Distinctive Programs
Stritch students have access to a rich array of programs designed to deepen their education, broaden their perspective, and strengthen their sense of purpose. From community and global health electives to research training, medical language programs, and reflective vocational coursework, these offerings allow students to shape a medical education that is uniquely their own.
Medical Education Electives
Stritch School of Medicine offers a distinctive array of medical education electives that reflect its deep commitment to developing physicians who are as self-aware and purpose-driven as they are clinically skilled. These electives invite students to explore professional identity, emotional intelligence, wellness, clinical reasoning, and the art of healing. Additional opportunities in peer teaching, educational leadership, medical simulation, and interdisciplinary study in law and osteopathic medicine enable students to customize their education and grow as both clinicians and future leaders in academic medicine.
Center for Community and Global Health (CCGH) Electives
The CCGH offers electives that prepare students in the Jesuit traditions of advocacy, solidarity, and passion for social justice to promote health equity, education, and service.
- Ignatian Service Immersive Elective
- Global Health Epidemiology Elective
- International Electives
- Medical Language Electives (Medical Spanish and Polish)
Medical Language Student Organizations
The Medical Student Union offers three student-led organizations that help students learn and practice different medical languages.
Other Programs
The Student Training in Approaches to Research (STAR) program is an eight-week research education program that pairs students with a research mentor and is a prerequisite to enrollment in the Research Honors Program.
The Physician's Vocation Program (PVP) is a four-year formation experience for medical students interested in exploring their self-identity at the intersection of faith and medicine to foster and explore medicine as a calling.
Stritch students have access to a rich array of programs designed to deepen their education, broaden their perspective, and strengthen their sense of purpose. From community and global health electives to research training, medical language programs, and reflective vocational coursework, these offerings allow students to shape a medical education that is uniquely their own.
Medical Education Electives
Stritch School of Medicine offers a distinctive array of medical education electives that reflect its deep commitment to developing physicians who are as self-aware and purpose-driven as they are clinically skilled. These electives invite students to explore professional identity, emotional intelligence, wellness, clinical reasoning, and the art of healing. Additional opportunities in peer teaching, educational leadership, medical simulation, and interdisciplinary study in law and osteopathic medicine enable students to customize their education and grow as both clinicians and future leaders in academic medicine.
Center for Community and Global Health (CCGH) Electives
The CCGH offers electives that prepare students in the Jesuit traditions of advocacy, solidarity, and passion for social justice to promote health equity, education, and service.
- Ignatian Service Immersive Elective
- Global Health Epidemiology Elective
- International Electives
- Medical Language Electives (Medical Spanish and Polish)
Medical Language Student Organizations
The Medical Student Union offers three student-led organizations that help students learn and practice different medical languages.
Other Programs
The Student Training in Approaches to Research (STAR) program is an eight-week research education program that pairs students with a research mentor and is a prerequisite to enrollment in the Research Honors Program.
The Physician's Vocation Program (PVP) is a four-year formation experience for medical students interested in exploring their self-identity at the intersection of faith and medicine to foster and explore medicine as a calling.