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Medical Student Electives

Student and PatientMercy Family Medicine Residency Program offers a four-week rotation for medical students. The rotation is designed for the medical student to experience the role of a family physician in the hospital and clinic.

  • Two weeks spent in the clinic and two weeks spent in the hospital setting.
  • Time in the hospital is spent with the medicine team.
  • Time in the family medicine clinic will be spent with the residents.
  • One call until midnight per week with a resident.
  • Didactic lectures every other Wednesday afternoon.
  • Morning Report three times a week.

Contact the residency coordinator, Lauri Allen, at (515) 643-4624 or email lallen@mercydesmoines.org to set up a student rotation.

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