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Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

Complex Dermatology

1-2 weeks, 3-8 weeks | Selective

The basic knowledge of dermatology should allow students to determine a correct diagnosis and understand the management of basic dermatologic disease. In addition, students will learn to recognize categories of dermatologic diseases requiring referral to a dermatologist.


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

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

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
Courses for enrolled students.

Critical Care Medicine

1-2 weeks | Selective

This selective course offers students the opportunity to experience the critical care physician’s role within a team of healthcare providers. Designed by the Critical Care Interest Group, this course provides a hybrid of both virtual and in-person experiences.


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

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
Courses for enrolled students.

Database Searching for Medical Literature

1-2 weeks | Selective

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.


  • Location: Arizona, Florida, Minnesota
  • Format: Virtual
  • Type: Research