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Courses for enrolled students

Code Blue Interprofessional Training

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.


  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical

Communicate, Collaborate, Innovate: Applied Improvisation Tools for More Human-Centric Care

Longitudinal | Selective

Clinical environments demand adaptability, teamwork, and empathy—skills not always taught explicitly. This unique course offers a supportive space to practice them through structured, non-performance improv and theatre activities.


  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: Virtual
  • Type: Humanities in Medicine

Community Health Educator Training

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.


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Service Learning

Community Sports Medicine

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.


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: Hybrid
  • Type: Service Learning

Community Table

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.


  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person

Connecting with the Community: Preventative Health Screenings at Bridges Health LifeGate Food Shelf

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.


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Service Learning

Critical Care

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.


  • Location: Florida
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical, Surgery

Critical Care Medicine

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.


  • Location: Florida
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical

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.


  • Location: Arizona
  • Format: In-Person
  • Type: Clinical

Culinary Medicine I

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.


  • Location: Minnesota
  • Format: In-Person