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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.