INTERNATIONAL clinical elective

[mcMD1]

My aunt (who is a nurse and whose husband is a surgeon) invited me to accompany them and their to team to their yearly medical mission next spring in Asia. She said there are a couple of medical students going with them and she thought the medical mission will be a good experience for me.

Does anyone know if AUA approve medical missions as an international clinical elective for the 4th year?

Thanks in advance!

[Sree Cheruku]

Even if AUA did approve this, it would be unaccredited and you would have problems when it came to licensure. The best way to make this work is to convince one of AUA's clinical sites to approve it as a "research elective" or something like that and then AUA would approve it and it would count.

Another option would be for this surgeon to get his hospital to approve it as a Surgery elective (provided that this person's hospital has an ACGME-accredited surgery program) and then you could apply to this hospital as a "away elective student" and AUA might approve that.

[mcMD1]

THANKS Sree!
BTW How does the "away elective student" option work? Does this mean I can do an elective outside the school's approved clinical sites? Including hospitals in the West Coast (Cali and/or Nevada in particular)?
THANKS again!