IVS Admission Qualifications & Requirements
- To participate in the IVS Program as part of the Visiting Students Clerkship Program at Stanford Medicine, you must be officially registered as a student at your home medical school. IVS Program participants are enrolled at Stanford as a Visiting Student.
- When applying for IVS Program participation, all submitted materials become the property of the Stanford University School of Medicine Registrar's Office.
- Eligible visiting students are in their medical program's final year of medical school. If you already have an MD degree or equivalent, you are not eligible to apply to the IVS Program.
- All submitted documents MUST be in English or accompanied by an English translation that is a literal and complete version of the original document.
Before applying, refer to the IVS - Clerkship Descriptions to access detailed information of elective clerkships that are open to IVS Program participants.
All quarters of each academic year at the Stanford University School of Medicine are heavily impacted with clinical rotation requests, including requests from visiting students.
Stanford md students have priority in clerkship rotation scheduling. The next priority for scheduling, following Stanford md students, are domestic visiting students from schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education or Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation. The next priority for scheduling, after the above mentioned student criteria, are international visiting students.
Note:
- Submitting an application does not guarantee that you will participate in the IVS Program
- Applications reviewed and approved by the clerkship to participate in an elective does not guarantee that there will be available rotation spots to be scheduled into, by the School of Medicine Registrar's Office
- Incomplete online applications will not be reviewed