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Courses for enrolled students.

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

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


  • Location: Florida
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical
Courses for enrolled students.

Child Maltreatment & Neglect

1-2 weeks | Selective

Students will participate in the Mayo Child Abuse team care and evaluation of the child victim. They will participate in case reviews, observe forensic interviews, participate in exams, and hospital consults while working with multi-disciplinary team members.


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical
Courses for enrolled students.

Children with Autism: A Spectrum of Care

Longitudinal | Selective

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


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Service Learning
Courses for enrolled students.

Circle the City

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

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


  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Service Learning
Courses for enrolled students.

Clark Family Scholarship

| Dual Degree

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


  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Type: Scholarship Opportunities
Courses for enrolled students.

Clinic Notes: Music & Medicine

Longitudinal | Selective

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


  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Humanities in Medicine
Courses for enrolled students.

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

Academic LOA | Dual Degree, Certificate

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


  • Location: External to MCASOM
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Research
Courses for enrolled students.

Clinical Pathology

1-2 weeks | Selective

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


  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical
Courses for enrolled students.

Clinical Pharmacology

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.


  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical
Courses for enrolled students.

Coaching & Preparing for Life in Medicine

Longitudinal | Selective

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


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid