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 with her landlady, Doña Marina Siles 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.

DHMC at dusk

"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