting and am sorting what materials I can share with you.

It is important that we get our plans made now rather than later when the new academic year begins. If you could respond to me directly before July 30, at earsm@stanford.edu, I will be most appreciative.

Thanks,

Ruby S. Mason, MPA
Senior Advising Consultant
Chief Health Professions Advisor, Undergraduate Advising Programs
Sweet Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-3085
earsm@stanford.edu