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Courses for enrolled students

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

Special Topics in Laboratory Medicine & Pathology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students can request experience in a specific laboratory and/or propose a project with the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. The week will allow the student to work alongside a DLMP consultant in a laboratory setting on a project/topic/research interest that is mutually agreed upon.


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

Spiritual Care

1-2 weeks | Selective

This customized selective allows students to shadow hospital chaplains to observe how they work to supplement the medical team in caring for patients and families. Opportunities exist to shadow an array of inpatient services as well as with chaplains from a variety of faith traditions.


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

Statistics & Research Education

1-2 weeks | Research, Selective

Learn important, useful concepts and skills for research endeavors in a self-paced, low-pressure way, using the online Essentials of Clinical and Translational Science (ECATS) and JMP statistical software modules. Option to meet with a Mayo statistician if you have a dataset you need help analyzing.


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

Street Medicine

Longitudinal | Selective

Street Medicine is an emerging field focused on delivering health and social services to the unsheltered homeless in their own environment, and “to engage people experiencing homelessness where they are and on their own terms to reduce or eliminate barriers to care access and follow-through”.


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

Street Medicine Phoenix

Longitudinal | Selective

The Street Medicine Phoenix Selective will explore aspects of working in clinical care for the unhoused population. Students will engage with different topics in the classroom regarding sociocultural education and specific aspects of care for the unhoused, and complete fifteen hours of clinical volunteer service with Street Medicine Phoenix.


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

Student Run Free Clinic (SRFC)

Longitudinal | Global Health, Selective

The selective will involve observation and direct involvement in the care of patients at the Student Run Free Clinic located within the Landing at 426 3rd Ave SE, with expected participation in several required educational components. In addition to staff already working at the SRFC to provide health services, students will volunteer, observe, shadow and care for this population alongside trained healthcare providers.


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

Students as Teachers

Longitudinal | Selective

This selective is designed to introduce and teach medical students how to teach in settings pertinent to medicine. Students will learn and can practice the core skills of teaching as well as reflect on their progress as learners and educators.


  • Location: Arizona

Students Offering Optimism to Help (SOOTHE)

Longitudinal | Selective

SOOTHE, a nationwide initiative started by Johns Hopkins medical students, aims to help patients through compassion, support, and company in clinical settings. Students spend time with patients in the hospital, offering comfort, connection, and hope.


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

Surgical Gynecology

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective experience offers the medical student an opportunity to learn about the surgical skills needed to treat gynecological disorders. Students will shadow gynecological surgeries in the operating room, and spend time observing inpatient gynecologic procedures (vaginal or abdominal hysterectomy) and outpatient consultations.


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