How to get tutoring at your school?

[Tozanzibarbymotorcar]

How does tutoring work at your school? Does your school have a centralized office where a student can request a tutor or do they need to go through a student organization?

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[Goro]

Your student services office should be able to help you with this, or the learning/education center.

 

[Noisewater-TDX]

We have upperclassman who are paid (i think) to tutor us. It isn't 1 on 1, it's in lecture hall after our formal lectures. Very helpful.

 

[getfat]

Student affairs usually has a "learning specialist" or someone that holds that title along with many others.

Talking with your professors can help as well. Some schools have an assigned 3rd/4th year that TAs.

 

[BorntobeDO?]

My school used to assign you to tutoring if you failed a test. Now its just optional and you have to ask the learning specialist. Honestly a tutor can only help so much, you have to figure out what works for you.

 

[Tozanzibarbymotorcar]

thx. Our student affairs is very small and does not have tutors or a specialist. Do all schools have a learning specialist? There is a club that has volunteer tutors and there are class TAs but they don't have to tutor if they don't have time. So during the second semester they usually don't have time since they will be preparing for boards. I am thinking of putting out some sort of a paid ad. I think that students would be more inclined to tutor if they are paid?

 

[IslandStyle808]

thx. Our student affairs is very small and does not have tutors or a specialist. Do all schools have a learning specialist? There is a club that has volunteer tutors and there are class TAs but they don't have to tutor if they don't have time. So during the second semester they usually don't have time since they will be preparing for boards. I am thinking of putting out some sort of a paid ad. I think that students would be more inclined to tutor if they are paid?

My school has both learning specialists and tutors.

The way a learning specialist work is that they teach you the "how to study." Meaning having a schedule and understanding what has been working from what hasn't (ex. flash cards vs. reading slides multiple times vs. concept mapping). The downside of learning specialist is because they don't have a clue about the intensity of medical school, and even worse is when they DON'T try to understand. However, the learning specialists have been okay so far.

The way tutors work is that they teach you about a subject. This can be a subject such as microbiology, pathology, respiratory, etc. However, downside of a tutor is that they maybe good at the subject themselves but they suck at teaching it. Yet they are medical students, so make sure not only learn the subject matter but how they study (ex. flash cards, reading the books, or learning a professors personality traits). It may work for you or it may not.

Can't really say much about advertisements, hopefully it works out for you.