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Courses for enrolled students.

Emergency Medicine Skills

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective provides hands-on exposure to the field of emergency medicine. Procedures (e.g., endotracheal intubation, vascular access, lumbar punctures, and suturing) will be learned in the simulation center, while a shadowing experience provides patient contact.


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical
Courses for enrolled students.

Empowering Native Youth

Longitudinal | Selective

This community service selective focuses on designing and implementing workshops in partnership with Native communities to address key health challenges, including diabetes, obesity, and prenatal care, emphasizing culturally sensitive education and preventive care strategies.


  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Service Learning
Courses for enrolled students.

Enrichment Newsletter Student Editor

Longitudinal | Selective

In this Selective, students will serve as editors of the Enrichment Newsletter. The Enrichment Newsletter provides the student body with information about current Enrichment opportunities, including Selectives, Global Health, Dual Degrees, etc.


  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: Virtual
Courses for enrolled students.

Essentials of Scientific Writing & Publishing

1-2 weeks | Research, Selective

A close look at scientific journals shows that good science and good writing do not often coexist and that easily understood writing is hard to find. Learn about the publications process and about the function and content of each section of a biomedical paper.


  • Location: Arizona, Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person, Virtual
  • Type: Research
Courses for enrolled students.

Family Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will experience the family physician’s role in providing continuity care from birth through adulthood in the outpatient setting. Students will observe family medicine faculty in the outpatient clinic and will see a variety of patients of all ages and with all types of medical problems.


  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical
Courses for enrolled students.

Family Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective showcases the breadth of family medicine through interactive lectures, shadowing physicians and non-physicians, and hands-on skill workshops while offering an opportunity to experience the family physician’s role within the health care team.


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical
Courses for enrolled students.

Food as Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This course combines lecture and interactive learning in a kitchen setting. Lectures provide the evidence for the impact of diet interventions on disease outcomes. Students will learn cooking strategies and techniques for incorporating functional foods into meals and for preparing meal plans.


  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person
Courses for enrolled students.

Forensic Pathology

1-2 weeks | Selective

The student will shadow at the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner. In their state-of-the-art facility, talented and dedicated staff of highly trained physicians make public inquiry into sudden and unnatural deaths to protect the living from an untimely death.


  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical
Courses for enrolled students.

FUNctional Neuroanatomy

| Selective

The selective includes 8 (2-hour) neuroanatomy lab sessions (you must attend at least 5) that incorporate game-based learning strategies, plus supplemental conferences/meetings/shadowing. Sessions are structured to fit the neuroanatomy taught in the Neuroscience course.


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person
Courses for enrolled students.

Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery 1

1-2 weeks | Selective

The 1st of two 1-week self-directed selectives for 4th-year medical students (or M3 students that completed the surgery clerkship). Gain hands-on experience in laparoscopic surgery with FLS modules, designed to build foundational skills and prepare you for advanced techniques in a supportive setting.


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Surgery