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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
Courses for enrolled students.

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: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

Maternal Fetal Medicine

3-8 weeks | Selective

This rotation provides an intense experience in high-risk obstetrics, but also offers exposure to prenatal ultrasound diagnostic and evaluation techniques. Much of the teaching is one-on-one with the consultant.


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

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

Medical & Surgical Aspects of Cardiac Transplantation

1-2 weeks | Selective

On the heart failure and cardiac transplant teams, learn about the pathophysiology of the failing heart, the diagnosis and management of patients with heart failure, artificial heart support systems, and heart transplants encompassing the spectrum of medicine, surgery and pathology.


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