This rotation is intended to give 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.
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
