Recommended Electives

From UW Medicine Department Career Advisors:


Specialty

Recommended Electives

Recommended Electives
Outside this Specialty

Anesthesiology OR Rotations

None
Dermatology None Broad background: Medical subspecialties, e.g., infectious diseases, rheumatology; plastic surgery; pathology; peds subspecialties

Emergency Medicine
None Intensive care, Anesthesiology, Trauma, Radiology

Family Medicine
Family medicine sub-I Any other electives that help students build skills they will need for a FM residency (medicine sub-specialty electives, outpatient peds, outpatient ortho, Peds ER, radiology, dermatology, and cardiology for example)

Medicine Sub I, primary care elective for those interested in outpatient GIM, and Pulmonary (learn to read chest x-rays).

Dermatology, Outpatient Orthopedics.
Neurological Surgery
None Ophthalmology, Ortho, Vascular Surgery, and Cardiology

Neurology UW offers EEG and pediatric neurology electives. Ophthalmology, Neurosurgery, Otolaryngology, Rehabilitation Medicine

OB/GYN One 4th year elective at UW: GYN Oncology, high risk OB/GYN subspecialties, and Consider 1 away elective in OB/GYN

ID, Critical Care, Radiology, Dermatology, Pulmonary, Female Urology
Ophthalmology Ophthalmology 681 (Harborview / UW Eye Institute) - would recommend this as a 4-week elective, if possible. Ophthalmology 685 (VA Puget Sound) Experiences in Emergency Medicine, Radiology, Otolaryngology, Endocrinology, and Rheumatology are sometimes helpful to ophthalmology residents, but are not necessary.

Orthopaedics Trauma, General Surgery, ER, Medicine, Radiology, Rehabilitation Medicine, (Spinal Cord Injury and General PM&R with amputation) Neurology

Primary Care, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology, Cardiology / ICU care, Neurological Surgery
Otolaryngology/H&NS We do not have a formal list. Student Advising is done on an individual basis. In general, we would advise Thoracic, Neurosurgery, Radiology, GI Medicine, Radiation Therapy/Oncology, and ICU Medicine.

Thoracic, Neurosurgery, Radiology, GI Medicine, Radiation Therapy/Oncology, ICU Medicine.
Pathology Pathology clerkship Med Onc; Radiology; maybe medical examiners rotation.

Pediatrics & Med/Peds
For Letters of recommendation early in the year: Advanced Pediatrics (sub I);Neonatal Pediatrics Clerkship; Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Pediatric Infectious Disease; Pediatric Pulmonology; Pediatric Nephrology. All other electives are excellent preparation for internship and fill gaps not seen in the 3rd year clerkship. Pick areas you are interested in--like adolescent medicine or endocrine, cardiology, genetics etc

Pediatric Psychiatry, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology, Ophthalmology, Dermatology, Radiology, Pediatric Surgery, and Electives courses in topics that are interesting to the student.
Plastic Surgery
Plastic Surgery Sub-I Surgery Sub-I, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology/HNS

Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Sub I in Medicine (If interested in adult psych) Sub I in Pediatrics (if interested in child psych)
One or more of the following:
Consult/Liaison Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Addiction Psychiatry
Emergency Psychiatry
Geriatric Psychiatry
Outpatient Psychiatry


Dermatology, Endocrinology, Neuroradiology
Radiation Oncology
Radiation Oncology Oncology, Radiology, Surgical Oncology, Pathology

Radiology General clerkship, interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, and radiology research.

None
Rehabilitation Medicine
We create a rehab-specific elective on a case-by-case basis. Focus is usually on musculoskeletal.

Neurosurgery, orthopedics, anesthesiology/pain
Surgery
SICU clerkship; general surgery sub-internship


Gastroenterology, cardiology, radiology, anesthesiology, pulmonology, medicine sub-internship

Urology
Recommend taking UW urology rotation since it is often not a required medical student rotation and will enable students to meet UW urology faculty for letters of recommendation.

We do not have a formal list. Student advising is done on an individual basis.

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