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
Family Practice
Many practice opportunities at a variety
of sites in New England and the rest of
the country, including Valdez, Alaska;
Fort Defiance, Arizona; Tuba City, Arizona;
California Pacific Medical Center, San
Francisco, California; Augusta, Maine;
Shiprock, New Mexico; and Pawtucket,
Rhode Island.
Internal Medicine: Inpatient
DHMC; California Pacific Medical Center,
San Francisco, California; and the Veterans
Affairs Medical Center, White River
Junction, Vermont.
Geriatric and Ambulatory Medicine
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; California Pacific Medical Center,
San Francisco, California; regional practices;
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.""We have a diversity expectation at Dartmouth—students are encouraged
and given every opportunity to experience different patient populations,
socioeconomic settings, cultures, and styles of medicine."
—Eric Shirley, M.D., Assistant Dean for Medical Education
Pediatrics
DHMC; California Pacific Medical Center,
San Francisco, California; Maine Medical
Center, Portland, Maine; Children's Hospital
of Orange County, Orange, California; Fort
Defiance Indian Hospital, Fort Defiance,
Arizona and multiple private and group
practice sites in the Upper Connecticut
River Valley and elsewhere in New England.
Obstetrics and Gynecology
DHMC; California Pacific Medical Center,
San Francisco, California; Concord Hospital,
Concord, New Hampshire; Hartford
Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut; Maine
Medical Center, Portland, Maine; Southern
New Hampshire Regional Medical
Center, Nashua, New Hampshire; Cheshire Medical Center, Keene, New Hampshire; and Monadnock Community Hospital, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Psychiatry
DHMC; California Pacific Medical Center,
San Francisco, California; the Veterans Affairs
Medical Center, White River Junction,
Vermont; and New Hampshire Hospital,
Concord, New Hampshire.
Surgery
DHMC; Concord Hospital, Concord, New
Hampshire; 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