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High-Yield Dermatology

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.


  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: Virtual

Hometown Food Security Project

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.


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Service Learning

Hospice & Palliative Care

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.


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

Hospital Internal Medicine

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Advancing skills in clinical assessment, diagnostics, decision-making, and the evaluation and application of evidence. The student will become an active member of the team and can follow their patients through the entire process of hospitalization in a way that clerkship schedules may not allow.


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical

Hospital Internal Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Observe the diagnosis and treatment of common medical conditions. Allowing students to participate in hospital rounds observing patients with a variety of diseases including congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, malignancies, chronic lung disease, kidney failure, etc.


  • Location: Florida
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical

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

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

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

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

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