Health Professional Career Counseling Appointment Scheduling

 

Schedule a career counseling appointment using Handshake

 

Handshake is a comprehensive career services platform designed to enhance your counseling, professional development, and job search experiences.

 

It consolidates all your career services into one seamless platform where you can book counseling appointments, message your career counselor directly, register for professional development events, and explore employment opportunities.

 

*If it is your first time logging in, your profile will automatically populate your information.

 

Our team offers two career counseling options for current health professional students:

30-minute Career Counseling Appointment  

Topics addressed for this option are: Mock Interviews, Career exploration, decision-making and planning, mentorship and enhancing professional communication, navigating difficult conversations and self advocacy, identifying barriers to integrating your professional identity, building your professional brand and community, strategizing our postgraduate residency or employment search, interviews and salary negotiations.

30-minute Application Materials Review Appointment
  • Topics addressed for this option are limited to document reviews: CV, Resume, Cover Letter, Letter of Intent, SOM ERAS 10 Noteworthy Experiences, and Letter of Recommendation guidance
  • Topics that will not be addressed for this option:
    • Our office doesn’t review personal statements. Please see our Writing Resources page for statement writing guidance.
    • Spring Quarter M4 MSPE Noteworthy Characteristic Reviews. These appointments should be booked under our 30-minute Career Counseling option, as they focus on helping students identify and articulate three themes for their Noteworthy Characteristics paragraph, in alignment with broader guidance for their ERAS application.      

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List of current UCSF student populations our team serves:

Clinically focused master’s students including:
  • Genetic Counseling MS students
  • Global Health MS students
  • MS Hail students
  • MS Health Policy and Law students
Department of Physical Therapy students, including:
  • 3-year DPT students
  • Rehabilitation Science PhD students
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 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 Nursing, including:
  • DNP students 
  • 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:
  • 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.

General Service Eligibility Policy 

  • Alumni: Students and postdocs can continue to access our services for 6 months after graduating or separating from the university via alumni appointments on Handshake.
  • Other Individuals: Please note that our team does not serve prospective students, UCSF staff, Life Science students, or Postdocs, unless they are currently enrolled in a UCSF Health Professional school or health careers focused master’s program.  

Privacy Policy

Are OCPD appointments private or confidential?  Our appointments are private but NOT confidential.
Please review our privacy policy for more information.