Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (Minnesota)

Visiting medical student clerkship elective on the Medical Chest Service at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus. Students attend morning rounds (approx. 8 a.m. to 12 noon) with staff consultants and medical residents, evaluate newly admitted hospitalized patients with thoracic diseases and internal medicine problems, and may stay overnight to follow critically ill patients. They learn laboratory-based procedures such as bronchoscopy and pulmonary function tests, and may present a topic informally. Attendance at scheduled conferences is required. Evaluation is by assigned residents and staff consultants via the MedHub portal. Applications go through the AAMC's VSLO service, which charges its own application fee. Cost for international applicants, as Mayo's application page states it: "Submit a $350 (USD) non-refundable application fee."