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
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.
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.
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.
Longitudinal | Selective
The rate of homelessness in Maricopa County is on the rise. It has increased 33% since 2020 and shows no signs of slowing down. These undomiciled individuals often have diminished access to health care. Mayo Clinic's Street Medicine Interest Group has an ongoing partnership with Street Medicine Phoenix. More information about Street Medicine Phoenix can be found on their website: https://streetmedphx.wixsite.com/uarizona
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”.
