Tuskegee University Scholars Collaboration

Participants are matched with a faculty mentor and paired with a surgical research resident. Projects are clinically oriented and intended to challenge and build upon current coursework, as well as provide introductions to new concepts in a real-world academic healthcare setting. At the end of the program, participants will showcase their achievements at a poster session attended by department faculty, trainees and staff.

Our rotating clinical and surgical observations expose participants to a variety of environments, broaden their scopes of interest and allow them to gain an understanding of new and different areas of medicine. Step into the operating room, shadow physicians while they perform a procedure or test, or observe face-to-face daily interaction between a trusted care provider and a patient. Our program will engage you from a provider’s perspective and show you a side of medicine you may not yet have experienced. 

You'll have the opportunity to learn from some of the most forward-thinking minds in medicine. Leaders across the Twin Cities, University of Minnesota Medical School and Department of Surgery will share their knowledge and experience in a lecture series. Lecture topics include: an orientation and welcome to the Twin Cities; getting into medical school; MCAT Prep; life as a trainee; choosing a specialty, as well as additional department chair events and Dean’s topics.