What exactly is a health professions advisor? Brooks (2023) states that “A health professions advisor provides support for students on their unique health professions path”. Aside from 1:1 advising, which many times limit the number of students that can be seen due to the workload capacity per advisor, group advising or a for credit class can help reach more students.

Throughout this course, you will gain knowledge and understanding of the importance of advising course, NAAHP’s best practices, and how to build advising courses.

 Objectives

1. Understanding the impact of a hands on workshop, group advising or for credit class.
2. Self-assess development of the best practices from NAAHP
3. Develop a plan for needed programming
1. Group Advising Course
2. Group Advising Workshop
3. For credit Advising Class
4. Asynchronous Advising Class

Brooks, E. (2023) What You Need to Know About Health Professions Advisors. PAEA. https://paeaonline.org/resources/public-resources/paea-news/what-you-need-to-know-about-health-professions-advisors

Huacuja-LaPointe, M., & Voss, A. (2016) High Touch, Low Time: The Art of Group Advising. 2016 NAAHP National Conference

King, N. (2000). Advising students in groups. Academic advising: A Comprehensive handbook. (p. 236). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Ryan, B. (2009) Integrating Group Advising into a Comprehensive Advising Program. NACADA. https://nacada.ksu.edu/Resources/Academic-Advising-Today/View-Articles/Integrating-Group-Advising-into-a-Comprehensive-Advising-Program.aspx