The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)’s Visiting Student Learning Opportunities (VSLO) program enables medical and public health students to pursue short-term learning opportunities in locations away from their home institutions. In 2024, this scholarship can only be used for a virtual program.
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Launched in January 2018, the VSLO program merged two existing visiting student programs: the Visiting Student Application Service (VSAS®) program that focused exclusively on U.S. domestic electives and the GHLO® program which focused on electives abroad. These electives include observerships, summer research programs, clinical opportunities, away rotations, away electives, clinical rotations and visiting opportunities. Program participants include medical and public health students and institutions in the U.S. and around the globe.
Offered by participating host institutions in the U.S. and around the world, elective opportunities are available in teaching hospitals, community clinics, and urban or rural sites and are open to preclinical, clinical, or final-year students, as determined by the host institution.
