Welcome to the University of Michigan Medical School Visiting Student Program Website

The University of Michigan Medical School will be one of 10 host schools using VSAS, the new Visiting Student Application Service, to receive visiting student applications starting in April 2008. To apply to our school, please complete and submit an electronic VSAS application for your preferred electives and dates. For more information on VSAS, please see www.aamc.org/vsas  http://www.aamc.org/vsas  or contact  vsas@aamc.org  mailto:vsas@aamc.org or (202) 478-9878. For more information on The University of Michigan Medical School Visiting Student Electives, please view http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/visiting/electives.htm

VSAS opens for student use on Tuesday, April 15, 2008. 

We will begin to process visiting student applications on Thursday, May 1, 2008.  The last date to apply for a visiting student elective periods 10-12 is December 15, 2008.

The University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) offers a limited number of clinical electives to students who are in their final year of medical school at an LCME or AOA accredited school in the U.S. or Canada. 

Students attending foreign medical schools are generally not accepted.  For a determination of eligibility, international students should contact Kate Durand (kdurand@umich.edu) at the Global Reach Office. International students whose credentials have not been screened for eligibility by the Global Reach Office will NOT be accepted.

Students may complete a maximum of 2 months of clerkships.  Electives are not available to visiting students during May and June.  Only the electives listed on this web site are available to visiting students.  Research electives are not allowed. 

Under no circumstances shall a potential visiting student make independent arrangements with a faculty member for an elective prior to submitting an application to the Office of Student Programs. 

To be considered for a clinical elective:

• Students must be in their final year and in good academic standing at their home school
• Students must have taken & passed the USMLE Step 1 exam
• Students must have taken and passed required 3rd year clerkships in Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics and Surgery
• Students must have completed 48 weeks of required clerkships in the same medical school at which they completed their basic science training

In assigning students to available clerkships, the following priority is followed:

      1. University of Michigan students
      2. In-state students from Michigan State University &   
          Wayne State University students
      3. Out-of-state students
      4. International students screened and determined to be 
          eligible by the Global Reach Office.

Please direct questions to Linda Habay, Visiting Student Coordinator, lmatevia@umich.edu