MSPE Information

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Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE) Information

The Class of 2026 will begin meeting with Dr. Elma LeDoux to discuss their MSPE (Medical Student Performance Evaluation), also known as the Dean's Letter, on May 21, 2025. Dr. LeDoux will meet with a maximum of five (5) students per day, depending on her schedule.

Students unable to meet at the time they are assigned should request to swap with a classmate and alert somevents@tulane.edu of this change as soon as possible. The MSPE schedule will be updated weekly as change requests are made and updated via the Careers in Medicine course in CANVAS. Each student will receive an Outlook meeting invitation and a reminder the week before their meeting. 

Please complete the following documents and bring them with you to your meeting as well as upload them to the course in CANVAS(click on the form name to download):

  1. Your CV 
  2. Personal Statement
  3. Consent and Waiver form
  4. Match Career Advising Form

Your forms must be complete in order to meet with Dr. LeDoux, or you will be asked to reschedule. 

All meetings are mandatory and in person. If you are away on rotation or know that you will be away and unable to meet with Dr.LeDoux in person, a Zoom appointment must be scheduled within the above time frame. At the time of your appointment, a draft of your MSPE letter will be available for review. All students meeting over Zoom must send their documents to Dr. LeDoux the day before their meeting​​​​​​.

A few notes about the Dean's letters:

  • Letters cannot be removed from our office, photographed or copied – This is an LCME and AAMC regulation, we absolutely have to follow the regulations.
     
  •  In the event that you are unable to come to the office to review your letter, you can call the office and your letter will be emailed to you in draft form. Please do not share or forward the encrypted draft you receive via email. 
     
  • Only the clerkship directors are authorized to alter the clerkship comments. Dr. LeDoux does not make changes or edits to the MSPE letter. Content changes will ONLY be made if received from the Director of the clerkship. Student Affairs staff can make any grammatical changes to your letter on your behalf.
     
  • Using a red pen, you can make changes and corrections to any wrong information or typographical errors. Sentence structure or comment order will not be changed. You cannot add items to your letter. The Dean's Letter is meant to be written by the Dean! Every accomplishment/paper/book, etc. is not needed in the letter. A complete list can be provided in your resume. 
     
  • If you do not come in to read your letter at any point in the editing process, Student Affairs will assume it is fine as is and it will be submitted to ERAS on the deadline date without your approval.  

                                                  

Class of 2025 MSPE SCHEDULE

Please check the weekly announcements in CANVAS for appointments and schedule updates.