Welcome to the Internships and Undergraduate Medical Education Programs
The Internship and Undergraduate Medical Education Programs at Maimonides offer a clinically rich experience with your academic, personal, and professional development in mind. Our culturally diverse program provides our interns with exposure to inpatient and long-term and short-term outpatient treatment modalities. Students have a variety of internships, electives, and other programs to choose from as they embark on their academic year.
Our programs
Elective rotations
Anesthesiology
- Anesthesiology elective: 2 or 4 weeks
Emergency Medicine
- Emergency medicine: 4 weeks
- Emergency medical services: 2 weeks
- Emergency medicine ultrasound: 4 weeks
- Emergency medicine pediatrics: 4 weeks
Internal Medicine
- Med. sub-internship (U.S. schools only): 4 weeks
- Cardiology elective: 4 weeks
- Gastroenterology elective: 4 weeks
- Hematology/oncology elective: 4 weeks
- Infectious diseases elective: 4 weeks
- Nephrology elective: 4 weeks
- Primary care (ambulatory care center) elective: 4 weeks
- Pulmonary/critical care elective: 4 weeks
Orthopedics (U.S. schools only)
- Orthopedic surgery: 4 weeks
Otolaryngology
- Otolaryngology/ENT center elective: 2 weeks
Pediatrics
- Pediatric cardiology: 4 weeks
- Pediatric endocrinology: 4 weeks
- Pediatric gastroenterology: 4 weeks
- Pediatric hematology/oncology: 4 weeks
- Pediatric infectious diseases: 4 weeks
- Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU): 4 weeks
- Neonatology: 4 weeks
- Pediatric pulmonary and allergy: 4 weeks
- Pediatric sub-internship: 4 weeks
Psychiatry
- Psychiatry sub-internship: 4 weeks
Surgery
- Breast surgery: 2 weeks
- Cardiothoracic surgery: 2 or 4 weeks
- Colorectal surgery: 2 or 4 weeks
- Emergency general surgery (EGS)/trauma: 2 or 4 weeks
- Pediatric surgery: 2 or 4 weeks
- Surgical intensive care unit (SICU): 2 or 4 weeks
- Thoracic surgery: 2 or 4 weeks
- Urology: 2 or 4 weeks
- Vascular: 2 or 4 weeks
Visiting Student Application Service (VSAS)
About VSAS
Maimonides Medical Center uses the VSAS to receive visiting student applications. Applications may be submitted through VSAS beginning in March 2020. This service is for the use of the U.S. Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) and Osteopathic accredited schools. Affiliated foreign medical school students should use the current Maimonides online application system.
Contact information
For more information on our visiting student electives, please contact Tina Marshall, UME-Institutional Student Education Coordinator, at [email protected] or (718) 283-7629.
For Osteopathic Medical Student inquiries please contact Rosa Pimentel at [email protected].
For more information on VSAS, please visit www.aamc.org/vsas, contact VSAS at [email protected], or (202) 478-9878.
The future of medical care is you
Maimonides Medical Education Program provides superior educational experiences in an environment that assures a balance between academic and clinical activities. We take great pride in our success in preparing interns to become the next generation of experts in their fields. Apply today, and for any additional information, contact Tina Marshall, UME, at (718) 283-7629 or [email protected].