Visiting Students

The UW School of Medicine and Public Health has a long-standing history of promoting and supporting diversity in its training of the next generation of physicians. In the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, we believe that this commitment to diversity both strengthens our community and ensures the delivery of the highest quality patient care.

The Department of Emergency Medicine warmly welcomes fourth-year medical students from across the nation; our excellent faculty are dedicated to sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm for our specialty. The Department encourages qualified students who identify as coming from disadvantaged backgrounds who are seeking external emergency medicine rotations to apply for our scholarship

The mission of the scholarship is to expose medical students from disadvantaged backgrounds to the training program in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin. The award aims to increase the diversity of trainees in the emergency medicine residency program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and in the specialty of emergency medicine as a whole.

About the Scholarship:

• $2,000 stipend to be used toward travel, housing, and/or VSLO application and elective fees
• Mentorship and networking: scholars are assigned faculty and senior resident mentors
• Departmental standardized letter of evaluation (SLOE)
• Guaranteed interview with the UW Hospitals and Clinics emergency medicine residency program

Program Overview:

Our innovative 4-week Advanced Elective rotation is a sub-intern-level experience for students applying to an emergency medicine residency. The rotation allows students to independently manage acutely ill patients with a broad range of presenting problems. We also provide advanced simulation experiences that help students develop real-time teamwork and decision-making skills under pressure. This elective is consistently rated one of the best advanced elective experiences in the medical school.

Eligibility:
We invite students in their fourth year of medical school from a US allopathic or osteopathic medical school to apply who identify as an individual from a disadvantaged background, such as but not limited to:

• High level of financial need.
• First generation college student (neither parent received a baccalaureate degree).
• Students who contribute to the intellectual and cultural enrichment of the program because of their life experiences, including overcoming personal adversity or family hardship, records of extensive community service, or successful careers in other fields.
• Significant barriers to achieving higher education, such as experience in the foster care system, living in a single-parent household, having an incarcerated parent, or responsibilities for providing financial support or primary care for other household members.

Application Process:

This competitive scholarship is open to fourth-year medical students who identify as coming from disadvantaged backgrounds who have expressed interest in applying to the University of Wisconsin Emergency Medicine Residency Program. To apply, please submit the following items to Niki Hagen, Clerkship Manager, at nrhagen@medicine.wisc.edu.

• Visiting Student Application AND
• Scholarship Application, which will ask you to submit:
  • Letter of intent
  • Letter of support from core Clerkship Director
  • Curriculum vitae (CV)
  • Medical school transcript (unofficial)
  • Step 1 score or COMLEX report

Applications for all rotations are accepted on a rolling basis.