WHERE CAN I GO?

The whole world is out there waiting for you!

Depending on several factors such as your experience, skill level (eg, fluency in a local language), expense, time available, and local facilities and established contacts and preceptors, various venues might be more or less appropriate for you. This is particularly true in the big diffeerence in you that developed in the interval between the summer following your freshman and preceding your sophomore medical years and the senior year elective period, or post-graduate training.

FACILITIES:

PROGRAMS:

Specialty
Primary Care
Public Health and Prevention

WHERE IN THE WORLD?

Africa
Latin America
Caribbean
Asia
Oceana

REPORTING ON YOUR EXPERIENCE

Your obligations will be to do the best that you can, as always, since this is an irreplacable period of valuable learning time for which you are paying tuition and for which you will be evaluated and given credit. This is not the same as a holiday break, which, though useful, should be enjoyed on time that is not so precious as this experience. An important and indispensable part of your obligation is in reporting on your return. You will, I repeat, you WILL, submit a report on your experience, without which you will receive neither grade nor credit for this experience.

This report serves several useful purposes, not least of all to yourself, but also to help assist in preparation of the next students who may follow you. It also permits us to evaluate not only your efforts and progress, but also the personnel and site of the venue included in your experience on the basis of which report we may make recommendations for changes to improve the program.

The reporting process not only takes written form (and may be included electronically in this Web Site as helpful orientation for those planning to follow your lead), but has also been traditionally the occasion for a fun "show and tell" program near the time of graduation when returning seniors have given a slide show and recounted the experiences of their period abroad.

APPLICATION PROCESS

The international experience must be approved in advance by both the institution sending you abroad (see the attached copy of the application form for the Int Med 350 course), but also the preceptor who will be monitoring your experience.

The elective course Int Med 350 constitutes a minimum of 4 weeks, preferably 8 weeks to a maximum of 12 weeks. You are applying for one of the most valuable and unique courses in the medical school curriculum, for which you will be paying tuition, and earning credit, a grade, and a valuable formative experience in your personal and professional life; do not short-change yourself. Enjoy it to the Max!