Overview
This rotation is intended to give fourth year medical students from other institutions the opportunity to experience the exceptional training offered at Memorial Hospital of South Bend. This scholarship offers a stipend for travel and living expenses during your time here.
Eligibility
Applicants are eligible if they: a) self-identify as being a member of a traditionally underrepresented racial/ethnic minority group, and b) if the expense of travel/lodging without the scholarship would cause economic hardship.
The Importance of Diversity
At Beacon Health System, the specialty of family medicine is highly valued and recognized as playing a vital role within the health and well-being of our community. We believe this is best accomplished with a diverse group of providers, who bring differing perspectives, lived experiences, and expertise to this practice setting. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values of our health system and central to our mission as an organization. Further, we recognize that having diversity within our training program improves the quality of care for patients as well as the educational opportunities for all learners. Thus, we have made it a central mission within our family medicine residency to encourage medical students who are underrepresented in medicine (URiM) to rotate with our program. This scholarship program provides financial assistance for fourth year medical students planning careers in family medicine that have faced significant socioeconomic disadvantage as well as individualized mentorship to ensure success.
Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency
As our healthcare system continues to evolve, there is no question that our specialty will remain pivotal in addressing the healthcare needs of our country. The Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency is an unopposed program that allows medical students ample hands-on experience with rich learning opportunities across multiple inpatient and outpatient services. As the winner of the 2018 ACGME Baldwin Award, we have demonstrated our strong commitment to education as well as building a respectful and supportive learning environment. Medical students who rotate with us develop an understanding and appreciation of full-spectrum family medicine, while having ample opportunity to assume diagnostic and therapeutic responsibilities of problems commonly managed by family physicians. Further, direct mentorship from faculty, residents, and community providers allows residents to not only contextualize their education, but also to reflect on their unique experiences within healthcare as a member of the URiM community.
Family Medicine URiM Student Elective Scholarship Program
The ultimate goal of this program is to give medical students from other institutions the opportunity to experience the exceptional training offered at Memorial Hospital of South Bend and to appreciate the welcoming environment we have created.
Benefits of the program:
- $1500 stipend for travel and living expenses
- Residency interview with the Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency while here
- Four-week rotation in both our inpatient and outpatient settings
- Course credit from home institution via application through the AAMC supported VSLO program
- Inclusion in resident conferences and activities
- Mentorship by residents, faculty, and medical students as well as residency program leadership
- Dedicated URiM physicians serving as mentors
- Additional meetings with Memorial Hospital faculty can be arranged at the request of the student based on areas of interest
Eligibility:
Applicants must be in good standing at a U.S. accredited medical school and have completed all core clinical clerkships with passing grades by the start of the rotation
Applicants self-identify as URiM and disadvantaged status by these criteria:
o Member of a traditionally underrepresented racial/ethnic minority group (e.g., African American or Black, Hispanic or Latinx, Native American or Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander)
o Students should only apply for the scholarship if the expense of travel and lodging without the scholarship would cause economic hardship for the student
Components of the Elective
Medicine Services
One Week
- Admit and follow patients with the medicine resident
- Present patients during morning table rounds
- Treated like a resident (all orders and notes must be co-signed by the medicine chief resident)
- Attend all noon conferences
Pediatrics
One Week
- Admit and follow patients with the medicine resident
- Present patients during Family Centered Rounds each morning
- Spend 1 night with a resident on night shift
- Attend all noon conferences
Obstetrics
One Week
- Triage obstetric patients, round on postpartum patients, and assist in deliveries with on-call resident
- Attend all teaching sessions
- May assist or observe in surgery
- Typically given at least two opportunities for deliveries
- Attend all noon conferences
Outpatient Family Medicine
One Week
- Time spent rotating in the Family Medicine Clinic
- Evaluate patients in an outpatient setting with opportunities to staff with residents, faculty, and community physicians
- Supervised by faculty and community physicians
- Attend all noon conferences
Sports Medicine, Underserved Medicine, Colonoscopies, 24-hour OB shift
- Flexible time to spend on a particular area of interest in Sports Medicine, Underserved Medicine, screening colonoscopies, and OB
- Opportunities for experiences in injections, ultrasound and other procedures as they present on the inpatient and outpatient services
