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Resident-led Dermatology

Longitudinal | Selective

Lectures given by dermatology residents through the preclinical stage. Content to cover cutaneous pathologies on different Fitzpatrick skin types providing exposure to how skin conditions may present on various skin tones. Aligned with content on STEP1.


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

Rural Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective will introduce students to rural medicine and current rural health issues. Students will have the opportunity to learn from medical professionals working in rural areas, as well as from rural residents themselves.


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

Rural Outreach and Opportunities to Serve (ROOTS)

Longitudinal | Selective

Students gain hands-on interactions through participation in health screenings, health events, and potential mobile clinic shadowing. An emphasis on Rural health will expose students to the barriers these patients face. Screenings would include vision, blood lipids, blood glucose, and BP.


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

Science of Happiness

Longitudinal | Selective

"Students engage in a series of challenges designed to increase their own happiness and build more productive habits. Based on Yale Professor Laurie Santos’ “The Science of Well-being” course, this selective reveals misconceptions about happiness and the research that can help us change."


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

Sexual Assault & Victim Advocacy 2

Longitudinal | Selective

Trained SAVA volunteers who are onboarded with Olmsted County Victim Services may sign up for monthly daytime and/or overnight shifts. Volunteers take crisis line calls and attend call-outs to the St. Mary’s ED, where they provide support services to victims throughout the forensic exam process.


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

Sexual Assault & Victim Advocacy for the Medical Student

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective focuses on violence against women and gender minorities while honoring and recognizing male victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, with the goal of highlight the role of medical professionals in recognizing signs of sexual assault, trafficking, and domestic abuse.


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

Sleep Medicine

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

During this rotation, students will work with the sleep medicine physician seeing patients in the clinical setting. Students will learn the basics of normal sleep physiology, respiratory physiology during wake vs sleep and the neuroreceptors involved in maintaining sleep. Students will learn how to diagnose different sleep disordered breathing, the importance of a detailed airway examination and the importance of the pharyngeal muscles that are involved in breathing.


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

Sleep Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective allows for two weeks in the outpatient Sleep Medicine clinic, seeing patients with sleep complaints or symptoms in coordination with attendings and fellows. Students would also be given the opportunity to observe daytime sleep latency testing or overnight polysomnography.


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

Sleep Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Sleep medicine is an interdisciplinary field devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of neurological, respiratory, and psychiatric sleep disorders such as sleep disordered breathing, insomnia, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, and parasomnias.


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

Southwest Center: Care for Diverse Communities

1-2 weeks | Selective

Observe and participate in outpatient care at the Southwest Center, which provides affirming and inclusive services to promote well-being and advance health equity for diverse communities, including people of color, LGBTQIA2S+ and Queer individuals, and those affected by HIV.


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