1-2 weeks | Selective
Students will encounter pathology ranging from obscure diseases to more common illnesses that present to the Emergency Department. Students will observe the evaluation and treatment of critically ill patients from admission into the Emergency Department to discharge at Mayo Clinic Hospital.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Observation and participation (as situations allow) in the Saint Marys Emergency Department.
1-2 weeks | Selective
This selective provides hands-on exposure to the field of emergency medicine. Procedures (e.g., endotracheal intubation, vascular access, lumbar punctures, and suturing) will be learned in the simulation center, while a shadowing experience provides patient contact.
Longitudinal | Selective
In this Selective, students will serve as editors of the Enrichment Newsletter. The Enrichment Newsletter provides the student body with information about current Enrichment opportunities, including Selectives, Global Health, Dual Degrees, etc.
1-2 weeks | Research, Selective
A close look at scientific journals shows that good science and good writing do not often coexist and that easily understood writing is hard to find. Learn about the publications process and about the function and content of each section of a biomedical paper.
3-8 weeks | Selective
Opportunities will work directly with family medicine residents and faculty. They will see patients in the outpatient clinic, the hospital, sports clinic, and possibly in the emergency room or nursing home. Students will see a wide variety of patients of all ages and with all types of medical problems.
1-2 weeks | Selective
Students will experience the family physician’s role in providing continuity care from birth through adulthood in the outpatient setting. Students will observe family medicine faculty in the outpatient clinic and will see a variety of patients of all ages and with all types of medical problems.
1-2 weeks | Selective
This selective showcases the breadth of family medicine through interactive lectures, shadowing physicians and non-physicians, and hands-on skill workshops while offering an opportunity to experience the family physician’s role within the health care team.
1-2 weeks | Selective
This course combines lecture and interactive learning in a kitchen setting. Lectures provide the evidence for the impact of diet interventions on disease outcomes. Students will learn cooking strategies and techniques for incorporating functional foods into meals and for preparing meal plans.
1-2 weeks | Selective
The student will shadow at the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner. In their state-of-the-art facility, talented and dedicated staff of highly trained physicians make public inquiry into sudden and unnatural deaths to protect the living from an untimely death.