Welcome to the OCPD Career Counseling appointment scheduling page for Health Professional and clinically focused master’s students.
Our health careers team specializes in assisting current UCSF students and recent alumni (up until 6 months out from graduation) who are pursuing health professional clinical career paths with their career and professional development concerns and goals.
ATTENTION STUDENTS:
Starting 9/12/24, we’ll be using a new appointment scheduling system. If you’re familiar with our previous system, you’ll notice some changes, but rest assured, the process for booking appointments will remain very similar. We appreciate your understanding as we make this transition!
Questions? Please contact us at ocpd@ucsf.edu
List of current UCSF student populations we serve:
School of Medicine including:
- 4-year medical students, including gap year students
- MD/PhD students
*Please note, our team doesn’t serve UCSF medical residents, or staff interested in pursuing a medical degree. If you fall within these categories, please visit the Learning and Organizational Development website, or consult your speciality Residency Program Director for professional development resources and support.
School of Dentistry including:
- 4-year dental students
- International dentistry students
- DDS/MBA students
- Interprofessional health post-bac certificate program students
- Dental residents enrolled in a Post-Graduate Master’s program:
- Endodontics
- Public Health
- OMFS
- Orthodontics
- Pediatrics
- Periodontics
School of Nursing including:
- MEPN and MSN APRN students completing their coursework through 2026
- BSN-DNP Entry students
- Post-Master’s Entry to DNP students
*Please note, our team doesn’t serve PhD Nursing and Sociology Doctoral program students. All PhD students are seen by OCPD’s research team, who specialize in working with PhD and Life Science students and postdoctoral scholars pursuing research, academic and non-clinical career paths. If you fall within these categories, please visit (R-team Link) more information and support.
School of Pharmacy including:
- 3-year PharmD students
* Please note, our team doesn’t serve research oriented Master of Science or PhD degree students. All MS and PhD students are seen by OCPD’s research team, who specialize in working with MS, PhD and Life Science students and postdoctoral scholars pursuing research, academic and non-clinical career paths. If you fall within these categories, please visit (R-team Link) more information and support.
UCSF/SFSU Department of Physical Therapy including:
- 3-year DPT students
- Rehabilitation Science PhD students
Clinically focused master’s students including:
- Genetic Counseling MS students
- Global Health MS students
- MS Hail students
- MS Health Policy and Law students
Please note that our team does not serve prospective students, UCSF staff, Life Science students, or Postdocs, unless they are currently enrolled in one of the UCSF Health Professional schools or clinically focused master’s programs.
Privacy Policy:
Are OCPD appointments private or confidential? Our appointments are private but NOT confidential.
Please review our privacy policy for more information.
30-Minute Virtual Career Counseling Appointment - Bookable 14 days in advance
These appointments can only be booked 14 days in advance, meaning that appointments will become available on a rolling basis starting 14 days before an appointment date. Please use your UCSF email when booking or your appointment may be canceled without notice.
Topics addressed in this appointment type:
- Self-Assessment, Career Exploration and Planning, and Decision-making
- i.e.: Self-assessment, strategically planning your extracurricular activities in alignment with interests, skills, and values, identifying internal and external barriers, career exploration resources and search strategies, career planning, and decision-making
- Mentorship, Assessment of Professional Development Situations and Problem-Solving, Professional Communication Strategies, Self-Advocacy and Negotiation
- i.e.:identifying mentorship goals, how to identify and approach potential mentors, building and troubleshooting relationships, honing your professional conversation skills, identifying your feedback preferences and needs, assessing and navigating implicit and explicit workplace norms, problem identification and communication strategies to address complex professional development advocacy and negotiation issues
- Developing Your Professional Brand and Community:
- i.e.: Integrating, aligning, and communicating your professional identity and brand, networking and building professional relationships, optimizing your conversational skills during informational interviews, building effective leadership, and collaboration skills in your professional community
- Career Launch: Employment and residency searches, MSPE-related appointments, honing interview skills, and compensation package evaluation and negotiation.
20 Minute Virtual Same Day Appointment - Bookable 24 hours in advance
30-Minute Virtual Document Review Appointment - Bookable 21 days in advance
Career Counseling Staff:
In addition to developing career education resources and programs, all of our career counseling staff are available to see students for any one of our three career counseling appointment types.
Alona Harris, MS, Career Counselor Contractor
Neepa Parikh, MS, MBA, Career Counselor Contractor
Anna Reeves, MS, Assistant Director, Health Careers
Sarah Tanase, MA, Program Director, Health Careers
Can't find any open OCPD appointments?
Our team collects appointment scheduling preferences data to continually reassess and update our counseling appointment services. Therefore, if you can't find and book an appointment (e.g. there's no appointments available) Please take our brief 5 question Anonymous Survey to share your appointment booking preferences.
Health Professional Appointment Booking Policies:
- To maintain availability, each person can only book one appointment, with one counselor at a time.
- Please use your UCSF email when booking or your appointment may be canceled without notice.
- Please cancel your appointment within 24 hours of the appointment if you cannot make it. Students and postdocs who fail to cancel their appointments 3 times will be ineligible from accessing appointments for the remainder of that quarter, so please cancel and reschedule.
- Each person is limited to a maximum of 6 appointments per academic year.
- Health Professional appointments are exclusively for current UCSF Health Professional and clinically focused master's students. If you book an Health Professional appointment for assistance unrelated to a health practice career path, your appointment will be automatically canceled, and you will be encouraged to rebook with the appropriate team.
- Appointments booked in violation of any of our policies will automatically be canceled.
