To our new mentors, welcome to the first week of POM-1! We send out our most sincere thanks for your help with this very important course.

To our returning mentors, welcome to you as well, and we again thank you for your ongoing support to this course and our students. It’s great to realize that many of our mentors have been with course since it’s beginning, and some even served in the course preceding it. Despite all the challenges in a course as large as POM-1, you should know that your work is consistently highly rated and highly valued by our students. When you choose to return as a mentor, you directly contribute to the continuity and evolving knowledge of our faculty, which in turn assures the quality of the experience for each new class of students.

This is the first reminder you will receive. We send these weekly, usually ever the weekend, and they include the upcoming week's schedule, as well as any changes.
Please take a moment to read them as you may see updates to the schedule or changes within the course that could affect your week.

Large Group Sessions
Monday, 8/18 10:10              Communication as a Discipline, Claudia Allen, PhD
Monday, 8/18 11:10              Interviewing Skills-1, Christine Peterson, MD

Small Group - Autobiography session

Mentors should have arranged for groups to meet for the autobiography session. Let the POM office know if you need help with this.

You should remind your students to select a liaison to represent the group to the course directors at the "Liaison Lunches."  The first luncheon will be held in October. They will be emailed the date, time and location.  We ask that the liaisons speak with your group the week of the luncheon to be able to bring any concerns, questions, etc... to the course directors and staff of the Practice of Medicine-1 office.  Please e-mail your liaison name and contact information to robinstevens@virginia.edu. 

Practice of Medicine -1 Room Assignments
Fall 2008

Tuesday Groups/Mentors Location
Group 1 Balogun/Zimmerman Library 1330
Group 2 Seto/Haines Library 1332
Group 3 Mendelsohn/Humbertson Library  1334
Group 4 Wolf/Newberry OB/Gyn conference room
Group 5 Hayden/Waterfield MR4- Room 5101
Group 6 Schectman/Hawkes MR5- 3rd floor conference room
Group 13 Veber/Capobianco MR5-1st floor conference room
Group 14 McCoy/Short Biomedical Ethics conference room
Group 15 Alson/Ellsworth Library 1226
Group 16 Stiltner/Moore MR5-2nd floor conference room
Group 17 Reiser/Hoffman Emergency Medicine conference room
Group 18 Reed/Lutterbie/
Williams-Rosenthal Library 1336

Thursday Groups/Mentors Location
Group 7 Bargmann/Shepherd Library 1226
Group 8 Green/Triana Library 1332
Group 9 Ramirez/Chastain Student Health Room G010
Group 10 Warniment/Putnam Family Medicine conference room
Group 11 Hellems/Martindale Library 1336
Group 12 Schorling/Jaeger-Landis MR5 2nd floor conference room
Group 19 Brown/Best MR4 Room 2102
Group 20 Goodman/Bradley Blake/Fontaine
Group 21 Ferguson/Janzen MR5 3rd floor conference room
Group 22 Courtney/Potts MR5 1st floor conference room
Group 23 Gypson/Lorntz Library 1334
Group 24 Davis/Karnes Library 1330

You will also be able to find the course schedule, contact information, etc. on our course website located at http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/courses/pom1/.  We encourage you to become familiar with the website – students often ask questions about what is there – (and sometimes what isn’t).

If you have any questions, concerns, etc...always feel free to contact the staff of the POM-1 office and/or course directors. 

Walt Davis
Seki Balogun
Robin Stevens
Karen Warnecke