Selectives
A "selective" is a short, flexible, academic enrichment course of the student's own choosing that is interspersed between course blocks. Combined with the block structure of courses, selectives expand subject offerings, encourage self-directed learning and renew curiosity while they complement the major themes of the MMS curriculum.
About selectives
Selectives are each one to two weeks long, compared to blocks, which are three to six weeks long. Selectives enhance the core curriculum by offering a tremendous variety of learning experiences, ranging from complementary medicine, to maternal fetal medicine to public health to technology to humanities in medicine
How selectives work
In each of the first two years of Mayo Medical School (MMS), every student takes six selectives. Four of the six may be chosen from an established list of 18 offerings. Students also may design their own selectives to accommodate valid educational needs and interests - providing the selectives have a clearly stated objective, the support of faculty and the Dean, and culminate with a personal portfolio documenting the experience.
The following are selective topics undertaken by Mayo medical students in the 2006-2007 academic year:
- Anatomy
- Anesthesiology
- Biomedical Informatics
- Chaplin Care
- Complementary Alternative Medicine
- Critical Care
- Cardiology
- General Internal Medicine
- Healthcare for the Underserved
- Humanities
- Infectious Disease
- International Health
- Laboratory Exploration
- Literature in Medicine
- Midwifery
- Obstetrics
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- Palliative Care
- Pediatrics
- Physician as Patient
- Prison Medicine
- Procedural Skills
- Public Health
- Research
- Rural Medicine
- Sleep Medicine
- Social Work
- Surgery
- Surgical ICU
- The Other Side of Medicine
- Transplant Medicine
- Travel Medicine
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Why selectives?
A selective supports and enriches MMS curriculum goals in the following ways.
A selective:
- deepens mastery of content and empathy for patients
- broadens the reach of curriculum content areas
- encourages innovation and leadership
- serves individual learning styles
- supports initiative learning in which the student takes responsibility for enriching his or her own understanding of personally meaningful medical and health care issues
Why MMS and selectives?
Selectives are quintessentially Mayo: innovation to serve excellence.
Selectives were created by MMS faculty to serve MMS' goal of fully preparing students for 21st century medicine through a curriculum that is broad, deep, collaborative, creative, and personally meaningful. Selectives acknowledge the teaching authority of a variety of sources and experiences - and encourage students to evaluate them and pursue them.
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