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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3-8 weeks | Selective
Acquainting students with the common medical problems and normal physical and mental health of adolescents. Rotation information will be sent to the student prior to rotation start date.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
| 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Longitudinal | Selective
Florida-based longitudinal selective to achieve mastery of 13 EPAs while learning collectively with your student colleagues.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3-8 weeks | Selective
Students are supervised by & round with a resident on the inpatient service. Students will be encouraged to attend cardiac tests & procedures on inpatients (cardiac catheterization, electrophysiological studies, treadmill testing, cardioversions, transthoracic & transesophageal echocardiography).
Longitudinal | Selective
Gain early exposure to careers in Cardiovascular Medicine (including both the medical and surgical career paths). We want to provide our members with workshops, panels, and research opportunities, while also leveraging the group to make meaningful contributions to the greater Scottsdale/Phoenix communities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
| 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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Students will evaluate patients from a pharmacist perspective, round on a multidisciplinary team, and participate in pharmacotherapy discussions focused on clinical pharmacology that will prepare the learner for USMLE Step 1 and third-year clerkships.
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.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Students will work with internists and internist-geriatricians within the Division of PCIM as they provide ambulatory primary care to adult patients with complex needs. The student will observe and learn history-taking and physical exam skills as patients are evaluated in an efficient model of care.
3-8 weeks | Selective
Giving students the opportunity to manage pediatric patients in a primary care environment. Emphasis is on ambulatory, problem-solving encounters with patients and their families in preventive, acute, and chronic situations.
3-8 weeks | Selective
Giving students the opportunity to manage pediatric patients in a primary care environment at Olmsted Medical Center. Emphasis is on ambulatory, problem-solving encounters with patients and their families in preventive, acute, and chronic situations.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
The basic knowledge of dermatology should allow students to determine a correct diagnosis and understand the management of basic dermatologic disease. In addition, students will learn to recognize categories of dermatologic diseases requiring referral to a dermatologist.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks | Selective
This selective course offers students the opportunity to experience the critical care physician’s role within a team of healthcare providers. Designed by the Critical Care Interest Group, this course provides a hybrid of both virtual and in-person experiences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Observation and participation (as situations allow) in the Saint Marys Emergency Department.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
| 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
This selective prepares students who plan on careers in the surgical specialties to have a broad understanding of patient care and disease process management in general surgery. Students are under the direct supervision of consulting surgeons in both the outpatient clinic and the hospitals.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
Students will participate in all facets of operative patient care. General Surgery services include Endocrine, Breast, MIS (includes Bariatric), and HPB. Also available is Vascular, Cardiovascular, Thoracic, Pediatric, Abdominal Transplant, and Colon and Rectal 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.
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.
Longitudinal | Global Health, Selective
Global health is a discipline focused on promoting equity of physical, mental, and social well-being regardless of national borders. This selective will emphasize interactive learning and discussion with guest speakers and student-led discussions of relevant global health literature.
Longitudinal | Global Health, Selective
Medical students with career interests in global and public health would benefit from a formal opportunity to engage with epidemiologic concepts and their implications in clinical medicine through analysis of global and public health-focused scientific literature.
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.
1-2 weeks | Global Health, Selective
This is a one-week selective focusing on furthering understanding of basic and intermediate Global Health topics.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Observe and learn about Occupational Therapy for the hand in the Hand Therapy Mayo Clinic AZ outpatient clinic.
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.
| 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks | Global Health, Selective
The Health Inequities selective provides students with the opportunity to engage in dialogues about the systemic obstacles to health that individuals may face across a variety of specialties.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Developed and led by faculty from the Masters in Health Innovation (MHI) degree, this selective will introduce participants to the science of innovation, human centered design, problem-solving and business development for innovative healthcare products and services.
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.
1-2 weeks | Global Health, Selective
This selective explores health law, policy and advocacy through focused study of a single policy issue, as well as more general health law and policy introduction. It is augmented by in-person meetings with legislators and government relation professionals.
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.
1-2 weeks | Global Health, Selective
This selective focus on Ukraine, the largest country located entirely within Europe, as a case study of health systems development, exploring themes in global health, public health, and health policy. Discussions will involve leaders in Ukrainian healthcare reform and public health efforts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3-8 weeks, Academic LOA | Global Health, Research
Research and/or clinical opportunities are available at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3-8 weeks | Selective
This rotation provides an intense experience in high-risk obstetrics, but also offers exposure to prenatal ultrasound diagnostic and evaluation techniques. Much of the teaching is one-on-one with the consultant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Longitudinal | Selective
Most medical terms are derived from etymological roots of Greek or Latin origin. It is therefore both advantageous and valuable to familiarize oneself with these roots, as this knowledge will provide its possessor with added context in the art of navigating through the immense medical lexicon.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Introduction to medical illustration as a communication and educational tool.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Students will work directly with staff consultants & Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery fellows in both the outpatient & inpatient setting in direct patient contact. Anticipated patients will be women with fibroids, endometriosis, pelvic pain, adenomyosis, abnormal uterine bleeding, and post-menopausal bleeding.
Longitudinal | Selective
At the REACH clinic, we often see patients who are uninsured. They often qualify for subsidized coverage, e.g., MN Care, MA, etc. These patients often need assistance with enrolling in this kind of coverage. As a Certified MNsure Navigator you will meet with patients to help them enroll.
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.
1-2 weeks | Selective
The oncology selective encompasses oncologic care across multiple disciplines (including medical oncology, hematology-oncology, surgery, radiation oncology, and pathology) blended with didactic lectures on clinical and research topics and peer-to-peer debriefing times.
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.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
Students will have inpatient or outpatient experience seeing patients with acute and chronic kidney disease, hypertension, kidney stones, and kidney transplants.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
The Nephrology service is made up of patients with acute kidney injury; fluid, electrolyte and acid-base problems; renal parenchymal abnormalities with chronic kidney disease; nephrolithiasis and hypertension.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Longitudinal, Academic LOA | Dual Degree
Northeastern’s Online MS in Management program is a highly specialized program designed for individuals seeking to take on leadership roles in the healthcare industry without any clinician experience required. The master's degree program has two areas of specialization: Healthcare Administration and Digital Transformation in Healthcare.
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.
Longitudinal | Selective
The Culinary Medicine Selective acknowledges the lack of nutrition education provided in the traditional medical school curriculum and narrows the gap by providing students an environment to complete online nutrition modules followed by in-person cooking sessions together as a group.
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.
3-8 weeks | Selective
Experiences involve outpatient care of reproductive endocrinology patients and exposure to surgical procedures and assisted reproductive technologies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, neuroophthalmology, oculoplastics, retina, and strabismus.
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.
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.
3-8 weeks | Selective
The students time will be spent on the Orthopedic trauma, hand, sports, and pediatrics service. Hand surgery is a preceptor-based rotation, while the others are team based. Participation will be both in clinic and the operating room.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
Orthopedic surgery deals with the development, restoration, preservation and investigation of the form and function of the spine, extremities, and associated structures by physical, medical, and surgical means.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 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
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
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
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.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
Palliative medicine is a relatively new medical specialty described as an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families’ facing problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3-8 weeks | Selective
This selective introduces students to diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the common gastrointestinal and liver diseases of children and adolescents.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
Students in this experience participate in pediatric cardiology care under the direct supervision of a staff pediatric cardiologist at Naples Community Hospital. The rotation typically consists of rounding on inpatient cardiology consults and evaluating patients in general pediatric cardiology clinic.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
This rotation typically consists of rounding with the inpatient team in the morning, followed by a variety of experiences in the afternoon catered to the students’ interests and the areas of most activity.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
During this rotation, students are expected to perform as sub-interns and hence become very familiar with the management details of the children in the PICU. In addition to the core curriculum lectures, readings are assigned by the consultants.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
Students will gain exposure to a wide range of experiences in the care of minor and major traumatic injuries, multiple pediatric medical illnesses, care of the poisoned pediatric patient, and pediatric patients with psychiatric illness while working with faculty at Naples Community Hospital.
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.
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.
3-8 weeks | Selective
Working primarily in the outpatient setting, see patients under the supervision of pediatric hematology-oncology physicians to provide consultation for blood disorders, gaining an understanding of how to work-up specific concerns such as anemia, bleeding/thrombosis, sickle cell, etc.
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.
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.
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.
3-8 weeks | Selective
Students will be introduced to the clinical presentations and current research about the major “Neurodevelopmental Disabilities” in infancy and childhood.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
Designed to give students an appreciation for the role of ophthalmology as a pediatric specialty and an opportunity for them to become more accomplished, confident, and capable when presented with a child with ocular complaints.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
Students will participate on the pediatric orthopedic surgery service in a variety of capacities and will function in the role of an acting intern at Nemours Children’s Clinic and Wolfson’s Children’s Hospital. Students will take histories and perform physical exams, have in-patient responsibilities, and participate in emergency and selective operative procedures as either an observer or assistant.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks | Global Health, Selective
Team spends a week at the National Center for Maternal and Child Health (NCMCH) in Mongolia working with their colleagues consulting, teaching, lecturing and helping build appropriate infrastructure for better care of children in Mongolia.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Longitudinal | Selective
The Plastic Surgery Experience aims to increase engagement and interest amongst the medical student body regarding the specialty of plastic and reconstructive surgery. Hoping to provide the benefit of producing long-term mentorships that will assist medical students in the pursuit of their future careers.
Longitudinal | Selective
In this selective, students will learn how to summarize medical literature, interpret study design and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the article. Students will improve their ability to critically evaluate literature and apply these analytical skills in their own scientific writing.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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
Longitudinal | Selective
Medical students will be trained on the principles of data science through guided mentorship on a data science project of their interest.
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.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Allowing students the opportunity to observe and participate in the evaluation and treatment of adult patients with neuropsychiatric disorders.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
Medical students work directly with an interdisciplinary outpatient treatment team, including a consulting psychologist, in the case conceptualization and evidence-based cognitive-behavioral treatment of adult patients with chronic pain and other somatic symptoms.
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.
3-8 weeks | Selective
Students will be involved in the psychiatric assessment of medically ill hospitalized patients. Objectives of the rotation are to learn to perform a thorough Psychiatric patient evaluation, formulate a comprehensive differential diagnosis, coordinate care with primary teams managing patients, provide recommendations from a psychopharmacologic and therapeutic perspective to manage psychiatrically ill patients in the course of their medical care.
3-8 weeks | Selective
Generally students are assigned to evaluate patients when they are initially admitted to the hospital. Patients are then evaluated by the resident and staff consultant consecutively. Students are encouraged to follow their patients to appropriate areas, such as oncology, bronchoscopy, pulmonary function and special procedure laboratories. Students are expected to present on rounds and participate in discussions with the patients and families.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
1-2 weeks | Selective
This selective will introduce students to rural medicine and current rural health issues. Students will have the opportunity to learn from medical professionals working in rural areas, as well as from rural residents themselves.
Longitudinal | Selective
"Students engage in a series of challenges designed to increase their own happiness and build more productive habits. Based on Yale Professor Laurie Santos’ “The Science of Well-being” course, this selective reveals misconceptions about happiness and the research that can help us change."
Longitudinal | Selective
This medical improvisation class refines cognitive and communication skills in novel and surprising ways. Offered with increasing frequency in US medical schools, improv classes are engaging, relevant to diverse medical settings, and appropriate for students with a wide range of interests.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Physician reluctance, embarrassment, and perceived constraints, including time and training limitations, often hinder discussions about sexual health with patients. Previous research indicates that this discomfort begins during medical school. This session aims to assist second-year medical students in comprehending the diverse facets of sexual and reproductive health across different life stages.
1-2 weeks | Selective
This selective focuses on violence against women and gender minorities while honoring and recognizing male victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, with the goal of highlight the role of medical professionals in recognizing signs of sexual assault, trafficking, and domestic abuse.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
During this rotation, students will work with the sleep medicine physician seeing patients in the clinical setting. Students will learn the basics of normal sleep physiology, respiratory physiology during wake vs sleep and the neuroreceptors involved in maintaining sleep. Students will learn how to diagnose different sleep disordered breathing, the importance of a detailed airway examination and the importance of the pharyngeal muscles that are involved in breathing.
1-2 weeks | Selective
This selective allows for two weeks in the outpatient Sleep Medicine clinic, seeing patients with sleep complaints or symptoms in coordination with attendings and fellows. Students would also be given the opportunity to observe daytime sleep latency testing or overnight polysomnography.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Sleep medicine is an interdisciplinary field devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of neurological, respiratory, and psychiatric sleep disorders such as sleep disordered breathing, insomnia, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, and parasomnias.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Observe and participate in outpatient care at the Southwest Center, which provides affirming and inclusive services to promote well-being and advance health equity for diverse communities, including people of color, LGBTQIA2S+ and Queer individuals, and those affected by HIV.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Students can request experience in a specific laboratory and/or propose a project with the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. The week will allow the student to work alongside a DLMP consultant in a laboratory setting on a project/topic/research interest that is mutually agreed upon.
1-2 weeks | Selective
This customized selective allows students to shadow hospital chaplains to observe how they work to supplement the medical team in caring for patients and families. Opportunities exist to shadow an array of inpatient services as well as with chaplains from a variety of faith traditions.
1-2 weeks | Research, Selective
Learn important, useful concepts and skills for research endeavors in a self-paced, low-pressure way, using the online Essentials of Clinical and Translational Science (ECATS) and JMP statistical software modules. Option to meet with a Mayo statistician if you have a dataset you need help analyzing.
Longitudinal | Selective
The rate of homelessness in Maricopa County is on the rise. It has increased 33% since 2020 and shows no signs of slowing down. These undomiciled individuals often have diminished access to health care. Mayo Clinic's Street Medicine Interest Group has an ongoing partnership with Street Medicine Phoenix. More information about Street Medicine Phoenix can be found on their website: https://streetmedphx.wixsite.com/uarizona
Longitudinal | Selective
Street Medicine is an emerging field focused on delivering health and social services to the unsheltered homeless in their own environment, and “to engage people experiencing homelessness where they are and on their own terms to reduce or eliminate barriers to care access and follow-through”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
3-8 weeks | Selective
Designed for the post-clerkship medical student seriously interested in pursuing a career in surgical oncology. The student will have the option to rotate on one of three services focusing on surgical oncology: colon & rectal; hepatobiliary; and breast/endocrine/melanoma/sarcoma.
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.
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.
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.
| 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.
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.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Understand the current state of US healthcare, the challenges it presents to our nation, and outline the path toward a healthcare system characterized by better effectiveness and efficiency.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective
University of Florida Health Jacksonville is the only Level 1 Trauma Center in Northeast Florida. There are approximately 4,000 trauma evaluations per year, with 18% being penetrating trauma. This rotation is on a busy trauma service and students will be expected to be involved in all aspects of patient care including the initial evaluation of trauma patients, daily rounds, and operative cases.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
1-2 weeks | Selective
Students will learn about Vascular Surgery and the comprehensive care of the vascular patient, including medical, surgical and endovascular care.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
