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SMHS offers formal electives abroad for fourth-year medical students.
Opportunities are available in Austria, Brazil, China, Egypt, Japan, ZAE and Vietnam, to
name a few. For example, under GW’s agreement with the Mission Interuniversitaire
de Coordination des Echanges Franco-Américan (MICEFA), a consortium of 14
Paris universities, fourth-year GW medical students and sixth-year
French medical students can participate in elective rotations at
one another’s institutions. Students’ choices have included cardiology, radiology,
pediatrics and plastic/reconstructive surgery. Elective rotations
last from four to eight weeks, during which students receive an
immersion experience in the host country’s healthcare system
and personal attention from faculty. Students can also participate in an Operation Smile
Mission.
Students can also plan rotations on their own. Faculty members and the Office of International
Medicine Programs are available to assist in finding locations through our partner institutions,
as well as identifying sources of funding. For more information about GWUMC’s international student programs,
visit the website at www.gwumc.edu/imp.
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The OSO is a resource to all students in the School of Medicine
and Health Sciences (SMHS) providing a large database of national and international programs,
research, electives, conferences, and other educational opportunities, many of them funded.
The OSO further supports students’ interests
through educational scholarships. For further information go to www.StudentOpps.com
Track Program:
The Track Program is an elective experience that allows students, beginning in Year 1, to choose a program of study in
many arenas outside of the standard clinical curriculum.
- Community/Urban Health
- Emergency Management
- Global Health
- Health Policy
- Research
- Medical Humanities Leadership
- Medical Education
- MD/MPH Program
- Integrative Medicine
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Third-year students may have the opportunity to participate in an
alternative curriculum that has two six-month blocks – one that is
exclusively inpatient and the other that is exclusively ambulatory.
Advantages to this curriculum include: longer experiences in
Internal Medicine/Family Medicine, Surgery and Pediatrics; more
exposure to faculty mentors; ambulatory experience in Women’s Health
and Psychiatry; opportunity to see more “realistic” practice
environments; opportunity to sample more “electives” earlier in
medical training; and flexibility in timing of
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