Coolest 4th Year Electives

[Staphylococcus Aureus]

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After hearing about NASA's rotation, dive medicine and such, what other opportunities are there for unique, unusual, and interesting electives?

 

[BurghStudent]

You can do a medical editing elective at JAMA.

 

[Staphylococcus Aureus]

Big Sky Ski Resort has an elective, and there's apparently a wilderness elective called "Survivor: Las Vegas"

 

[sazerac]

Johnson & Wales has a culinary medicine elective in Rhode Island, Louisiana, and Colorado. Though it seems a shame to learn how to cook healthy if you're going to eat nothing but hospital food PGY1.

 

[WinslowPringle]

I thought forensic pathology was pretty neat - autopsies and crime! Little bit different from TV but much more interesting.

 

[Stagg737]

Not necessarily super cool, but a FB friend did an "alternative medicine" rotation. Apparently they started every morning with yoga, did meditation every day, and talked about whether specific alternative treatments actually worked for specific treatments (ie, acupuncture for chronic low back pain, aromatherapy and meditation for anxiety, etc). Sounded like it could either be really cool or horrible depending on whether the attendings actually took a scientific approach or are holistic nut cases. From what she posted it sounded like a little of both.

 

[Pathdocmd]

I did a History of Medicine elective at MUSC. I got my first peer reviewed publication out of it.

 

[Staphylococcus Aureus]

cruise ship medicine...brush up on norovirus!

 

[Staphylococcus Aureus]

I did a History of Medicine elective at MUSC. I got my first peer reviewed publication out of it.

I'm going to look into that, sounds really interesting!

 

[ChrisMack390]

My friends that have done various versions of wilderness medicine have all loved it. One girl went up to Maine and spent time on a lobster boat tending to various injuries and general poor health of lobstermen.

 

[Lua]

Pre-Med/Pre-Health Emergency and Wilderness Medicine Colorado

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[PL198]

You can do a medical editing elective at JAMA.

OP asked for cool, not sleeping aides

 

[Staphylococcus Aureus]

Anyone know if civilian med students can rotate at military hospitals?