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Courses for enrolled students

Laparoscopic Skills Development

1-2 weeks | Selective

In the SIM center using the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Skills (FLS) lap trainer and the virtual lap trainer. Student will perform the FLS tasks using the lap trainer and record the best attempt of each day. A surgical mentor will then review the videos and provide feedback with the goal of improving performance in each task. The virtual lap trainer includes training modules in basic techniques, simulated appendectomy, cholecystectomy, and hysterectomy with a record of objective performance.


  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Surgery

Lead the Field

Longitudinal | Selective

Lead the Field is a collaborative program between Mayo Clinic medical students and Special Olympics Arizona to unite these two communities in a shared mission. We plan to pair medical students with a student athlete partner to meet one-on-one over the course of the program.


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

LGBTQI+ Healthcare

1-2 weeks | Selective

Members of the LGBTQI+ community have both common and unique health needs. This selective aims to overcome the inferior health outcomes associated with a negative relationship between provider and LGBTQI+ patients, while familiarizing students with best practices concerning LGBTQI+ patient care.


  • Location: Arizona, Minnesota
  • Format: Virtual
  • Type: Belonging

Lifestyle Medicine for Health Equity

Longitudinal | Selective

Lifestyle Medicine for Health Equity (LMHE) trains medical students to address health disparities through an evidence-based, culturally responsive lifestyle medicine curriculum, motivational interviewing, and hands-on service and clinical experiences working with underserved communities.


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Service Learning

Looking at Art: A Way into Seeing Patients and Self

Longitudinal | Selective

This course aims to build a variety of skills vital to a physician’s success, including visual literacy (observation skills), critical thinking, interpersonal and communication skills, active listening, and collaborative problem solving while learning methods of expression that build resiliency.


  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: Virtual
  • Type: Humanities in Medicine

Master of Advanced Study (MAS) in Health Informatics

Longitudinal | Dual Degree

The Master of Advanced Study in Health Informatics, offered through the ASU Department of Biomedical Informatics, offers an opportunity to earn a master's degree in the effective use of information technology, data science and knowledge representation to impact health and health care.


  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Virtual

Master of Mass Communication

Academic LOA | Dual Degree

ASU's renowned Cronkite School offers learning opportunities through its master's degree programs, designed to prepare students for today's rapidly evolving media landscape. This program provides real world, practical experiences through its professional immersion programs.


  • Location: External to MCASOM

Mayo Clinic Leadership Forum: Developing Effective Leaders of Character to Positively Influence Healthcare

Longitudinal | Selective

Learning to become an effective, ethical leader with the tools to positively influence healthcare is not just for future department chairs or hospital CEOs. The Mayo Clinic Leadership Forum selective is the starting point for a broader initiative. This selective will focus on developing the following leadership principles through student-driven discussions.


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

Mayo International Health Program

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Global Health, Selective

The Mayo International Health Program (MIHP) helps Mayo learners pursue elective rotations to learn and assist in providing medical care to underserved international populations in well planned and mentored settings.


  • Location: International
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical, Scholarship Opportunities

McKinsey & Company

Academic LOA | Professional Development*

Work as a consultant at one of McKinsey & Company's global locations, playing an active role in all aspects of client engagement, including gathering and analyzing information, formulating and testing hypotheses, developing and communicating recommendations, while learning the business of medicine.


  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Scholarship Opportunities