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.
