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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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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