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.
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."
Longitudinal | Selective
This medical improvisation class refines cognitive and communication skills in novel and surprising ways. Offered with increasing frequency in US medical schools, improv classes are engaging, relevant to diverse medical settings, and appropriate for students with a wide range of interests.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Physician reluctance, embarrassment, and perceived constraints, including time and training limitations, often hinder discussions about sexual health with patients. Previous research indicates that this discomfort begins during medical school. This session aims to assist second-year medical students in comprehending the diverse facets of sexual and reproductive health across different life stages.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
