Longitudinal | Selective
The Heart-Healthy Futures selective gives medical students the opportunity to participate in a community-based cardiovascular prevention initiative aimed at promoting heart health literacy and lifelong wellness habits among elementary school students in Rochester.
3-8 weeks | Selective
The Humanistic Elective in Activism, Reflective Transformation, and Integrative Medicine (HEART-IM) experience is designed to cultivate each participant’s vision of what it means to be a healer and support a plan for maintaining that vision throughout residency and beyond.
3-8 weeks | Selective
Students will see patients with anemia and other cytopenic workups, coagulation problems, diagnostic and staging workups for hematologic malignancies, and evaluation of myeloproliferative diseases.
1-2 weeks | Selective
This rotation will offer students the opportunity to experience and participate in the care of patients with hematology/oncology deficiencies, including hemopoietic stem cell transplantation.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Students will join an active Hematology consult service managing inpatients with both benign and malignant diagnoses. Students will round daily with the consult service team, attend and participate in daily didactic lectures, and attend outpatient clinics in the afternoons.
1-2 weeks | Selective
This selective provides experience on the Hematology Consultation Service, which cares for patients on the alternate (non-hematology) inpatient services with a variety of ailments, including anemia, other cytopenias, thrombophilia, and hematologic malignancies/dysplasias.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Students will meet patients with a variety of liver diseases, including candidates for and recipients of liver transplantation. Students will observe endoscopic procedures, Hepatology Inpatient service, outpatient Hepatology Clinic and Liver Transplant Clinic, and participate in conferences.
1-2 weeks | Selective
In this selective, students will engage in a series of pre-recorded lectures, interactive learning modules, and self-directed learning designed to teach high-yield dermatology concepts relevant for Step 1 and beyond.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Food insecurity is an urgent public health issue that affects millions of people, particularly in rural areas where access to nutritious food is often limited. This selective explores the multifaceted impact of food insecurity on health outcomes and community well-being in Mower County, MN.
Longitudinal | Selective
For many, confronting this can be extremely uncomfortable and meaningful conversations about end-of-life planning with patients can seem impossible. This selective provides students with the opportunity to learn how to serve patients at the end of life with dignity, respect, and confidence. Students will learn through one-on-one shadowing experiences with physicians skilled in hospice and palliative care along with enriching self-paced activities providing information about the end of life.
