Medical students attend highly regarded intensive sessions in cardiovascular examination and identification of heart sounds. Students contact us years later about how this experience has influenced their skills as physicians over many years. Medical students also have access to elective courses relating to many cardiology subspecialties, including:

• Cardiac ultrasound echo & doppler
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Cardiothoracic surgery
• Clinical electrocardiography
• Diabetes enrichment
• Cardiac imaging
• Native American health services
• Pediatric cardiology

Current medical students can explore the opportunities offered by the University of Arizona Medical Student Cardiology Interest Group.

Awards and Scholarships

The Division of Cardiology firmly believes in fostering interest and feeding the passion of trainees for cardiology. Students with particular interest in cardiovascular research have found many opportunities with the Sarver Heart Center. Many cardiovascular medicine faculty support students pursuing research honors. Annual research awards can include:

• The Zenas B. Noon Award to outstanding cardiology clerkship students in both Tucson and Phoenix
• The Margarito Chavez Student Award to an undergraduate or medical student conducting promising research that contributes to the improved prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cardiovascular disease

Medical students participate in a variety of clinical and educational experiences through the Division of Dermatology.

Medical students participate in a variety of clinical and educational experiences through the Division of Endocrinology.

Our medical students participate in a variety of clinical and educational experiences through the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Medical students participate in a variety of clinical and educational experiences through the Division of General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, gaining exposure to the following related issues:

• Adult medicine
• Adverse drug events reporting
• Antibiotic resistance
• Depression
• Diabetes
• Elder care
• End-of-life care
• Genomic medicine
• Geriatrics
• Hypertension
• Immunization
• Lipids and cardiovascular risk management
• Menopause
• Obesity and weight management
• Pain management
• Palliative care
• Precision medicine
• Rare diseases
• Substance abuse and addictions

We lecture in the medical student curriculum around both blood disorders and oncologic disorders.

To enrich their medical school education, students can pursue short-term fellowships during vacation periods or extended full-time research experiences through other college programs, such as the Curriculum on Medical Ignorance, which improves skills to recognize and deal productively with ignorance, uncertainty and the unknown, and the Medical Student Research Program, which connects medical students with mentors who provide guidance on their research.

Medical students participate in a variety of clinical and educational experiences through the Division of Infectious Diseases. Current medical students should also explore related opportunities offered by student clubs, including the Internal Medicine Student Association.

Hospital medicine over the last few years has gained momentum, and now represents one of the largest growing communities of physicians in the United States. Many of our students and residents wish to pursue careers as hospitalists. As a part of our mentorship program, our faculty members are actively involved in the education of third- and fourth-year medical students at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson as well as at Midwestern University. In addition to day-to-day bedside clinical education, our faculty members partake in classroom didactics, shelf-exams and U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) reviews for our students.

Current students should also explore related opportunities offered by student clubs, including the Internal Medicine Student Association.

Amy Sussman, MD, Department of Medicine clerkship director, Nephrology Fellowship Program director and an associate professor of medicine, developed an innovative medical student elective in renal medicine, which breaks away from the conventional inpatient nephrology rotation. This novel elective aims to provide a more global and holistic approach to renal medicine, in which the student goes to dialysis units, attends outpatient nephrology clinics, sees a kidney transplant and dialysis vascular access surgery, and also visits the research laboratories of the University of Arizona Kidney and Vascular Program to learn about innovative research initiatives. Does Kidney and Vascular Program still exist?

In general, medical students participate in a variety of clinical and educational experiences through the Division of Nephrology both during the third-year internal medicine clerkship and during fourth-year elective courses relating to all of the subspecialties within the Department of Medicine.

A typical rotation for a third-year medical student involves exposure to nephrology via the ambulatory clinic setting. An elective rotation for the fourth-year medical student involves two weeks of inpatient consultative service and the last two weeks spending time in the ambulatory setting. This includes time spent in a general nephrology clinic, transplant nephrology clinic and outpatient dialysis (both hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis), participation in kidney transplant surgery and in-depth evaluation of urine sediment.

Medical students participate in a variety of clinical and educational experiences through the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. They also have access to elective courses relating to all of the core areas related to PACCS:

• Anesthesia/anesthesiology
• Cardiothoracic surgery
• Diagnostic radiology
• General medicine
• Intensive care medicine
• Neuromuscular disorders
• Arthritis and clinical immunology
• Care of the older adult
• Emergency medicine
• Immunobiology
• Medical imaging
• Pediatric critical care
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• Coronary care unit
• Epidemiology
• Integrated emergency medicine/critical care
• Medical toxicology
• Pulmonary consultation service

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What will medical students learn during their rheumatology rotation?