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 Geisel School programs, rural and urban, close to campus or half a world away. This breadth of clerkship and elective opportunities makes Geisel School a particularly compelling choice for students interested in travel and global health.
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, Geisel School students have remarkable opportunities to touch lives around the world.
For a partial list of the countries where student recipients of DIHG-Dickey Fellowships have worked, see below.
Established Geisel School
Clerkship Sites
Family Medicine
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; and
Shiprock, New Mexico.
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; D-H, Manchester, New Hampshire;
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 the Geisel School of Medicine
--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
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.
Pediatrics
DHMC; Fort Defiance Indian Hospital, Fort Defiance, Arizona; Children's Hospital
of Orange County, Orange, California; California Pacific Medical Center,
San Francisco, California; Maine Medical
Center, Portland, Maine 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, California; New Hampshire Hospital,
Concord, New Hampshire; and the Veterans Affairs
Medical Center, White River Junction,
Vermont.
Surgery
DHMC; Concord Hospital, Concord, New
Hampshire; Alice Peck Day Hospital, Lebanon, New Hampshire; and the Veterans Affairs Medical
Center, White River Junction, Vermont.
"The opportunity is there if you want it."
Cameroon • Cuba • Ecuador • Egypt • Gambia • Ghana • Greece • Guatemala • India • Iran
Kenya • Kosovo • England • New Zealand • Nicaragua • Spain • Swaziland • Thailand • Zambia