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Courses for enrolled students.

Hospital Internal Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Shadow a hospitalist on hospital rounds observing a variety of patients with common inpatient medical problems with opportunities to see/hear/feel common physical exam abnormalities associated with these conditions, as well as observe a variety of procedures commonly done in the hospital setting.


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

Human Cell Therapy Lab

1-2 weeks | Selective

Human Cell Therapy Lab provides high quality cellular therapy products, tests and services to patients and physicians. This selective allows medical students to be exposed to current practice in developing innovative cellular therapies.


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

Immunology (M.D./M.S.)

Academic LOA | Dual Degree

The Immunology Master’s Degree offers a highly interactive, productive research environment that offers the opportunity to learn from dedicated mentors, including 34 faculty-led laboratories conducting basic and translational immunology research in a wide variety of areas relevant to human disease.


  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Research
Courses for enrolled students.

Individualized Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective will introduce the concept of individualized medicine, healthcare that partners the latest in genomic and molecular science with data and technologies to personalize care for each patient.


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

Infectious Diseases

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The Infectious Diseases selective consists of daily hospital rounds with bedside teaching, patient workups and management, and attendance at infectious diseases education lectures. Students are expected to make daily rounds with the consultant and residents on the service. They perform many of the duties of an internal medicine resident while under close supervision by a resident in internal medicine and a fellow in infectious diseases.


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

Infectious Diseases

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The experience will include history taking, physical examination, review and interpretation of pertinent laboratory data, presenting information and reading of pertinent information from the available literature.


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

Infectious Diseases

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The infectious diseases selective consists of daily hospital rounds with bedside teaching, patient workups and management, and attendance at infectious diseases education lectures. Students are expected to make daily rounds with the consultant and residents on the service.


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

Infectious Diseases

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow Infectious Diseases attending, residents and fellows on the inpatient teaching service observing a wide variety of infectious diseases in hospitalized patients. Throughout the week students will attend all didactic teaching sessions and conferences.


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

Inpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Longitudinal | Selective

The Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Patient Exposure selective provides preclerkship medical students with an opportunity to explore the interpersonal dynamics between CAP patients and healthcare providers while learning about mental health through the eyes of the patients.


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

Integrative Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Learn about the various aspects of Integrative Medicine from physicians, acupuncturists, massage therapists, lifestyle medicine, and yoga providers, including how to integrate this with medical practice, and what the role of the Integrative Medicine practitioner is in today’s medical model.


  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Clinical