While some students prefer to do their clerkships and electives close to home, many others spend part of their time learning in a great variety of Geisel programs, rural and urban, close to campus or half a world away. This breadth of clerkship and elective opportunities makes Geisel a particularly compelling choice for students interested in gaining exposure to multiple approaches to health care delivery nationally and globally.
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 students have remarkable opportunities to touch lives around the world. Countries where student recipients of DIHG-Dickey Fellowships have worked include Cameroon, Cuba, Ecuador, Gambia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, India, Iran, Kenya, Kosovo, England, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, and Zambia.
Established Geisel Clerkship Sites
Family Medicine: Many practice opportunities at a variety of sites in New England and the rest of the country, including Ninilchik, Alaska; Valdez, Alaska; Fort Defiance, Arizona; California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California; Augusta, Maine; Stevensville, Montana; 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.
Advanced 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 the region and across states; including Watertown, New York and Columbus, Mississippi.
Neurology: DHMC; California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California; D-H Manchester, New Hampshire; Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville , FL.
Obstetrics and Gynecology: DHMC; California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California; Concord Hospital, Concord, New Hampshire; Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut; 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; 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.
In the video below, Jeannie Ringelberg talks about her experience during a medicine clerkship at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, a popular clerkship site for Geisel medical students.