Veritas is 大象传媒 Long School of Medicine鈥檚 student advising system. This program is designed to provide medical students with a multi-layered system of support through academic, career, and personal guidance. Comprised of faculty and medical student peer advisors, Veritas advocates the professional development of each individual throughout their medical school journey, as well as the community of students as a whole.
Veritas is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long鈥檚 peer mentoring organization. Its goal is to enhance the development of medical students by fostering close relationships, assisting with career decisions and accessing resources. It is a cohesive and interclass system in where each class of students mentors the students following them.
Incoming students become a part of one of 20 Veritas groups or 鈥渇amilies.鈥 The families are clustered into 5 Societies: Jones (Green), Holly (Red), McFee (Blue), Rockwood (Yellow), and Esterl (Purple) named after founding faculty. Each Veritas group is led by a clinical faculty member as well as fourth year medical students 鈥淢entors in Medicine鈥 (MiMs) and second year medical students 鈥淰eritas Peer Advisors鈥 (VPAs). Medical students remain in their group for their medical school career.
Current Long School of Medicine students can log in to the for a list of resources and more detailed information. Students may also contact the Veritas Director, Howard T. Wang, M.D., at wanght@uthscsa.edu.
