Clerkships and Electives
While some students prefer to do their required Year Three clerkships and Year Four electives close to home, many others spend part of their time working in a great variety of Dartmouth programs, rural and urban, close to campus or half a world away. This breadth of clerkship and elective opportunities makes DMS a particularly compelling choice for students interested in travel.
A partnership between the Dartmouth International Health Group (DIHG) and the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College supports students in their efforts to gain international health-care experience. From smoking cessation programs in Russia to studies that assess the health needs of communities in Nepal, DMS students have remarkable opportunities to touch lives around the world.
Established DMS Clerkship Sites
Required clerkships are organized into six eight-week blocks for each discipline.
Family Practice
Many practice opportunities at a variety
of sites in New England and the rest of the
country, including Pawtucket, Rhode Island;
Bethel, Alaska;Tuba City, Arizona; Augusta,
Maine; and the Florida Keys.
Internal Medicine: Inpatient
DHMC; California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA; and the Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, White River Junction, Vermont.
Second-year student Zoë Unger traveled to Siuna, Nicaragua, to conduct a water-testing project that established levels of bacterial contamination in local water sources. She is pictured here with her landperson, Doña Marina Siles, whom Zoë describes as "like a mother to me."Internal Medicine: Outpatient
DHMC; the Veterans Affairs Medical Center,
White River Junction, Vermont; the Veterans
Affairs Medical Center, Manchester,
New Hampshire; and multiple community
practices in Maine, New Hampshire,
and Vermont.
Neurology
DHMC; local practices; California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA; the Veterans
Affairs Medical Center, White River
Junction, Vermont.
Pediatrics
DHMC; California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA; Maine Medical Center, Portland,
Maine; Children's Hospital of Orange
County, Orange, California; and multiple
private and group-practice sites in the Upper
Connecticut River Valley and elsewhere in
New England.
Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women's Health
DHMC; California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA; Concord Hospital, Concord,
New Hampshire; Hartford Hospital,
Hartford, Connecticut; Maine Medical
Center, Portland, Maine; Southern New
Hampshire Regional Medical Center,
Nashua, New Hampshire; and multiple private
and group-practice sites in the Upper
Connecticut River Valley and elsewhere
in New England.
Psychiatry
DHMC; California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA; the Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, White River Junction, Vermont;
and New Hampshire Hospital, Concord,
New Hampshire.
Surgery
DHMC; and the Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, White River Junction, Vermont.
Cameroon • Cuba • Ecuador • Egypt • Gambia • Ghana • Greece • Guatemala • India • Iran
Kenya • Kosovo • England • New Zealand • Nicaragua • Spain • Swaziland • Thailand • Zambia