What is MAPS?
One of EdCom’s academic initiatives is the MSS Academic Peer Support (MAPS) taskforce, whose mandate is to support students in FMD that are in a remedial situation in matching with a peer tutor to help them review for the remedial. This process is confidential and allows a student in a remedial situation to select a peer tutor of their choice in a bank of peer tutors from Med-1 and Med-2.
How do I sign up ?
Tutors:
The sign-up form linked below is open throughout the year. Students can select which blocks they feel most comfortable tutoring and will receive an email at the start of the blocks they’re tutoring reminding them that they’ve signed-up as tutors.
They’ll have a chance then to withdraw their names as tutors for that block if they don’t feel that they’ll be available to tutor after all.
All tutors have to sign a confidentiality agreement included in the sign-up form below. Note that any breach in the confidentiality agreement will result in immediate dismissal from the MAPS program.
To sign-up to be a peer tutor, please fill out the following form:
MAPS Peer Tutor Sign-up
Tutees:
A few days after the block exam, students should receive an email announcing that MAPS will be open for tutee sign-up. Students in a remedial situation will then have a chance to select a peer tutor of their choice.
Once they’ve signed up, the student should receive an automated email informing them that they’ve been matched with their peer tutor. It is the tutee’s responsibility to reach out to their peer tutor.
Please find below the calendar for the MAPS program availability for this academic year:
| 2024-2025 Academic Year | Exam date | MAPS opening date | MAPS closing date |
| Block A | September 27th 2024 | September 30th 2024 | October 11th 2024 |
| Block B | October 25th 2024 | October 28th 2024 | November 8th 2024 |
| Block C | December 10th 2024 | December 13th 2024 | December 24th 2024 |
| Block B/C Anatomy | December 12th 2024 | December 15th 2024 | December 26th 2024 |
| Block D | January 27th 2025 | January 30th 2025 | February 10th 2025 |
| Block E | February 27th 2025 | March 2nd 2025 | March 13th 2025 |
| Block E/D Anat | February 26th 2025 | March 1st 2025 | March 12th 2025 |
| Block F | April 16th 2025 | April 19th 2025 | April 30th 2025 |
| Block G | May 16th 2025 | May 19th 2025 | May 30th 2025 |
| Block H | June 13th 2025 | June 16th 2025 | June 27th 2025 |
| Block H Anat | June 16th 2025 | June 19th 2025 | June 30th 2025 |
| Block I | September 24th 2024 | September 27th 2024 | October 8th 2024 |
| Block I Anat | September 23st 2024 | September 26th 2024 | October 7th 2024 |
| Block J | November 26th 2024 | November 29th 2024 | December 10th 2024 |
| Block J Anat | November 25st 2024 | November 28th 2024 | December 9th 2024 |
Questions?
For any questions or concerns about the MAPS project, you can contact either VP Medical Education or either VP Wellness by email using the coordinates found below.
VP Medical Education: vpeducation.mss@mail.mcgill.ca
VP Wellness : msw.mss@mail.mcgill.ca