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1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks, Longitudinal | Selective

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  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid, In-Person, Virtual

"Where I’m From": The Hospital as A Microcosm

Longitudinal | Selective

This selective explores the ways in which culture, identity, and narrative shape our lived realities and diverse experiences of healing. The course defines culture broadly, allowing for many derivations and definitions of identity and their intersections with health, healing and healthcare systems.

  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: Virtual
  • Type: Humanities in Medicine

3D Bioprinting & Biofabrication

Academic LOA | Dual Degree, Certificate

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is at the forefront of 3D bioprinting, developing the technique and technology for printing soft biological materials. This unique opportunity allows you to synergize your medical degree with this valuable, cutting-edge technology through an online program.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Virtual
  • Type: Scholarship Opportunities, Summer Experience

A Movement for Care

1-2 weeks | Selective

This course will introduce the language and concepts of careful and kind care that animate a global movement for care, and support students in identifying mini-revolutions – local actions to transform healthcare from industrial healthcare toward careful and kind care for all.

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

AAMC's Careers in Medicine Exploration through Podcasts

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective is designed to help medical students to choose a medical specialty and plan a career in medicine through podcasts. It features exploration of 120+ medical specialties listed on the AAMC’s Careers in Medicine website with insight from physicians in the field of interest.

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

Abdominal CT

1-2 weeks | Selective

UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health developed a 5-day “virtual elective” experience in abdominal CT. Students will review relevant anatomy, develop a systematic approach to interpreting clinical imaging, and gain experience reading CT and communicating their findings.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Virtual
  • Type: Clinical

Abdominal Transplant Surgery

1-2 weeks | Selective

The Mayo Clinic Arizona Transplant Department is the largest transplant center in the United States, performing over 250 liver transplants, 500 kidney transplants, and 25 pancreas transplants per year. The transplant service is a truly multidisciplinary team comprised of surgeons, nephrologists, hepatologists, NPs/PAs, nurse coordinators, pharmacists, case managers, social workers, fellows, and residents. Each member of the team serves an important purpose for the care of our patients.

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

Adaptive Triathlon

Longitudinal | Selective

Explore the field of adaptive medicine primarily through volunteering to support an adaptive triathlon for children with movement disorders. This triathlon will consist of swim, bike, and run events structured to meet the individual movement abilities of each athlete.

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

Advanced Clinical Anatomy

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Designed for students who have chosen an area of post-graduate specialty in which knowledge of advanced topics in clinical anatomy is essential to competency. Through self-directed learning & peer teaching, students will explore clinical cases that illustrate the importance of anatomical knowledge & demonstrate important relationships among anatomical structures.

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

Advanced Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology

1-2 weeks | Selective

This is a one or two week selective where medical students will have the opportunity to explore one or two specific areas of Radiology and learn about the role and impact these areas have on patient care. Perfect for students interested in pursuing Radiology residency.

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

Advanced Hematology & Oncology

3-8 weeks | Selective

Students participate in the workup of Hematology & Oncology patients at Mayo Clinic in Florida under the supervision of Hematology & Oncology staff and fellows and senior residents. Students receive instruction in and assist with bone marrow aspiration and biopsy, as well as subcutaneous fat aspiration.

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

Advanced Nephrology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will have inpatient or outpatient experience seeing patients with acute and chronic kidney disease, hypertension, kidney stones, and kidney transplants.

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

Advanced Radiation Oncology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Students participate in the initial evaluation, treatment planning, management and follow-up care of patients. Students can participate in multidisciplinary cancer conferences as well as radiation oncology specific conferences. Exposure to special procedures, such as radioactive implants (brachytherapy), intraoperative electron beam radiation, gamma knife radiosurgery and whole-body irradiation (marrow transplant) also may be possible.

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

Advanced Vascular Surgery

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Vascular pathology ranges from life threatening emergencies to cosmetic procedures. The vascular surgery division aims to expose students to the wide range of vascular pathology and gain experience in evaluation of vascular pathology. With this experience students will be able to better triage vascular emergencies, urgencies and elective situations and scenarios.

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

Advancing Health Equity

1-2 weeks | Selective

Aimed to expose medical students in an immersive manner to concepts and stakeholders in health policy and equity through an experiential learning program in our nation’s capital, Washington D.C.

  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person

Aerospace Medicine

3-8 weeks | Selective

Providing students with exposure to the field of aerospace medicine including clinical care, research, and education for pilots and aviation personnel. Field experiences at Cape Canaveral, FL will be offered pending availability.

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

Aerospace Medicine I: High Altitude Medicine & Challenging Environments Clinic

1-2 weeks | Selective

High altitude is a common exposure for humans during recreational and professional activities. In this selective, students learn about maladaptive responses to high altitude including acute mountain sickness (AMS), High altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) or High altitude cerebral edema (HACE).

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person

Aerospace Medicine II: Space Medicine & Advanced Aerospace Medicine Topics

1-2 weeks | Selective

Spaceflight and high-performance aircraft environments are now increasingly open to the general public. In this selective, students will learn how the environment of high-performance flight challenges human physiology, as well as how to counsel individuals who desire to engage in such activities.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person

AI In Medicine: Current Application & Future Trend

1-2 weeks | Selective

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making significant strides in the field of healthcare, playing pivotal roles across various applications. This week-long course is designed to blend theoretical knowledge with practical experiences, offering participants a deep dive into the world of AI as it applies to healthcare.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Hybrid

AMA Journal of Ethics: Editorial Fellows

| Professional Development*

The AMA Journal of Ethics® is a peer-reviewed journal that exists to help students and clinicians navigate ethical decisions in service to patients and society by offering cases and commentary; policy, history, law, art, and education discussions; journal-based, audio, and video CME; podcasts; visuals; and more. The journal is free to everyone. If you're a US-based medical student, we invite you to apply to be an AMA Journal of Ethics Editorial Fellow and design a theme issue with us.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: In-Person

Anatomic & Clinical Pathology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will experience the broad range of pathology and its role as a vital component of surgical and medical care, spanning infectious disease, rheumatology, oncology diagnosis and prognosis, and transplantation, while understanding diverse and cutting-edge diagnostic techniques.

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

Anatomic Pathology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Shadow pathologists, as they examine the pathologic findings in various specimens, observing techniques for preparing gross and microscopic pathology specimens and learning more about the role of the pathologist in patient care. Students may also have the opportunity to observe an autopsy.

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

Anatomy Curriculum Development

1-2 weeks | Selective

Providing advanced learners an opportunity to work with stakeholders to co-create a clinically relevant anatomy curriculum. Appealing to students who are interested in clinical anatomy and medical education. The goal of the selective is to revise a component of the MCASOM Arizona anatomy curriculum holistically to prepare learners for summative course assessments, USMLE Step 1, clerkships, and clinical practice.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Clinical

Anatomy Dissection: A Hands-on Team Based Approach

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective is aimed to reinforce anatomy knowledge for students who have completed the Year 1 MCASOM Anatomy Course, leveraging laboratory-based learning that includes hands-on cadaveric dissection and opportunity for strengthening non-technical skills.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person

Anesthesiology

1-2 weeks | Selective

This one-week selective experience provides early exposure to the field of Anesthesiology, where the student will shadow an anesthesia provider in the operating room and see physiology and pharmacology in action.

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

Anesthesiology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Anesthesiologists specialize in perioperative care, developing anesthetic plans, and the administration of anesthetics for patients undergoing surgeries while monitoring and supporting vital organ functions.

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

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Academic LOA | Dual Degree, Certificate

This novel Master’s Degree on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare will leverage the core values of Mayo Clinic, the extensive scientific and clinical knowledge of Mayo faculty and the unique position of leadership that Mayo Clinic holds in the field of healthcare.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Hybrid

Base Camp

Longitudinal | Selective

Florida-based longitudinal selective to achieve mastery of 13 EPAs while learning collectively with your student colleagues.

  • Location: Florida
  • Format: In-Person

BCG MD Scholar Program

Academic LOA | Professional Development*

Work as a consultant for BCG in a diverse Healthcare Practice that include project work with payers, providers, pharmaceutical manufacturers and medical technology companies.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Scholarship Opportunities

Bedside to Deskside: Healthcare Leadership and the Physician’s Evolving Role In It

1-2 weeks | Selective

Want to run a healthcare company? Need to get an MBA? Join us for an informative and engaging discussion about today’s healthcare landscape, where physicians fit in it outside of bedside medicine, what you can be doing now if you want to expand your professional horizon, etc.

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

Behavioral Neurology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Students will be responsible for evaluating the patients initially, taking a history, and performing a behavioral examination, as well as a general neurologic examination on all patients except those who are referred from within the Neurology Department.

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

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (M.D./M.S.)

Academic LOA | Dual Degree

A Master’s Degree in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology teaches you to conduct hypothesis-driven, molecular research in a variety of areas spanning basic to applied science using a multitude of approaches ranging from model organisms to human specimens.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Research

Bioethics

Longitudinal | Selective

The Bioethics Selective provides medical students with the opportunity to develop a framework for thinking through ethical issues and explore a variety of ethical dilemmas in medicine.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid

Biomedical Diagnostics (M.S.)

Longitudinal | Dual Degree

ASU's International School of Biomedical Diagnostics is an innovative initiative in the fast-growing field of diagnostics. This degree focuses on the intersection of business and health care communities and is aimed toward stimulating economic growth and improving the quality of life globally.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Virtual

Blood & Marrow Transplantation (BMT)

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The participant will obtain exposure to both the inpatient and outpatient practice of blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) as well as exposure to the integral laboratories that are part of the practice of BMT.

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

Breast Clinic

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Develop the skills necessary to evaluate & treat a breast complaint efficiently & appropriately. Focused on refining breast examination technique & imaging interpretation, enhanced appreciation of normal breast variation, and more!

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

Cardiology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

During the cardiovascular inpatient floor rotation, you will be a member of an interprofessional team caring for patients with complex cardiovascular conditions.

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

Cardiology Electrocardiography (ECG)

1-2 weeks | Selective

Aimed to equip medical students with a solid conceptual and clinical understanding of ECG interpretation. Through interactive self-directed lectures and regular practice, students will develop the foundational skills to become competent and confident in ECG interpretation.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Clinical

Cardiology: Echocardiology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will be introduced to the performance and interpretation of echocardiographic studies as they apply to cardiovascular diseases. This selective will also help students gain a basic understanding of echocardiographic and Doppler methods of assessing cardiovascular anatomy and hemodynamics.

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

Cardiology: Electrophysiology

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective will expose students to the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. The student will observe evaluation of cardiac rhythm problems with discussion in conference of management and electrophysiology procedures in the electrophysiology lab.

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

Cardiology: Inpatient Service

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective will emphasize the physiologic basis for clinical manifestations and therapy of cardiovascular diseases. Students will be introduced to the interpretation of common cardiovascular diagnostic procedures and work with a Cardiologist on the cardiology inpatient consultation service.

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

Cardiology: Interventional

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will observe coronary, non-coronary, and endovascular interventions in the cath lab. Students will be exposed to all aspects of interventions, including routine and complex angioplasty, rotational atherectomy, thrombectomy, distal protection devices, and stenting.

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

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Longitudinal | Selective

The Cardiothoracic Surgery Selective has been developed in close collaboration with surgeons specializing in cardiac and thoracic surgery, providing experience in this specialized field.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Clinical, Surgery

Cardiovascular Diseases

3-8 weeks | Selective

On the Cardiovascular Diseases Service, students are responsible for evaluating patients, presenting them to the supervising consultant, and following the patients' care.

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

Cardiovascular Medicine

Longitudinal | Selective

This selective will introduce students to cardiovascular medicine through specialty sessions such as Harvey simulations, research workshops, echocardiogram, cardiac anatomy, imaging, interventional skills, ECG basics, AI applications in cardiology, career exploration, and community engagement.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Hybrid

Child & Adolescent Neurology

3-8 weeks | Selective

A rotation designed to provide students with an understanding of basic principles of child neurology, including history taking & examination, knowledge of common presenting symptoms & signs, an overview of neurologic disorders in childhood, & essentials of diagnosis & management.

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

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Explore diagnostic categories include depression, schizophrenia, personality disorders, eating disorders and adolescents with difficulty adjusting to physical illness. The rotation aims to provide a foundation for and/or enhance medical student knowledge and understanding the unique aspects of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry evaluation, assessment, and treatments.

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

Child Life: In-Patient Pediatrics

Longitudinal |

Service selective working with Child Life to plan activities for and interact with inpatient pediatric patients and their families. Students will complete volunteering and shadowing to provide support to caregivers and understand the impact of illness on pediatric patients and their families.

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

Children with Autism: A Spectrum of Care

Longitudinal | Selective

In coordination with the Rochester Center for Children (RCC), explore the therapeutic modalities used in the care of children with autism. Selective experiences will include introductory lectures from Mayo Clinic faculty, shadowing at the RCC, and engaging with children with autism and their families.

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

Chinle Service Unit

3-8 weeks | Selective

The Chinle Service Unit (CSU) consists of a full service hospital and satellite clinics in Pinon and Tsaile. The CSU provides care to multiple nearby communities, and some of our patients drive 1-2 hours to see us, often on difficult dirt roads. This hands-on experience will give students the opportunity to learn about rural medicine and Indigenous health.

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

Circle the City

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Circle the City's Street Medicine teams spend time visiting encampments throughout Maricopa County, providing daily care to patients experiencing homelessness who are rough sleeping.

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

Clark Family Scholarship

| Dual Degree

The Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Scholarship in Honor of J. Richard Hickman, Jr., M.D., was established by Mr. Donald Clark, Sr., in 2005 to be awarded to a Master of Public Health student. Business Week described Donald Clark as “a career executive who knows the company inside and out.”

  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Type: Scholarship Opportunities

Clerkship Crash Course, Longitudinal

Longitudinal | Selective

Participation in both Clerkship Crash Course Longitudinal and Workshop experiences is highly encouraged, though not required. This course is designed to facilitate a smooth transition into clinical rotations by helping learners to improve EHR skills, to quickly find valuable clinical information, and to solidify history and exam skills. Learners will also have hands-on opportunities to learn office-based primary care procedures and solidify skills already learned.

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

Clerkship Crash Course, Workshop

1-2 weeks | Selective

Participation in both Clerkship Crash Course Longitudinal and Workshop experiences is highly encouraged, though not required. This course is designed to facilitate a smooth transition into clinical rotations by helping learners to improve EHR skills, to quickly find valuable clinical information, and to solidify history and exam skills.

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

Clinic Notes: Music & Medicine

Longitudinal | Selective

Through this course, students will conduct research on the current and historic role of music in healing and expand their understanding of the significant role of humanities in our field. Student musicians are encouraged to help address medical uncertainties and challenges through the art of music.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Humanities in Medicine

Clinical and Translational Science (M.D./M.S.)

Academic LOA | Dual Degree, Certificate

Offered through the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, this program includes coursework and a mentored research experience, and culminates in a published thesis.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Research

Clinical Bootcamp - MD-PhD

1-2 weeks | Selective

Need a clinical refresher after time away for research? Dr. Weroha’s clinical boot camp course provides a chance to review physical exam/history taking skills, build a DDx, and prepare for clerkships!

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person

Clinical Innovation - Biodesign

1-2 weeks | Selective

Discover how clinicians become innovators. The Clinical Innovation (Biodesign) Selective is a one-week, 20-hour immersive experience that empowers medical students to identify real clinical needs and translate them into tangible solutions using the Stanford Biodesign framework — Identify, Invent, Implement.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person

Clinical Pathology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow in Clinical Pathology (Laboratory Medicine). Students will observe patient venipuncture collection in the clinical laboratory, and then follow the specimen as it undergoes processing and analysis throughout the various laboratory departments.

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

Coaching & Preparing for Life in Medicine

Longitudinal | Selective

In this eight-week selective, students will have the opportunity to develop skills to support their future careers through group coaching on topics related to burnout, communication, navigating microaggressions, and residency applications among others.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid

Code Blue Interprofessional Training

Longitudinal | Selective

This program aims not only to support code blue education for consistent members of the code-blue response team, but also trainees and students who may respond. Medical students are a vital group of learners who benefit not only from developing a greater knowledge of ACLS and other emergency response protocols/procedures during their training, but also skills needed to effectively participate as a member of a high performing interprofessional team.

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

Communicate, Collaborate, Innovate: Applied Improvisation Tools for More Human-Centric Care

Longitudinal | Selective

Clinical environments demand adaptability, teamwork, and empathy—skills not always taught explicitly. This unique course offers a supportive space to practice them through structured, non-performance improv and theatre activities.

  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: Virtual
  • Type: Humanities in Medicine

Community Health Educator Training

3-8 weeks | Selective

The Unhoused Sexual and Reproductive Health Initiative (URSHI) is a collaboration between Planned Parenthood, The Landing Day shelter, and MCASOM students to increase access to reproductive health education and resources for the Rochester unhoused community.

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

Community Sports Medicine

Longitudinal | Selective

The Community Sports Medicine selective is a longitudinal experience meant to facilitate student engagement with various Sports Medicine events such as yearly athlete physicals, local races and athletic events, and Sports Medicine conferences.

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

Community Table

Longitudinal | Selective

Combining educational opportunities on nutrition alongside hands on cooking classes, we will prove that eating a balanced and healthful diet can be quick, cheap, and delicious.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person

Connecting with the Community: Preventative Health Screenings at Bridges Health LifeGate Food Shelf

Longitudinal | Selective

This program aims to (1) build interprofessional communication within a medical care team, (2) interact with the local community outside of the Mayo Clinic Setting, and (3) promote health literacy on preventative health screenings, such as blood glucose readings and blood pressure monitoring.

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

Critical Care

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The critical care service includes a core of physicians who care for critically ill patients in the intensive care units. Daily activities include morning and afternoon rounds, didactic lectures and tutorials, and bedside clinical teaching.

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

Critical Care Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Giving students insight into the work of the medical and surgical intensive care unit. Exposing students to all aspects of care to the critically ill. Potential exposure to a wide variety of patient illness and ability to observe and potentially participate in procedural aspects of critical care medicine.

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

Critical Care Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective experience will offer 2nd year students the opportunity to observe the care of patients in the Intensive Care Unit.

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

Culinary Medicine I

1-2 weeks | Selective

Culinary medicine is critical to the maintenance of health, representing a cornerstone that marries nutrition through cooking with nutrition and health care principles. The experience will be longitudinal in nature and encompass hands-on, interactive courses with self-directed opportunities.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person

Database Searching for Medical Literature

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective will introduce students to evidence-based medicine through the basic tenets of searching the medical literature utilizing citation databases with a focus on PubMed, the use of MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), keywords and saving searches.

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

Dermatology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The dermatology rotation is offered to help students acquire basic knowledge of dermatology. This knowledge should allow students to determine a correct diagnosis and understand the management of basic dermatologic disease.

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

Dermatology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow various consulting staff and dermatology residents primarily in the clinic setting. In addition, students may have the opportunity to shadow dermatology providers on hospital service and during procedures.

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

Dermatology

1-2 weeks | Selective

The Department of Dermatology at Mayo Clinic in Arizona offers a full range of dermatologic care for both common and rare problems of the skin. Students will gain experience in the evaluation and management of dermatologic disease in an outpatient setting.

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

Dermatology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The dermatology selective provides exposure to general medical dermatology through clinical shadowing, lecture/conference attendance, and self-study.

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

Dermatology & Oral Dermatology

Longitudinal | Selective

This longitudinal virtual selective provides the fundamentals for the diagnosis and management of skin, hair, nail and mucosal disorders. The lectures are carefully crafted to address practice gaps, learning objectives, and evidence-based management with references for further study.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Virtual
  • Type: Clinical

Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology

1-2 weeks | Selective

The Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Selective is designed to give students the opportunity to explore the field of radiology and develop an understanding of its role in patient care.

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

Diagnostic Radiology

3-8 weeks | Selective

Students rotate through multiple sections of the Department of Radiology, including chest, musculoskeletal, breast imaging, GI, body CT, ultrasound, MR, neuroradiology, interventional radiology, and nuclear medicine.

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

Diagnostic Radiology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Explore diagnostic radiology through active learning by reviewing and studying introductory imaging textbooks. Opportunities to shadow residents, fellows and attendings as cases are reviewed and discussed in the radiology reading rooms.

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

Distinction in Applied Medical and Health Humanities

Longitudinal | Distinction Track

The Distinction Track in Applied Medical and Health Humanities (AMHH) will recognize and support learners who show exceptional involvement, accomplishment, and scholarship in medical and health humanities

  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Type: Humanities in Medicine

Distinction in Biomedical Ethics

Longitudinal | Distinction Track

The Distinction in Biomedical Ethics Track is designed to provide students with the opportunity to gain additional bioethics knowledge and specialized research skills in bioethics beyond the content provided in the standard curriculum.

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

Dr. Randy and Alison Steer Award for Research in Breast Cancer

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Dr. and Mrs. Steer's philanthropic gift will help the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine prepare the next generation of physicians to lead the transformation of health care. Their generous gift will foster the discovery of novel treatments and promote innovative approaches to Breast Cancer treatment and patient care at Mayo Clinic and around the world.

  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Type: Scholarship Opportunities

Dr. Randy and Alison Steer Scientific Travel Award

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Dr. and Mrs. Steer's philanthropic gift will help the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine prepare the next generation of physicians to lead the transformation of health care. Their generous gift will foster the discovery of novel treatments and promote innovative approaches to patient care at Mayo Clinic and around the world.

  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Type: Scholarship Opportunities

Echocardiography: Valve Clinic

1-2 weeks | Selective

During this outpatient experience students have the ability to observe variety of echocardiographic techniques with exposure to variety of cardiovascular diseases including valvular disease, cardio-oncology, and congenital patients.

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

Emergency Medicine

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

University of Florida Health is an urban-based teaching facility offering an emergency medicine rotation which is designed for the student interested in emergency medicine as a career.

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

Emergency Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow physicians in the emergency department and assist with evaluations, examinations, and procedures as the situation allows. Students will spend time in the Simulation Center with EM faculty, learning and practicing various skills, as scheduled.

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

Emergency Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will encounter pathology ranging from obscure diseases to more common illnesses that present to the Emergency Department. Students will observe the evaluation and treatment of critically ill patients from admission into the Emergency Department to discharge at Mayo Clinic Hospital.

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

Emergency Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Observation and participation (as situations allow) in the Saint Marys Emergency Department.

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

Emergency Medicine Skills

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective provides hands-on exposure to the field of emergency medicine. Procedures (e.g., endotracheal intubation, vascular access, lumbar punctures, and suturing) will be learned in the simulation center, while a shadowing experience provides patient contact.

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

Empowering Native Youth

Longitudinal | Selective

This community service selective focuses on designing and implementing workshops in partnership with Native communities to address key health challenges, including diabetes, obesity, and prenatal care, emphasizing culturally sensitive education and preventive care strategies.

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

Enrichment Newsletter Student Editor

Longitudinal | Selective

In this Selective, students will serve as editors of the Enrichment Newsletter. The Enrichment Newsletter provides the student body with information about current Enrichment opportunities, including Selectives, Global Health, Dual Degrees, etc.

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

Essentials of Scientific Writing & Publishing

1-2 weeks | Research, Selective

A close look at scientific journals shows that good science and good writing do not often coexist and that easily understood writing is hard to find. Learn about the publications process and about the function and content of each section of a biomedical paper.

  • Location: Arizona, Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person, Virtual
  • Type: Research

Family Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will experience the family physician’s role in providing continuity care from birth through adulthood in the outpatient setting. Students will observe family medicine faculty in the outpatient clinic and will see a variety of patients of all ages and with all types of medical problems.

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

Family Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective showcases the breadth of family medicine through interactive lectures, shadowing physicians and non-physicians, and hands-on skill workshops while offering an opportunity to experience the family physician’s role within the health care team.

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

Food as Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This course combines lecture and interactive learning in a kitchen setting. Lectures provide the evidence for the impact of diet interventions on disease outcomes. Students will learn cooking strategies and techniques for incorporating functional foods into meals and for preparing meal plans.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person

Food Insecurity

Longitudinal | Selective

Service selective involving student community engagement with local groups combating food insecurity. Students will learn about food insecurity in the US and in Rochester through volunteering with Channel One Food Bank and Saturday Noon Meals, as well as a film viewing and talk from WIC.

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

Forensic Pathology

1-2 weeks | Selective

The student will shadow at the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner. In their state-of-the-art facility, talented and dedicated staff of highly trained physicians make public inquiry into sudden and unnatural deaths to protect the living from an untimely death.

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

Foundations in Orthopedics

Longitudinal | Selective

A structured, hands-on introduction to core orthopedic principles for medical students. Includes workshops, case discussions, simulations, and mentorship to build musculoskeletal knowledge, clinical skills, and career insight.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person

Foundations of Cancer Biology: Mechanisms and Systems

Longitudinal | Selective

This selective explores the molecular and cellular mechanisms that drive the transformation of normal cells into malignant ones. This course introduces the fundamental principles of oncogenesis, emphasizing how genetic and epigenetic alterations disrupt the normal regulatory circuits that control cell growth, differentiation, and survival.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid

FUNctional Neuroanatomy

| Selective

The selective includes 8 (2-hour) neuroanatomy lab sessions (you must attend at least 5) that incorporate game-based learning strategies, plus supplemental conferences/meetings/shadowing. Sessions are structured to fit the neuroanatomy taught in the Neuroscience course.

  • Location: Arizona, Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid

Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery 1

1-2 weeks | Selective

The 1st of two 1-week self-directed selectives for 4th-year medical students (or M3 students that completed the surgery clerkship). Gain hands-on experience in laparoscopic surgery with FLS modules, designed to build foundational skills and prepare you for advanced techniques in a supportive setting.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Surgery

Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery 2

1-2 weeks | Selective

The 2nd of two 1-week self-directed selectives for 4th-year medical students (or M3 students that completed the surgery clerkship). Continue to build on experience in laparoscopic surgery with FLS modules and simulation sessions to prepare you for advanced techniques in a supportive setting.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Surgery

Gallery Rounds: Art Observation in a Hospital Setting

Longitudinal | Selective

Introduction to art observation and the use of art in patient care spaces.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Humanities in Medicine

Gastroenterology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

This opportunity is primarily a hospital-based experience. In the morning, students attend daily teaching rounds with the hospital staff consultant. In the afternoon, students see hospital consultations in conjunction with the hospital staff person. Opportunities are provided for students to see the consultation and formulate their impressions and plan prior to the hospital staff consultation.

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

Gastroenterology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Shadow a gastroenterologist and observe a variety of endoscopies (esophagus/stomach, small intestine, colon polyps, etc.) as well as for cancer screening.

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

Gastroenterology: Endoscopy

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow a gastroenterologist and observe a variety of endoscopies (esophagus/stomach, small intestine, colon) performed on patients for commonly seen medical conditions, as well as for cancer screening. Students will observe motility studies and participate in rounds.

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

Gastroenterology: Inpatient

3-8 weeks | Selective

Students will attend rounds with the gastroenterology consultants with opportunities to participate in admissions, see inpatient consultations, and observe procedures. Built-in flexibility allows for observation of outpatient procedures and consultations, as well endoscopic simulation.

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

General Surgery

1-2 weeks | Selective

The Division of General Surgery provides modern and comprehensive surgical care for both routine and critically ill patients. Students can observe surgical procedures in the following subservices: general, colon & rectal, hepatobiliary, breast, melanoma, and endocrine.

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

General, Vascular, & Colorectal Surgery

3-8 weeks | Selective

Students spend time in the clinic, hospital, and operating room with each of the general surgical consultants. Students thoroughly work up and closely follow 2-3 new surgical patients each week from their preoperative evaluation to their postoperative care, including assistance in the operating room.

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

Geriatric Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students could see patients across the health care continuum. With a carefully crafted schedule to afford you with the unique opportunity to care for older adults in multiple care settings.

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

Global Health Equity Scholars Program

Longitudinal | Global Health, Distinction Track

The Global Health Equity Scholars Program is a comprehensive program that is designed to help learners develop a foundation of the breadth of global healthcare and the importance of achieving global health equity, with an emphasis on diverse and medically underserved resource-poor communities.

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

Global Health Online Learning

1-2 weeks | Global Health, Selective

This is a one-week selective focusing on furthering understanding of basic and intermediate Global Health topics.

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

Global Surgery: Part I

Longitudinal | Global Health, Selective

This selective is intended to provide medical students with an understanding of the realities, opportunities, challenges, and skills associated with practicing surgery in a global setting, with an emphasis on resource-poor environments and sustainable partnership.

  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Clinical, Surgery

Graphics-Based Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Graphics-based medicine is the use of comics to tell stories of illness, health, and healthcare. The combination of text and image create a powerful medium to express meaning beyond traditional barriers.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person

Gut Microbiome

3-8 weeks | Selective

In this longitudinal selective, students will explore the gut microbiome through reading "I Contain Multitudes" by Ed Young. Students will gain an understanding of the dynamic interactions between the microbiome and the human body as well as explore the functional roles of the microbiome in areas such as digestion, metabolism and the immune system. The goal is to allow students to further their understanding of the microbiome and the critical role it plays in individual health and disease pro

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Hybrid

Gynecologic Surgery

3-8 weeks | Selective

This rotation should provide an experience comparable to a month of OB/GYN internship, during which you function as an intern under the supervision of the fellow and/or senior resident and Gynecologic Surgery consultant.

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

Gynecology

1-2 weeks | Selective

The student will shadow GYN practitioners in the outpatient and inpatient setting treating common gynecologic conditions and will observe several gynecologic procedures performed in the outpatient setting (ultrasound, IUD insertion, etc.), as well as inpatient gynecologic surgeries.

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

Hand Surgery

1-2 weeks | Selective

This one-week selective will give medical students an introduction to the field of hand surgery through two days of OR shadowing, one day of hand clinic shadowing, and a didactics/surgical skills session.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person

Harry Hoffman II Humanitarian Student Fund

| Global Health, Selective

The Harry Hoffman II Humanitarian Student Fund, established in 1986 in honor of Dr. Hoffman, provides financial assistance to Mayo Clinic School of Medicine students seeking an opportunity in a medically underserved area.

  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Type: Scholarship Opportunities

Health & Human Services Internship

3-8 weeks | Selective

Intern with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and learn more about health care policy, assist in developing drafts of program policy for HHS, as well as review and analyze legislation. This internship can occur in-person in Washington, DC, virtually or hybrid.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Hybrid, In-Person
  • Type: Summer Experience

Health Care Administration and Policy (M.S.)

Longitudinal | Dual Degree

The M.S. in Health Care Administration and Policy degree provides students with the knowledge and competencies to contribute to and lead a patient-centered, safe and cost-effective health care system.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Virtual

Health Career Collaborative

Longitudinal | Selective

The Rochester chapter of the Health Career Collaborative is a branch of the national partnership program between medical centers and underserved high schools. Dedicated medical students will act as instructors for virtual sessions.

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

Health Career Collaborative with Andrew Jackson High School

Longitudinal | Selective

The Health Career Collaborative is an exciting and innovative link between high school students and teaching partners in health and medicine, designed to bring to life the possibilities of careers in healthcare to high school students who are under-represented in medicine. Participating medical students will visit both sophomore and junior classes on a bimonthly basis and teach a carefully constructed grade-specific curriculum over hour-long lunch-time sessions.

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

Health Justice

Longitudinal | Selective

Health justice has been described as a movement that aims to create and sustain conditions that address systemic inequalities to support health and justice for all members of society. In this selective, students will learn about and discuss some of the conditions that create racism, LGBTQ+ health, global health, access to abortion, and ableism. In these sessions, students will hear from experts and discuss how inequalities are created and sustained.

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

Health Literacy

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective introduces the concept of health literacy, what it is and is not, what research has been done, and why it matters. It also explores the world of consumer health information and assists with developing skills to talk with patients and the community at large about health topics.

  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person

Heart Healthy Futures:

Longitudinal | Selective

The Heart-Healthy Futures selective gives medical students the opportunity to participate in a community-based cardiovascular prevention initiative aimed at promoting heart health literacy and lifelong wellness habits among elementary school students in Rochester.

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

HEART-IM

3-8 weeks | Selective

The Humanistic Elective in Activism, Reflective Transformation, and Integrative Medicine (HEART-IM) experience is designed to cultivate each participant’s vision of what it means to be a healer and support a plan for maintaining that vision throughout residency and beyond.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Research, Summer Experience

Hematology

3-8 weeks | Selective

Students will see patients with anemia and other cytopenic workups, coagulation problems, diagnostic and staging workups for hematologic malignancies, and evaluation of myeloproliferative diseases.

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

Hematology & Oncology

1-2 weeks | Selective

This rotation will offer students the opportunity to experience and participate in the care of patients with hematology/oncology deficiencies, including hemopoietic stem cell transplantation.

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

Hematology Consult Service

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will join an active Hematology consult service managing inpatients with both benign and malignant diagnoses. Students will round daily with the consult service team, attend and participate in daily didactic lectures, and attend outpatient clinics in the afternoons.

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

Hematology Consulting Service

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective provides experience on the Hematology Consultation Service, which cares for patients on the alternate (non-hematology) inpatient services with a variety of ailments, including anemia, other cytopenias, thrombophilia, and hematologic malignancies/dysplasias.

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

Hepatology & Liver Transplantation

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will meet patients with a variety of liver diseases, including candidates for and recipients of liver transplantation. Students will observe endoscopic procedures, Hepatology Inpatient service, outpatient Hepatology Clinic and Liver Transplant Clinic, and participate in conferences.

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

High-Yield Dermatology

1-2 weeks | Selective

In this selective, students will engage in a series of pre-recorded lectures, interactive learning modules, and self-directed learning designed to teach high-yield dermatology concepts relevant for Step 1 and beyond.

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

Hometown Food Security Project

1-2 weeks | Selective

Food insecurity is an urgent public health issue that affects millions of people, particularly in rural areas where access to nutritious food is often limited. This selective explores the multifaceted impact of food insecurity on health outcomes and community well-being in Mower County, MN.

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

Hospice & Palliative Care

Longitudinal | Selective

For many, confronting this can be extremely uncomfortable and meaningful conversations about end-of-life planning with patients can seem impossible. This selective provides students with the opportunity to learn how to serve patients at the end of life with dignity, respect, and confidence. Students will learn through one-on-one shadowing experiences with physicians skilled in hospice and palliative care along with enriching self-paced activities providing information about the end of life.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Clinical

Hospital Internal Medicine

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Advancing skills in clinical assessment, diagnostics, decision-making, and the evaluation and application of evidence. The student will become an active member of the team and can follow their patients through the entire process of hospitalization in a way that clerkship schedules may not allow.

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

Hospital Internal Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Observe the diagnosis and treatment of common medical conditions. Allowing students to participate in hospital rounds observing patients with a variety of diseases including congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, malignancies, chronic lung disease, kidney failure, etc.

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

Hospital Internal Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Shadow a hospitalist on hospital rounds observing a variety of patients with common inpatient medical problems with opportunities to see/hear/feel common physical exam abnormalities associated with these conditions, as well as observe a variety of procedures commonly done in the hospital setting.

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

Human Cell Therapy Lab

1-2 weeks | Selective

Human Cell Therapy Lab provides high quality cellular therapy products, tests and services to patients and physicians. This selective allows medical students to be exposed to current practice in developing innovative cellular therapies.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person

Immunology (M.D./M.S.)

Academic LOA | Dual Degree

The Immunology Master’s Degree offers a highly interactive, productive research environment that offers the opportunity to learn from dedicated mentors, including 34 faculty-led laboratories conducting basic and translational immunology research in a wide variety of areas relevant to human disease.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Research

Individualized Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective will introduce the concept of individualized medicine, healthcare that partners the latest in genomic and molecular science with data and technologies to personalize care for each patient.

  • Location: Arizona, Minnesota
  • Format: Virtual

Infectious Diseases

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The Infectious Diseases selective consists of daily hospital rounds with bedside teaching, patient workups and management, and attendance at infectious diseases education lectures. Students are expected to make daily rounds with the consultant and residents on the service. They perform many of the duties of an internal medicine resident while under close supervision by a resident in internal medicine and a fellow in infectious diseases.

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

Infectious Diseases

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The experience will include history taking, physical examination, review and interpretation of pertinent laboratory data, presenting information and reading of pertinent information from the available literature.

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

Infectious Diseases

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The infectious diseases selective consists of daily hospital rounds with bedside teaching, patient workups and management, and attendance at infectious diseases education lectures. Students are expected to make daily rounds with the consultant and residents on the service.

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

Infectious Diseases

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow Infectious Diseases attending, residents and fellows on the inpatient teaching service observing a wide variety of infectious diseases in hospitalized patients. Throughout the week students will attend all didactic teaching sessions and conferences.

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

Inpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Longitudinal | Selective

The Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Patient Exposure selective provides preclerkship medical students with an opportunity to explore the interpersonal dynamics between CAP patients and healthcare providers while learning about mental health through the eyes of the patients.

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

Integrative Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Learn about the various aspects of Integrative Medicine from physicians, acupuncturists, massage therapists, lifestyle medicine, and yoga providers, including how to integrate this with medical practice, and what the role of the Integrative Medicine practitioner is in today’s medical model.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Clinical

Integrative Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will spend time with physicians, acupuncturists, massage therapists, lifestyle medicine providers, and yoga providers while performing online training to understand the role of the Integrative Medicine practitioner in today’s medical model.

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

Intensive Care Medicine on the Healthcare Team

1-2 weeks, Longitudinal | Selective

Intensive care is an often discussed, but rarely accessible area of medicine for medical students. During this weeklong program, students will be immersed in intensive care units (ICUs) across Mayo Clinic. Students will be partnered with ICU nurses to gain an intentional appreciation for roles within the health care team and, in doing so, work alongside ICU providers to engage in hands on patient care.

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

Introduction to Biomedical Informatics

1-2 weeks | Selective

Biomedical informatics is an interdisciplinary field that studies the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving and decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human health. Learn more about this exciting field in this selective.

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

Introduction to Computer Programming

1-2 weeks | Selective

With the increasing utilization of technology in the workplace, future physicians have an increasing need to understand computer programming basics. This selective would provide students with an introduction to Python through a hands-on project-based approach.

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

Introduction to Diagnostic & Interventional Radiology

1-2 weeks | Selective

This is a one-week selective where medical students will have the opportunity to explore Radiology while learning about the role and impact Radiology has on patient care.

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

Introduction to Space Medicine

Longitudinal | Selective

This course is an introduction to the principles of space medicine, an emerging field with rising popularity due to the commercialized spaceflight, by providing insight into the nuances of the health challenges associated with this ultimate medical frontier.

  • Location: Arizona, Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Clinical

Investigating Native Health

Longitudinal | Selective

Are you interested in Native Health? Wish it was a bigger part of our curriculum? If yes, then sign up for the longitudinal selective “Investigating Native Health Through Documentary.” Journey with us from Standing Rock to the Amazon to Hollywood and beyond as we become culturally humble physicians and advocates for justice in healthcare through documentaries.

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

Journal Club

Longitudinal | Selective

In this Journal Club Selective, learn to critically evaluate scientific articles and apply these analytical skills in your own scientific writing. You will evaluate study designs, and critique an article’s background, methodology, results, and discussion sections for a journal club presentation. 

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

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Academic LOA | Dual Degree

Combining your M.D. degree with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at ASU will prepare you for leadership roles in a variety of health care institutions, for developing health care policies, and for careers in medicine.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: In-Person

Karolinska Institutet in Sweden

3-8 weeks, Academic LOA | Global Health, Research

Research and/or clinical opportunities are available at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden!

  • Location: External to MCASOM, International
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical, Research

Kidney TREKS

1-2 weeks | Research

Kidney TREKS (Tutored Research and Education for Kidney Scholars), an initiative established by the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), is designed to foster interest in careers in nephrology and research through a week-long research course retreat and long-term mentorship program.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Research

Laparoscopic Skills Development

1-2 weeks | Selective

In the SIM center using the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Skills (FLS) lap trainer and the virtual lap trainer. Student will perform the FLS tasks using the lap trainer and record the best attempt of each day. A surgical mentor will then review the videos and provide feedback with the goal of improving performance in each task. The virtual lap trainer includes training modules in basic techniques, simulated appendectomy, cholecystectomy, and hysterectomy with a record of objective performance.

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

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

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: Belonging

Lifestyle Medicine for Health Equity

Longitudinal | Selective

Lifestyle Medicine for Health Equity (LMHE) trains medical students to address health disparities through an evidence-based, culturally responsive lifestyle medicine curriculum, motivational interviewing, and hands-on service and clinical experiences working with underserved communities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Medical American Sign Language (ASL)

Longitudinal | Selective

ASL is the 5th most used language in the United States and is the primary language of many Americans who are hearing impaired. Studying medical ASL will promote better awareness of this community.

  • Location: Arizona, Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Belonging

Medical Genetics

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Students are given the opportunity to observe in the evaluation of patients (and their families) with birth defects, inherited diseases or complex medical conditions that are suspected to have a genetic component.

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

Medical Humanities Reading

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students spend a week reading and reflecting on medical humanities writings. The books you select should be related to the medical humanities themes that give you insight into the human condition, suffering, personhood, resilience, historical or personal perspectives on medical practice, etc.

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

Medical Illustration

1-2 weeks | Selective

Introduction to medical illustration as a communication and educational tool.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Virtual

Medical Oncology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Students see patients in various stages of malignant disease and have an opportunity to actively participate in discussions concerning the evaluation and assessment of new drugs and modalities in the management of patients with malignant disease.

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

Medical Spanish

Longitudinal | Selective

The Medical Spanish Longitudinal Selective is an opportunity to gain and practice the skills required to communicate and connect with Spanish-speaking patients in the clinical setting. Sessions will include demonstrations and practice with the use of interpreters, interactive grammar practice, building medical vocabulary, practice building rapport with Spanish-speaking patients, as well as practicing taking histories, physical exams, and discussing treatment plans in Spanish.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person

Medical Spanish

Longitudinal | Global Health, Selective

Learn to communicate more successfully with Spanish-speaking patients by improving your Medical Spanish skills through interactive grammar practice, practice obtaining histories and physical exams in Spanish, as well as learning how to use interpreters in the clinical setting effectively.

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

Medical Spanish

Longitudinal | Global Health, Selective

The primary objective of the class is to enhance medical students’ ability to communicate with Spanish speaking patients so that they can build a better relationship with their patients and put them more at ease in the provider-patient role.

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

Medical Spanish Distinction Track

Longitudinal | Distinction Track

The Distinction in Medical Spanish is a formalized path for medical students with advanced to Native Spanish proficiency to become bilingual English-Spanish physicians. This distinction track seeks to advance MCASOM’s efforts to develop physicians capable of providing quality, patient-centered care to diverse patient populations and help reduce health disparities by increasing the number of Spanish-speaking physicians in the U.S.

  • Location: Arizona, Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid

Medical Spanish for Beginners

Longitudinal | Selective

Medical Spanish for Beginners is a longitudinal selective that gives students an opportunity to learn the basics of Spanish with a focus on communicating and connecting with Spanish-speaking patients in a clinical setting. This selective, designed for students with little or no prior experience with the language.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Hybrid

Military Medicine in Austere Environments

1-2 weeks | Global Health, Selective

Students participate in a course that trains medical professionals, military, and first responders in limited resource medical care. Curriculum delivered will be a combination of didactic presentations, case presentations, hands-on skills stations, simulations, and Procedural Skills Lab activities.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person

Mindfulness

Longitudinal | Selective

Let go of expectations and be here now as you explore mindfulness in a supportive, fun environment amongst friends. Learn to notice and be with what is because this moment is all there is.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Hybrid

Molecular Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (M.D./M.S.)

Academic LOA | Dual Degree

Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (MPET) is a field that melds discovery of basic biological mechanisms with translation of those findings into understanding the molecular basis for disease and the discovery/development of novel therapies for human disease.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Research

Neighborhood Christian Clinic

3-8 weeks | Selective

The Neighborhood Christian Clinic is a faith-based healthcare organization that provides care to uninsured patients in Phoenix, AZ. This selective provides the clerkship/post-clerkship phase student the opportunity to develop their ability to evaluate and manage acute and chronic illnesses seen in the primary care setting. Students will be encouraged to use a holistic approach to promote healthy lifestyles.

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

Neonatal Medicine

3-8 weeks | Selective

Students are assigned to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Saint Mary's Hospital and take part in the activities of the service. If students have an interest in NICU follow-up clinic, they can attend an afternoon with one of the Neonatology Fellows.

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

Neonatology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow staff neonatologists during their daily routine at the neonatal intensive care unit at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, providing exposure to working with newborns and infants requiring intensive care.

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

Nephrology

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective will provide exposure to all aspects of nephrology through participation in patient care and rounds. The student will observe initial evaluation and follow-up care of nephrology patients on the inpatient consult service and nephrology clinic.

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

Neurology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students join the Mayo Clinic Neurology team, assessing patients with acute and chronic neurologic diseases. This selective may include experiences in neurosurgery, neuroradiology, psychiatry and neuropsychological testing, emphasizing the team-based, multidisciplinary approach to these patients.

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

Neuroradiology

1-2 weeks | Selective

An online course is paired with a mentor in the Department of Radiology to facilitate an entry-level introduction to modalities and common pathologies seen in neuroradiology, and includes lessons on CT imaging, MRI, intracranial hemorrhage, stroke, and other brain lesions.

  • Location: Arizona, Minnesota
  • Format: Virtual
  • Type: Clinical

Neurosurgery

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective will provide exposure to aspects of the Neurosurgery service through participation in ambulatory and inpatient care, rounds, surgical procedures in the operating room and evaluation of new patients in the emergency room and outpatient clinic.

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

Neurosurgery

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students participate in patient hospital rounds and in neurosurgical operative cases. Emphasis will be placed on learning the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology appropriate for the surgical case or patient. The student will also gain exposure to the challenges and excitement of the field of neurosurgery.

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

Northeast Florida Community Medicine

Longitudinal | Selective

There are a variety of cardiovascular and primary care clinics in the community that provides compassionate care to the homeless and underserved population in Northeast Florida including Sulzbacher Center, Volunteers in Medicine, Mission House, and others. This longitudinal rotation provides an opportunity for the medical student to have an indispensable role in helping to provide that medical care.

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

Nutrition

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students observe Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs) provide Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) in the inpatient and/or outpatient setting at the hospital and the clinic. Students will review patient cases with the RDN prior to observing consults, either in an outpatient office setting or bedside clinical teaching. Additional activities such as observing group classes, team meetings and interdisciplinary rounds, as well as completion of a case study, are also available.

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

Obstetrics & Gynecology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Obstetrics and gynecology combine the disciplines of medicine and surgery. As such, this selective provides exposure to broad practices within the field of medicine as well as an understanding of the complexities within women’s health care.

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

Occupational Therapy

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will observe occupational therapists addressing physical, psychological, and cognitive aspects of patient well-being through the therapeutic use of everyday activities, optimizing function and quality of life in patients recovering from illness, injury or disability.

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

Oncology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will work with several staff consultants, fellows and residents in various oncologic disciplines at the Mayo cancer center and hospital, gaining exposure to various tumor specific clinics, subspecialty tumor boards, journal clubs and teaching sessions.

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

Online Pathology

1-2 weeks | Selective

A self-directed online Pathology course using pathelective.com. Students will self-select the pathology learning modules of their interest to complete and read short Microbiology articles.

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

Operational Medicine

Longitudinal | Selective

A longitudinal selective focused on providing pre-exposure and training for hands on skills to better prepare medical students for clerkships and specialties in areas like Emergency Medicine, Critical Care, Anesthesia, and various Surgical Specialties.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person

Ophthalmology

Longitudinal | Selective

Over the course of 2 months, students will attend a single workshop session, read pre-selected material on various ophthalmology topics, and shadow consultants for a total of 20 hours.

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

Ophthalmology I

1-2 weeks | Selective

Offering students an opportunity to become more accomplished, confident and capable when presented with a patient with ocular complaints. Students will shadow various consulting staff both in the clinic observing patients and, in the OR, observing surgeries.

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

Ophthalmology I

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow ophthalmologists and observe care of patients with ophthalmologic disorders, both in the Mayo Eye Clinic and in the private offices in the greater Phoenix area, as well as be able to observe ophthalmology surgeries in the Mayo Clinic Hospital OR.

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

Ophthalmology II

3-8 weeks | Selective

The selective occurs in the outpatient clinic setting where the students will rotate through each of the subspecialty clinics, including cornea, glaucoma, neuro-ophthalmology, oculoplastics, retina, and strabismus.

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

Ophthalmology II

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Designed to give students an appreciation for the role of ophthalmology as a medical specialty and an opportunity for them to become more accomplished, confident and capable when presented with a patient with ocular complaints. The course content encompasses clinical ophthalmology.

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

Oral Health in Underserved Populations

1-2 weeks | Selective

The oral health selective gives students the unique opportunity to learn oral health screening and assessment skills while working with local, underserved populations in Phoenix.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Clinical, Service Learning

Orthopedic Surgery

1-2 weeks | Selective

The orthopedic surgery selective is designed to introduce students to the field of orthopedic surgery while building fundamental skills that are essential to a future career in orthopedics. The selective will consist of one week of shadowing, lectures, and hands-on skill labs.

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

Orthopedic Surgery I

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will have the opportunity to observe different approaches to the surgical aspects of orthopedics as a specialty. Students will gain exposure and experience in the operating room. Providing the student with an understanding of the treatment of a variety of orthopedic conditions.

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

Orthopedics Cast Room

1-2 weeks | Selective

The student will have an opportunity to do basic orthopedic splinting, casting, and non-operative management of fracture problems, and will participate as a member of the orthopedic service team with the residents and faculty members.

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

Orthopedics: Foot and Ankle

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will join the Orthopedic Surgery team specializing in foot and ankle, gaining exposure to the medical and surgical management of patients with acute injuries and chronic conditions affecting the foot and ankle and lower extremity in the perioperative setting.

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

Orthopedics: Hand and Upper Extremity

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will gain exposure to the approach to the medical and surgical management of patients with acute injuries and chronic conditions affecting the hand and elbow through shadowing experiences with the Orthopedic Hand and Upper Extremity team.

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

Orthopedics: Sports Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will join the Orthopedic Sports Medicine team and learn more about the diagnosis and treatment of a large variety of sports injuries. The experience will encompass the entire spectrum of sports related musculoskeletal injuries.

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

Orthopedics: Total Joint Replacement

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students learn about the medical and surgical management of patients with arthritic or damaged joints and failed implants. The student will observe how an Orthopedic Surgeon assesses and manages pre-operative, operative and immediate post-operative concerns for a variety of joint conditions.

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

Otolaryngology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow in the Otolaryngology outpatient clinic and learn more about how specialists in Otolaryngology evaluate and treat patients with problems of the ear, nose, and head and neck region.

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

Otolaryngology (ENT)

Longitudinal | Selective

ENT is uniquely defined by anatomical region, rather than an organ system, and thus includes a variety of surgical and medical care. This selective facilitates experienced-based exploration of ENT in a minimal-barriers, low activation-energy way through events taking place over the course of a year.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Clinical

Otorhinolaryngology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Giving students experience with a wide range if pathological conditions encountered in the head and neck region. The selective includes exposure to the areas of otology, rhinology, head and neck cancer surgery, laryngology, maxillofacial trauma and facial cosmetic surgery.

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

Outpatient Neurology

Longitudinal | Selective

Shadow adult neurology residents in their weekly Continuity Clinics, allowing exposure over time to a variety of neurologic pathologies through observation of new patient evaluations, internal consults, and hospital follow-up visits.

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

Pain Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Observe the management of patients suffering from a variety of pain syndromes which could include cancer associated pain, acute pain, & chronic pain in the outpatient setting. Exposing students to a variety of interventional pain management techniques, e.g., injection therapies, nerve blocks, neural ablation, & neuromodulation

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

Pain Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Observe the management of patients suffering from a variety of pain syndromes which could include cancer associated pain, acute pain, & chronic pain in the outpatient setting. Exposing students to a variety of interventional pain management techniques, e.g., injection therapies, nerve blocks, neural ablation, & neuromodulation

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

Pain Rehabilitation Clinic

1-2 weeks | Selective

Join the interdisciplinary team of pain medicine, physical therapy, psychology, psychiatry, pharmacy, occupational therapy, biofeedback and nursing at the Mayo Clinic Pain Rehabilitation Center’s intensive outpatient program to improve function and quality of life for those with chronic pain.

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

Palliative & Hospice Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Based at St. Marys Hospital (SMH), students will work with the SMH inpatient palliative care consult team A or C, seeing inpatient consults with physicians and other practitioners on the multidisciplinary team, including nurse practitioners, social workers, and spiritual health providers.

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

Palliative Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Shadow Palliative care physicians to learn about symptom management and the communication skills necessary in caring for patients and their families. Join the consultation service at Mayo Clinic Hospital and the Sherman Home, an inpatient hospice facility on the Mayo Clinic campus.

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

Paracelsus Medical University in Austria

3-8 weeks, Academic LOA | Global Health, Research

Experience research and health care in Austria! Participate in a one-to-three-month research or clinical opportunities are available at the Paracelsus Medical University in Austria.

  • Location: External to MCASOM, International
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical, Research

Patient Education Experience

1-2 weeks | Selective

Medical students will increase their comfort in communicating and establishing relationships with patients. They will focus on communication skills and develop introductory open-ended questions to elicit useful information in a short amount of time.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person

Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine Outpatient

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow staff and residents in the outpatient pediatric clinic. Students will observe how relevant history, physical exam findings, and laboratory and radiology results are synthesized to formulate diagnoses and management plans.

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

Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine: Gastroenterology & Hepatology

3-8 weeks | Selective

This selective introduces students to diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the common gastrointestinal and liver diseases of children and adolescents.

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

Pediatric Allergy & Immunology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Students study under the direct supervision of clinical allergists/immunologists. They observe fellows, residents, and staff performing evaluations and are given the opportunity to conduct primary evaluations of outpatient allergy and clinical immunology problems.

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

Pediatric Cardiology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The purpose of the Pediatric Cardiology selective is to provide medical students with general exposure to the field of pediatric cardiology. A shadowing experience will be provided where students will have the opportunity to observe staff cardiologists during their daily routine. The experience will primarily be in the outpatient/ambulatory setting, but may also include some exposure to echocardiography, cardiac ICU, cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology, and cardiac MRI.

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

Pediatric Cardiology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow pediatric cardiologists, primarily in the outpatient/ambulatory setting, but may also include exposure to echocardiography, cardiac ICU, cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology, and cardiac MRI.

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

Pediatric Critical Care

3-8 weeks | Selective

Students who rotate through the Pediatric Critical Care (PICU) should obtain an appreciation of basic pathophysiologic principles related to critical illness and an understanding of specific disease processes which require critical management.

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

Pediatric Emergency Department

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow consultants and residents in the only free-standing pediatric Emergency Department in Arizona. Students will also be exposed to the basics of medical and trauma resuscitation in pediatrics.

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

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The goal of this rotation is to expose the medical student to a wide range of illnesses and injuries that present to a busy urban emergency department.

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

Pediatric General Outpatient

3-8 weeks | Selective

Outpatient General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (GPAM) provides well child and acute care for non-local pediatric patients, coordinated care for specialty clinics, and evaluations in the pediatric diagnostic and referral clinic. Students on this rotation will have the opportunity to see patients in these various clinics as well as gain exposure to team-based care.

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

Pediatric Infectious Diseases

3-8 weeks | Selective

The rotation is primarily hospital-based although the opportunity exists to see pediatric infectious diseases patients in the outpatient clinic. Students work directly with the consultant and fellow and/or resident assigned to the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Service.

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

Pediatric Infectious Diseases Outpatient Clinic

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students have the opportunity to shadow staff and residents in the outpatient pediatric infectious diseases clinic. Students will be exposed to a variety of infectious diseases, ranging from common infections among healthy children to unusual infections among medically complex children.

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

Pediatric Nephrology

3-8 weeks | Selective

Students participate in the workup of new and returning nephrology patients. They also attend appropriate nephrology and pediatric conferences where, on occasion, they present and discuss case histories.

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

Pediatric Neurodevelopmental Disabilities

3-8 weeks | Selective

Students will be introduced to the clinical presentations and current research about the major “Neurodevelopmental Disabilities” in infancy and childhood.

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

Pediatric Neurology

3-8 weeks | Selective

A three- or four-week rotation with the opportunity to work on both the outpatient and inpatient services under the direction of consultants and residents in pediatric neurology at Nemours Children’s Clinic and Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital.

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

Pediatric Neurology - Naples Community Hospital

3-8 weeks | Selective

Gain an understanding of the basic principles of child neurology, including history taking and examination, knowledge of common presenting symptoms and signs, an overview of neurologic disorders in childhood, and essentials of diagnosis and management.

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

Pediatric Ophthalmology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will gain exposure to both emergency and routine pediatric eye diseases and adult strabismus. Students will shadow pediatric ophthalmologists in the clinic and operating room at Phoenix Children's Hospital.

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

Pediatric Orthopedics

1-2 weeks | Selective

The Pediatric Orthopedics selective will expose students to the knowledge and skills needed to assess and treat pediatric orthopedic problems. Students will observe how a Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon assesses and manages perioperative concerns for a variety of orthopedic conditions.

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

Pediatric Otolaryngology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow Pediatric Otolaryngology attendings and residents in the clinic and operating room. Students will observe the history, physical examination, differential diagnosis, and treatment plan formulation for the child with problems in the ear, nose, and head and neck area.

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

Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Students would experience a wide range if pathological conditions encountered in the head and neck region in children. In addition, they will receive a general overview of the surgical treatment of these disorders. The selective includes exposure to the areas of otology, rhinology, head and neck cancer surgery, laryngology, maxillofacial trauma and facial cosmetic surgery.

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

Pediatric Palliative & Hospice Medicine

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

This rotation exposes students to the interdisciplinary approach to caring for pediatric patients with chronic and life-limiting medical conditions. The students will have the opportunity to participate in goals of care discussion as well as be exposed to all aspects of care these types of pediatric patients need including care coordination with multiple community agencies.

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

Pediatric Palliative Care

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The student will participate in inpatient and outpatient care with the ComPASS team. Along with consultants, nurses, and fellow’s students will get an introduction to palliative care, and palliative care in the pediatric setting.

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

Pediatric Pathology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will shadow pediatric pathologists and participate in frozen section, autopsies and slide conferences. They will be exposed to basic pathology techniques, such as histology, grossing, specimen embedding, cutting and staining.

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

Pediatric Radiology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Students will participate in the acquisition and interpretation of diagnostic imaging and in the communication of important findings to the ordering physician/team members. Students will interact directly with faculty at Nemours Children’s Clinic and Wolfson Children’s Hospital.

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

Pediatric Vietnam

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Global Health, Selective

This is an opportunity to experience hospital-based pediatric delivery of care in a developing country. Students learn about pediatrics and acute care conditions common in developing countries. You also acquire an understanding of the diagnostic capabilities within the country and the systemic issues that influence access, availability, and quality of care throughout the developing world.

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

Pediatric-NICU-Neonatology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Learning comprehensive management of normal and critically ill neonates by assuming primary responsibility for their care including, but not limited to, the history and physical examination, formulating differential diagnoses and management, writing orders, arranging consultation and follow-up care, discussing plans with parents and other staff members, and conducting quality improvement and safety practices.

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

Pediatrics

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will gain an understanding of pediatric medicine through shadowing experiences, hands-on simulations, discussions with residents, faculty, and families, and community volunteering.

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

Personal Finance in Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective will provide an opportunity to explore topics in personal finance (e.g., loan refinancing, budgeting, saving for retirement, investing, disability/life insurance) with the goal of empowering students in their financial decisions as they arise throughout diverging training paths.

  • Location: Arizona, Minnesota
  • Format: Virtual

Phlebotomy

1-2 weeks | Selective

The phlebotomy selective provides a basic understanding of the phlebotomy process, including equipment, technique and methodologies. The learner will also participate in clinical rotations performing venous collections on patients, one-on-one with a clinical preceptor.

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

Phoenix Indian Medical Center

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks |

Learn about Native American health, ambulatory family medicine, primary care and/or pediatrics at Phoenix Indian Medical Center (PIMC).

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

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

3-8 weeks | Selective

Providing students experience in a broad scope of physiatry practice through direct patient care, educational conferences, and individual study. Students will have the opportunity to rotate through inpatient and outpatient services.

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

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will observe and participate in the care of patients with musculoskeletal and neuromuscular disorders and the practice of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

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

Physical Therapy

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will observe an outpatient orthopedic physical therapy practice, where they will anatomy and physiology knowledge clinically and engage patient assessment and treatment to better appreciate the relationship between physicians and physical therapists.

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

Physical Therapy: Integrative & Women’s Health

1-2 weeks | Selective

Shadow physical therapists who specialize in pelvic physical therapy and learn more about pelvic floor dysfunction, complex pelvic pain disorders, and other conditions which effect both men and women, and the integrative medicine approach that can be used to address these issues.

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

Plastic Surgery

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Students participate in both the clinical and surgical practice of plastic surgery in a busy adult aesthetic and reconstructive practice. The practice includes cosmetic surgery of the face, body and breasts; postmastectomy breast reconstruction; microsurgery; reconstructive surgery following general, orthopedic, and neurosurgical procedures; skin cancer; and the management of complicated wounds and ulcers.

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

Plastic Surgery

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will join the Plastic Surgery team and participate on patient rounds in the OR, in clinic and at conferences. Students will become familiar with basic plastic surgery terms, conditions and various methods of plastic surgical reconstruction.

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

Plastic Surgery: Advanced Wound Care

1-2 weeks | Selective

A one week selective focusing on furthering understanding of the basics of wound care management and the role of plastic surgeons in clinical decision making and patient care.

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

Poetry in Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective explores the relationships between poetry and medicine, as well as exploring the importance of pathos-based relationships between medical professionals and patients. The selective includes reading and discussing the work of poet-physicians and poet-patients.

  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Humanities in Medicine

Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Longitudinal | Global Health, Selective

POCUS is a safe, rapid, and portable imaging modality that is used by many specialties. Training in this discipline is now being integrated into residency programs for emergency medicine, anesthesia, internal medicine, primary care, OB/GYN, and pediatrics.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person

Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

1-2 weeks | Global Health, Selective

Learn the basics of ultrasound including: 1) Image acquisition (choosing the correct probe, finding an acoustic window, how to optimize the image), 2) Interpreting the image (with an emphasis will be placed on recognizing normal anatomy, physiology and common diagnostic errors).

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

3-8 weeks | Global Health, Research

Research experience at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile for a minimum of 4 weeks, with the potential for longer experiences if approved by both institutions

  • Location: External to MCASOM, International
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical, Research

Pre-Med Insight

Longitudinal | Selective

This experience encompasses a year(s)-long mentorship between medical students and pre-medical students. Pre-Med Insight leaders gain the opportunity to develop as educators, mentors, equity advocates, and administrators.

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

Providing Care for Justice Involved Populations

Longitudinal | Selective

Justice-involved (JI) individuals have unique medical concerns that are not being addressed by current health-care systems across the nation. This selective experience will expose medical students to justice-involved populations early in their training through workshop and direct patient connection.

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

Psychiatry

1-2 weeks | Selective

conditions will be seen including depression, eating disorders, manic disorders, etc. The student will observe psychiatric care being delivered in a several settings, including the Generose Building, Emergency Room, and Mayo Building.

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

Psychiatry

1-2 weeks | Selective

Allowing students the opportunity to observe and participate in the evaluation and treatment of adult patients with neuropsychiatric disorders.

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

Psychiatry

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will observe and participate in the evaluation and treatment of adult patients with neuropsychiatric disorders, broadening their understanding of the field of psychiatry.

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

Psychiatry Pain Rehabilitation Center

1-2 weeks | Selective

Review chronic pain and explore a multimodal approach to chronic pain along side staff psychiatrist, staff psychologists, residents, case managers, occupational and physical therapists, and chemical dependence counselors.

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

Public Health & Health Policy

1-2 weeks | Selective

The Public Health Selective is a week-long in-person selective that will introduce students to roles for physicians in public health, provide opportunities to engage with local public health organizations, and meet with public policy experts and Minnesota legislators.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person

Pulmonary & Thoracic Diseases

1-2 weeks | Selective

The Division of Thoracic Diseases & Critical Care provides consultative, diagnostic and therapeutic services for all pulmonary disease and disorders of breathing. Students will observe the prevention, evaluation, and management of patients with common and uncommon pulmonary and thoracic diseases.

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

Radiation Oncology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students join the Radiation Oncology team and see a variety of malignant diseases, as well as special procedures, such as radioactive implants (brachytherapy), intraoperative electron beam radiation, gamma knife radiosurgery, whole body irradiation (marrow transplant) and proton beam therapy.

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

Radiation Oncology I

1-2 weeks | Selective

Exposure to special procedures, such as radioactive implants (brachytherapy), stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), Gamma Knife Radiosurgery and whole-body irradiation (marrow transplant) may be available. Opportunities to be involved with focused research projects with the intention of publication may be available based on student interest.

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

Radiation Oncology II

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Students work directly with staff consultants in radiation oncology. Becoming familiar with a variety of malignant diseases during the clerkship and participate in the initial evaluation, treatment planning, management and follow-up care of patients.

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

Refugee & Asylee Health

Longitudinal | Selective

Learn about pertinent issues regarding refugee and asylee health, including topics such as cultural humility and trauma-informed care. Participants will also have the opportunity to volunteer with refugee and asylee communities through the Refugee Education & Clinic Team (REACT) Clinic.

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

Refugee Education and Clinical Team Longitudinal Leadership (REACT)

Longitudinal | Selective

REACT is a collaboration between MCASOM and ASU students which empowers refugees living in Maricopa County by engaging with their communities, understanding their health disparities, educating on knowledge gaps and providing high quality patient care through a free clinic and community events.

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

Regenerative Sciences (M.D./M.S.)

Academic LOA | Dual Degree

A Master’s Degree in Regenerative Sciences aims to educate a specialized clinical workforce that can distinguish safe and valid regenerative options for patient care. The evolution from the traditional perspective of fighting disease to the increasingly actionable paradigm of restoring health begets

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Hybrid

Research Opportunities Coordinators

Longitudinal | Selective

Student Research Coordinators will publish a quarterly Research Column with specialty-specific opportunities, recent student and department highlights, and upcoming events. They’ll serve as peer guides to connect classmates with research mentors and resources.

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

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 & Reproductive Health

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.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Clinical

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

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

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

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

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 nation-wide 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

Surgical Pathology

3-8 weeks | Selective

Increase pathology knowledge by evaluation of gross, microscopic, and frozen section specimens. This 3-week selective offers an overview of the frozen section laboratory as well as the review of permanent sections from the frozen section laboratory.

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

Surgical Skills

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will gain knowledge needed to maximize shadowing experiences in surgery throughout their preclerkship curriculum while interacting with senior medical students, residents, and consultants and becoming more educated in the demands of a career in surgery.

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

Sustainability in Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This Selective will equip students with the knowledge and perspective needed to address waste in the medical field, ensure efficiency in operations, and foster an approach of empathy and understanding towards patients by garnering a greater appreciation of medical sustainability. Students will participate in a two-phase curriculum consisting of a lecture series presented by the Sustainability Committee and a quality improvement project in conjunction with the Sustainability Committee.

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

Teaching Assistant

| Professional Development*

Opportunities to provide teaching support to numerous Pre-Clerkship and Clerkship courses exist. Contact the Course Faculty with inquires and details. Note that enrichment credit is not awarded; however, these roles provide educational experience and reinforce foundational knowledge and skills.

  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota

The Doctors Mayo: A Reading Selective

1-2 weeks | Selective

Learn more about the history of the Mayo Clinic from its origin until 1950 and the seminal contributions of William and Charles Mayo, as well as their father, by reading this classic book and discussing it with Mayo Emeritus staff, who are members of the Spirit of Mayo Committee.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: Virtual

The Human Element: A Series in the Health Arts

Longitudinal | Selective

This experience is comprised of a series of workshops in storytelling, poetry/spoken word, visual arts, music therapy, presence, improvisation, narrative medicine and other medical humanities topics, taught by professional teaching artists and health care providers who practice art.

  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Humanities in Medicine

Thoracic Surgery

3-8 weeks | Selective

In the outpatient setting, students take histories and perform physical examinations on at least two to three patients weekly. Initial examinations and interesting cases are stressed. After reviewing each case with the consultant, students assist with ordering tests and procedures, and are present when the patient returns for follow-up.

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

Transfusion Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective will provide the learner with a solid background in immunohematology and transfusion medicine. Introductory rotations will be scheduled through the work units of Transfusion Medicine. A "hands-on" serologic laboratory experience will include basic ABO/Rh, antibody screening, crossmatching, antibody identification, and direct antiglobulin testing.

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

Transplant

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will have the opportunity to shadow in Transplant Medicine and Transplant Surgery with exposure to various service lines. These service lines include kidney, heart, lung, liver, and pancreas.

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

Transplant Medicine & Surgery

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

This selective will provide students with exposure to the field of transplant medicine and surgery as a mixed-discipline experience. The goal is to experience the spectrum of transplant medicine from the perspective of the patient.

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

Transplant Surgery

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

This opportunity is intended to give exposure to those students who may be interested in a career in transplantation surgery. The students attend surgery, clinical rounds, consultations with patients, and a variety of educational conferences.

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

Underserved Community Medicine

Longitudinal | Global Health, Selective

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is an international non-profit organization dedicated to serving the poor and providing others with the opportunity to serve. This experience will expose the student to the various cultural, environmental and socio-economic factors that impact health status, access to needed services and the delivery of care.

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

University of Notre Dame Australia

3-8 weeks | Global Health, Research

Research experience at the University of Notre Dame Australia for a minimum of 4 weeks, with potential for longer if approved by both institutions

  • Location: External to MCASOM, International
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical, Research

Urology

3-8 weeks | Selective

Students participate in morning and afternoon rounds with the urology resident and consultant. Students spend half their time in the urologic clinic learning about the office practice of urology; the other half of their time is spent in the operating room.

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

Urology

3-8 weeks | Selective

The urological & surgical service is a combined clinic- and hospital-based adult comprehensive surgical service within St. Luke's Hospital. Students are exposed to the complete range of adult urologic problems, from Genito-urinary malignancy to the urological evaluation of incontinence. Students learn about urologic surgery, assist with clinical urology, review urological imaging studies, and examine pathological tissues removed at the time of surgery.

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

Urology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Exposure to urologic oncology, incontinence and voiding dysfunction, Endourology and stone disease, female and male reconstructive urology will comprise most of the exposure. The rotation serves as much to educate the students about the field of urology as it does to educate on a potential career in Urology. The rotation is highly interactive and designed to get the students involved with all department members, including didactic conferences.

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

Urology

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective experience will offer students the opportunity to witness and participate in the care of patients with urologic disorders and the practice of urology.

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

Urology

1-2 weeks | Selective

Join the Urology team and participate in the care of patients with urologic disorders and the practice of urology in the inpatient, outpatient and operating room settings, as well as attend all urological conferences (Pyelogram, Grand Rounds, Stone conference, and Resident Thursday conference).

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

Vascular Surgery

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will learn about Vascular Surgery and the comprehensive care of the vascular patient, including medical, surgical and endovascular care.

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

Virology and Gene Therapy (M.D./M.S.)

Academic LOA | Dual Degree

The Virology and Gene Therapy Master’s Degree through the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Science emphasizes the application of new technologies to discover and diffuse advanced biomedical therapies that will diagnose, treat, and cure increasingly complex population health issues.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Hybrid

Virtual Emergency Medicine

1-2 weeks, Longitudinal | Selective

Virtual Emergency Medicine (EM) provides an introductory learning experience through core competencies of EM using multiple methods of teaching to lay a foundation for students interested in this field. Additionally, it offers an overview of different fellowship pathways including EMS, Pediatric EM, Tactical Medicine, Toxicology, & Wilderness Medicine. Five organ-system modules explore EM conditions through a mixture of publications, podcasts, videos, and a USMLE-style quiz for review.

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

Vision Awareness Program: Community Service Project

1-2 weeks | Selective

Medical students will actively participate in teaching grade school student and engaging in daily skills with visually impaired students. As well as, to learn the basics of the ophthalmic examination, eye trauma, and low vision aides.

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

Visiting Research Internship Program (VRIP)

3-8 weeks | Research

The Visiting Research Internship Program (VRIP) is an eight-week mentored, summer research program designed to enrich medical students' interest in research and health-related careers, particularly clinical/translational research careers.

  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Research, Summer Experience

Von Wald Youth Shelter

Longitudinal | Selective

This selective involves interacting with adolescents experiencing housing instability through engaging volunteer activities. The experience will be complemented by shadowing in community pediatrics. This selective counts as one week of service learning credit.

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

Wilderness Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Learn the basic principles of wilderness first aid, survival, and navigation in San Francisco Peaks, Flagstaff, Arizona, by camping for 4 nights and hands-on skills sessions on altitude illness, splinting, wilderness navigation/survival, patient stabilization/extraction, and basic rope work.

  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person

Wilderness Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will learn about wilderness medicine, outdoor first aid, and how to respond to an emergency in an austere environment. There will be an optional 2-day camping trip at the completion of this course, which encompasses the principles of the course through a drafted emergency evacuation plan.

  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person

Winslow Indian Healthcare

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Learn about Native American health, family medicine, rural medicine and/or neurology at the Winslow Indian Healthcare Center (WIHCC), located in Winslow, AZ. WIHCC proudly serves eight-chapter communities in the Southwest region of the Navajo Nation, caring for an estimated 190,000 Native Americans.

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

Women’s Health Internal Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

Learn more about women’s health care in a primary care setting, including menopause, female sexual dysfunction, contraception, and integrative medicine consults through this shadowing experience. There is an option to rotate a half day through the breast clinic or integrative medicine clinic.

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

Women's Health

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

Rotating in Women’s Health provide a broad experience in the evaluation and management of adult women patients with a comprehensive array of acute and chronic diseases and problems. This rotation enhances students' ability to develop competency in the compassionate care of patients in the area of Women’s health care including patients with complex medical problems.

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