The Health Career Collaborative is an exciting and innovative link between high school students and teaching partners in health and medicine, designed to bring to life the possibilities of careers in healthcare to high school students who are under-represented in medicine. Participating medical students will visit both sophomore and junior classes on a bimonthly basis and teach a carefully constructed grade-specific curriculum over hour-long lunch-time sessions.
Health justice has been described as a movement that aims to create and sustain conditions that address systemic inequalities to support health and justice for all members of society. In this selective, students will learn about and discuss some of the conditions that create racism, LGBTQ+ health, global health, access to abortion, and ableism. In these sessions, students will hear from experts and discuss how inequalities are created and sustained.
This selective introduces the concept of health literacy, what it is and is not, what research has been done, and why it matters. It also explores the world of consumer health information and assists with developing skills to talk with patients and the community at large about health topics.
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.
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.
Students will see patients with anemia and other cytopenic workups, coagulation problems, diagnostic and staging workups for hematologic malignancies, and evaluation of myeloproliferative diseases.
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.
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.
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.
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.
