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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.

Clerkship Crash Course, Longitudinal

Longitudinal | Selective

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


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

Clerkship Crash Course, Workshop

1-2 weeks | Selective

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


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical
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: 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 Bootcamp - MD-PhD

1-2 weeks | Selective

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


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person
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