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As they do every summer, the tutoring associations at the University of Montpellier (Montpellier Health Tutoring Association, Pharmacy Tutors Association, Nîmes Health Tutoring) organize a Pre-Semester Workshop to help PASS and LAS students prepare as thoroughly as possible. This initiative aims to ease the transition into the academic year through introductory courses and guidance on study methods, while also promoting well-being and social life.
The SPR: An Asset for the Year Ahead
Participating in the SPR makes it easier to settle into the academic year. In fact, we offer both coursework and study skills sessions that help students avoid being caught off guard by the way work is organized in the PASS or LAS programs.
- SPR PASS runs from Monday, August 22, through Saturday, September 3.
SPR LAS runs from Monday, August 29, through Wednesday, August 31.
The Pre-School Year Workshop for PASS Students
For PASS students in the 2022/2023 academic year, the SPR takes place in person at the three campuses: Arnaud de Villeneuve (ATSM), Flahault (ATP), and Carémeau (TSN). The registration fee is €15, which coversthe cost of printing the handouts that will be distributed during the course. You must first register for the tutoring program, which is free and available year-round via the form accessible under the STUDIES AND TRAINING tab → PASS – LAS → TUTORING.
The SPR continues to be highly popular among students, the overwhelming majority of whom believe that the internship was beneficial to them, as shown in the statistics below!
All of our tutor teams are committed to making this orientation program both enjoyable and very useful for the rest of the year. It’s also a great way to get a feel for life at the university and to form study groups for the rest of the year!
Our Back-to-School Camp will take place at three different locations:
- ATSM: Arnaud de Villeneuve Site: 641 Avenue du Doyen Gaston Giraud, 34090 Montpellier
- ATP: Flahault Site: 15 Charles Flahault Avenue, 34090 Montpellier
- TSN: Carémeau Site: 186 Chemin du Carreau de Lanes, 30900 Nîmes
ATSM:
Link to register for SPR PASS: https://forms.gle/21GpmzweWCLgyau39
The registration deadline is Thursday, August 18, at 11:59 p.m.
ATP:
SPR PASS registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDoefyu2xjuxQPiHObibQS0QzDayYlf3rNs4h8QyyE9qpVVw/viewform
The registration deadline is Wednesday, August 17, at 11:59 p.m.
TSN:
SPR PASS registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaVJefKl-V5KA0VlI__a4MurDFT1nuXhl6MYMFZn55cM8SWg/viewform?usp=sf_link
The registration deadline is Saturday, August 20, at 11:59 p.m.
The Pre-School Year Workshop for LAS Students
For LAS students in the 2022–2023 academic year, this is an online program conducted via virtual meetings onZoom®, in order to ensure equal opportunities across all LAS tracks. The SPR LAS is free but also requires prior registration for the tutoring program.
The SPR is a great way for students to understand the LAS's expectations , while feeling supported by an association that will be a strong ally, standing by their side throughout the year.
ATSM:
Link to register for SPR LAS: https://forms.gle/jRo8YYPge3vUNJEAA
You can register until 11:59 p.m. on August 27.
ATP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHKySWfT9_rblJoJaJnissfXYsY-fbkPQYD8uFpeS3PGT31Q/viewform
You can register until 11:59 p.m. on August 17.
TSN:
Link to register for SPR LAS: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeaVJefKl-V5KA0VlI__a4MurDFT1nuXhl6MYMFZn55cM8SWg/viewform?usp=sf_link
You can register until 11:59 p.m. on August 20.
#ProudOfOurStudents – It's in the News!
The Montpellier Health Tutoring Association is once again hosting its High School Students’ Week, from February 21 to 25, 2022! This week is dedicated to all high school students, their parents, and teachers, with the aim of addressing any questions they may have about the REES (Reform of Admission to Health Studies), better known as the PASS-LAS program.
An event hosted on Zoom, so that as many people as possible can participate
This week, intended for all high school students (10th, 11th, and 12th graders) as well as their parents and teachers, will consist of various sessions dedicated to explaining the REES program, thePASS/LAS tracks, and the upper-level years. The sessions will take place on Zoom from February 21 to 25, 2022, except for those on the morning of Wednesday, February 23, which will be held at the Arnaud de Villeneuve Campus of the Faculty of Medicine (641 Avenue du Doyen Gaston Giraud, 34090 Montpellier).
Participation in this event is completely free, and requires prior registration using the form below:
A program packed with lectures, tutorials, and Q&A sessions
See below for the full schedule for the week:
- Monday, February 21 – 4:00 p.m.: The first session will be dedicated to presenting the Tutoring Program and the ATSM association. The role of the Tutoring Program within the reform and the free services provided by the ATSM will be explained in detail to reassure students about the academic and psychological support they will receive throughout the year. By the end of the week, high school students will be familiar with the new system established under the Reform of Admission to Health Studies and how the PASS and LAS programs operate. The various subjects covered during the academic year will also be explained in detail.
- Wednesday, February 23 – 2:00 p.m.: A session has been scheduled for 10th and 11th graders to help them choose their specializations for their final year of high school.
- Wednesday, February 23 – 2:00 p.m. and Thursday, February 24 – 7:00 p.m.: Two sessions will be held specifically for parents and teachers to involve them in the Health Studies Introductory Reform and to explain how it works, as well as the tutoring program.
- Thursday, Feb. 24 – 4:00 p.m.: The tutors will lead a study skills workshop to help students get a good grasp of the year ahead and plan accordingly, while also including a short wellness break.
- New this year:The ATSM is organizing an in-person morning session at the university for high school seniors who wish to observe a tutoring session for PASS students. They will first be welcomed at the ADV campus and then taken to attend a session in a lecture hall.
- Students in their senior year will have the opportunity to attend five Tuto Lycée sessions, which will cover some of the course material they will encounter during the first semester of the PASS/LAS program.
- The week will finally conclude with a discussion session, during which the tutors will be available to everyone to review the week and answer any remaining questions.
Are you a PASS or LAS student? Check out Pep’s Week, organized by your awesome student organization, Tutorat Santé Montpellier! Dates, program, and registration—find all the information you need in this article!
A Week of Wellness for PASS and LAS Students
To wrap up the exams for the first semester and help students better prepare for the second, the Montpellier Health Tutoring Association (ATSM) is organizing the 2022 edition of Pep’s Week for PASS and LAS students!
Winner of the Montpellier Student Initiatives Award in 2018–2020 and highly appreciated by students, “Semaine Pep’s” is a project that is very close to our hearts, and we hope to bring it back this year under the name “Pep’s Week.”
This week is dedicated to the well-being and relaxation of PASS and LAS students. To this end, the ATSM is organizing numerous activities in partnership with students from various programs to best support first-year students by providing them with psychological and academic support. Promoting this sense of well-being is a key objective that has become essential since the start of the health crisis.
The 2022 edition, January 24–28
Pep’s Week will take place from January 24 to 28, 2022. During the event, the ATSM will offer a variety of activities every day at lunchtime at the Montpellier School of Medicine on the ADV Campus (641 Avenue du Doyen Gaston Giraud), featuring qualified speakers and opportunities for students and tutors to interact and share ideas.
For this new edition, the theme is “Japan”; participants will receive a Welcome Pack filled with lots of special goodies related to the ATSM’s partnerships.
Here is the detailed schedule for the week:
Registration
Pep’s Week is free, but you must register in advance. It’s easy! Just click the button below to register:
Since getting started in health-related studies in Montpellier can be daunting, the Montpellier Health Tutoring Association (ATSM) offers a week-long internship and training program so that high school students can embark on these studies well-informed and well-prepared!
The program:
To mark High School Students’ Week, members ofthe Montpellier Health Tutoring Association have put together a comprehensive program designed to provide the best possible support not only to future medical students but also to their parents and the teaching staff at various high schools.
- This week, dedicated to high school students, will take place from April 19 to 23, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., online via Zoom!
- By the end of this completely free week, high school students will understand how the reform of admission to health-related programs (Medicine, Midwifery, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Physical Therapy, and Occupational Therapy under the PASS program) works!
- The association also offers a training program specifically designed for secondary school teaching staff to equip them with the skills needed to guide high school students in choosing their academic paths.
- High school students will be fully informed about this year’s tutoring program, which offers academic and emotional support—completely free of charge and supervised by university professors!
- Members of the ATSM association will lead a workshop on how to prepare for college admission. The program will also include a conference bringing together students who have been accepted into health-related programs, their parents, and high school students and their parents.
- This week also includes students in their junior and sophomore years, with a comprehensive overview of the PASS and LAS programs and a discussion on which specialized courses to choose.
- For seniors, tutors will review the key points of the high school curriculum that students need to master in order to ensure they have a solid foundation.
Practical Information:
Despite the announcement of the lockdown, the Faculty’s student organizations managed to support our students through this difficult time by organizing some wonderful initiatives throughout the month of November. Check out the November edition of the student organization recap!
Let's celebrate the mustache!
The month of November is often associated with Movember, a movement dedicated to raising awareness about men's health issues.
Our organizations got involved and shared photos of their best mustaches on social media while raising awareness about prostate cancer!
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Positivity goes hand in hand with activity!
We can't say it enough: exercise is good for your health! The ASMM understands this well and offers twice-weekly workout sessions on Zoom to stay connected with its members—which is essential for preventing isolation.
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Studying and taking classes at home require good organization in order to achieve one’s goals. The ASMM’s live yoga sessions and the AMESF’s positive messages have supported our students in this new way of working by providing them with a burst of positive energy.
Actions Taken!
The organization Les Crocos du Monde was able to participate in the outreach efforts organized by Samu Solidaire to help the most disadvantaged and the homeless by providing them with a hot meal and, quite simply, a little comfort.
November also marked National No-Smoking Month. AMESF took part in this initiative by launching an awareness campaign on the risks of smoking during pregnancy.
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Your tutorials—there for you now more than ever
Finally, we’ll conclude this article by highlighting the continuity of services so admirably provided by your tutoring teams, who never faltered in their mission during the lockdown. By offering online tutoring sessions, remote study groups, and even a virtual library, your tutors have once again demonstrated their creativity in supporting our PASS and PACES students as they prepare for their first-semester exams!
In addition, the tutors organized information-sharing sessions and a “parent tutoring” conference to support the parents of prospective PASS students. This initiative was greatly appreciated by the 50 families who attended this virtual event.
Upcoming event: the Tutoscars, mock exams organized by the UM’s three talented health tutoring groups— ATSM, TSN, and ATP—on December 5 and 19 for PACES and PASS students.
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Once again, our student organizations have made us proud of them, their initiatives, and our students. Stay tuned to learn more about their initiatives this December! #ProudOfOurStudents
After meeting with the Nîmes Health Tutoring Association, this week we’re joining the Montpellier Health Tutoring Association and its new president, Milla Esclafit-Cardoso!
In a few words, what is the AssociationTutorat Santé Montpellier?
The Tutoring Program consists of second- and third-year health sciences students who have passed the PACES entrance exam and who have been selected and trained for one year by the professors in charge of that year’s program. Our goal is to provide free, high-quality academic and emotional support to any student at the University of Montpellier and its branch campuses who wishes to pursue a career in healthcare. To meet this need, three organizations are available to assist you: the Montpellier Health Tutoring Association, the Pharmacy Tutors Association, and the Nîmes Health Tutoring Program.
These three organizations pool their resources to provide equitable support to all students and share a common goal of ensuring equal opportunity in the admissions process for health professions programs.
What activities or initiatives do you organize throughout the year?
To start the year off on the right foot, we’re offering a Pre-Semester Workshop open this year to all PACES and PASS students: its goal is to review the entire first-semester curriculum, help students develop effective study habits, and introduce them to the faculty so they can find their footing.
Each week, we review the key points from each course across all subjects through multiple-choice quiz sessions led by professors: these sessions are offered at several different times so that students can adjust their schedules according to their availability. To help students with their questions, office hours are held every day at noon on campus, and a forum is also available to students.
To ensure regular and representative assessment, we organize weekly graded quizzes attended by approximately 900 students across our three campuses, as well as mock exams, which this year drew more than 1,600 students in the first semester.
To adapt to the lockdown and public health measures, we held our sessions and review sessions online via Zoom, which we recorded so that PACES students with an unstable internet connection could watch them. We also expanded our YouTube channel to diversify our remote content, focusing on parts of the course that we felt were difficult for students to understand. 
Beyond academic support, we help students navigate a demanding year by promoting activities focused on well-being: board game lunchtimes, relaxation workshops, and more… Our biggest wellness event is Pep’s Week, which takes place in early January—a particularly difficult time for PACES students. To help first-year students connect with upperclassmen, we set up a student mentoring program right at the start of the year.
To further promote equal opportunity, the Tutoring Service works withHandiversité to offer a disability support service for students who need reasonable accommodations during sessions or exams.
Finally, in the context of reform, we serve as key points of contact both within the university—by organizing career guidance forums—and at the local level through various student fairs, as well as at the national level by participating in conferences that bring together tutoring organizations from across France.
What made you decide to join the organization?
Tutoring helped me pass my PACES exam by supporting me for two years: this support was extremely valuable to me because I couldn’t afford to pay for the services of a private organization. The tutors’ availability, the quality of the sessions, and above all, the support they provided in every aspect of PACES life—from studying to maintaining a healthy lifestyle and staying motivated—really helped me get through that challenging time. It was a no-brainer for me to apply to become a tutor after I was admitted to my second year of medical school, so I was delighted to join the UE7 team (Health, Humanities, Society). My year as a trainee tutor was so fulfilling that I wanted to continue the journey by joining the Tutoring Board to help it reinvent itself during the year of the reform: so we changed our name from the Montpellier Medical Tutoring Association (ATM²) to the Montpellier Health Tutoring Association (ATSM) to better reflect our commitment to diversifying the backgrounds of incoming students across all health-related programs!
What does the association offer students?
Beyond simply providing academic guidance, our goal is to offer genuine support to all young adults who are navigating university studies, life away from home, and a very substantial workload. Our core value is equal opportunity, ensuring that selection for this first year is based on academic ability rather than financial status. This aligns more broadly with our commitment to collegiality—a value we hold dear in the healthcare professions—and with our training, which is largely based on peer-to-peer learning. After all, we are first and foremost students who have gone through this challenge ourselves and who are trying to help PACES students just as we needed help when we were in their shoes!
Why do you think people should join your organization?
In the first year, students can sign up for tutoring free of charge at any time throughout the year: there is no attendance requirement, but according to faculty surveys, attending 80% of the tutoring sessions is the best way to pass the entrance exam!
If you wish to join the ATSM as a tutor, you will have the opportunity to be selected based on your application and an interview after your second-semester grades are released. You will then hold the status of Trainee Tutor during your second year and may continue as a Qualified Tutor when you advance to your third year.
A few words about the 2020–2021 executive board?
The General Assembly to inaugurate our new executive board took place on June 9: we are all very excited to renew our commitment to supporting students repeating PACES, PASS, and LAS. We know that this year can be daunting for recent high school graduates, and we are ready to support them through this transition.
We're in the process of changing our name, so for now, our old name is what appears on social media:
Facebook: Medicine Tutoring in Montpellier
Instagram:
- tutoringmedmtp
- tuto_peps (our shared wellness account for all three tutoring sites)
Email contacts:
- General questions about the association, PACES, and PASS: asso.atsm@gmail.com
- Questions about LAS: vicepresident.las.atsm@gmail.com
- Questions about possible accommodations under the Disability Tutoring Program: vptutohandicap@gmail.com
Networks of other associations:
Nîmes Health Tutoring:
- Facebook: Nîmes Health Tutoring
- Instagram: tutorat_sante_nimes
Association of Pharmacy Tutors:
- Facebook: Montpellier Association of Pharmacy Tutors
- Instagram: atp_um
We've also put together a video presentation for you, in collaboration with the three tutoring programs!
