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Courses for enrolled students.

General, Vascular, & Colorectal Surgery

3-8 weeks | Selective

Students spend time in the clinic, hospital, and operating room with each of the general surgical consultants. Students thoroughly work up and closely follow 2-3 new surgical patients each week from their preoperative evaluation to their postoperative care, including assistance in the operating room.


  • Location: Florida
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical, Surgery
Courses for enrolled students.

Geriatric Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students could see patients across the health care continuum. With a carefully crafted schedule to afford you with the unique opportunity to care for older adults in multiple care settings.


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

Global Health Equity Scholars Program

Longitudinal | Global Health, Distinction Track

The Global Health Equity Scholars Program is a comprehensive program that is designed to help learners develop a foundation of the breadth of global healthcare and the importance of achieving global health equity, with an emphasis on diverse and medically underserved resource-poor communities.


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

Global Health Online Learning

1-2 weeks | Global Health, Selective

This is a one-week selective focusing on furthering understanding of basic and intermediate Global Health topics.


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

Global Surgery: Part I

Longitudinal | Global Health, Selective

This selective is intended to provide medical students with an understanding of the realities, opportunities, challenges, and skills associated with practicing surgery in a global setting, with an emphasis on resource-poor environments and sustainable partnership.


  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Clinical, Surgery
Courses for enrolled students.

Graphics-Based Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Graphics-based medicine is the use of comics to tell stories of illness, health, and healthcare. The combination of text and image create a powerful medium to express meaning beyond traditional barriers.


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

Gut Microbiome

3-8 weeks | Selective

In this longitudinal selective, students will explore the gut microbiome through reading "I Contain Multitudes" by Ed Young. Students will gain an understanding of the dynamic interactions between the microbiome and the human body as well as explore the functional roles of the microbiome in areas such as digestion, metabolism and the immune system. The goal is to allow students to further their understanding of the microbiome and the critical role it plays in individual health and disease pro


  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Hybrid
Courses for enrolled students.

Gynecologic Surgery

3-8 weeks | Selective

This rotation should provide an experience comparable to a month of OB/GYN internship, during which you function as an intern under the supervision of the fellow and/or senior resident and Gynecologic Surgery consultant.


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

Gynecology

1-2 weeks | Selective

The student will shadow GYN practitioners in the outpatient and inpatient setting treating common gynecologic conditions and will observe several gynecologic procedures performed in the outpatient setting (ultrasound, IUD insertion, etc.), as well as inpatient gynecologic surgeries.


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

Hand Surgery

1-2 weeks | Selective

This one-week selective will give medical students an introduction to the field of hand surgery through two days of OR shadowing, one day of hand clinic shadowing, and a didactics/surgical skills session.


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person