Stanford Clinical Opportunity for Residency Experience Program

1. Increase recruitment of diverse trainees into academic medicine.
2. Provide education and career development in support of Stanford Medicine’s mission.
3. Enhance the educational experience of Stanford medical students by increasing interactions with trainees from diverse backgrounds.
4. Foster opportunities for collaboration with other institutions where the visiting trainees are based.

• SCORE brings fourth-year medical students from diverse backgrounds to Stanford for a four-week residential clinical training program in one of the clinical departments:
  
  • Stanford Hospitals & Clinics, or
  • Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
• SCORE students will be matched with faculty and resident mentors who share similar clinical interests
• The students will participate in mentorship activities with a clinical advisor, as well as clinical rotations, programs, and activities with Stanford medical students
• If desired, participants may also be connected with a research advisor
• The choice of subspecialty elective will be made in conjunction with the department, depending on availability of that elective and the completion of required application information

• SCORE will award a $2,000 stipend at the beginning of the rotation
  
• In addition to the stipend, SCORE will provide housing to the student for the duration of the rotation**
  
• SCORE will waive the $200 standard application fee
  
• SCORE students receive mentorship from outstanding Stanford faculty members
• SCORE students participate in special program activities designed to form connections with Stanford faculty, residents, and students
• SCORE collaborates with other units, e.g. Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, Graduate Medical Education, Center of Excellence in Diversity in Medical Education, and Stanford University Minority Medical Alliance, among many others, to promote a robust experience during the student's rotation
  
• SCORE students can immerse in local community programs and to life in the surrounding Bay Area. See the SCORE "Welcome to Stanford" webpage.

• The student must be in good academic standing and enrolled in their fourth or final year M.D. or D.O. degree program during their elective rotation at Stanford - current 3rd year medical students (rising 4th year students)
  
• The student must also be from a school accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education or Education Department of the American Osteopathic Association
• Applicants must express strong interest in applying to a Stanford residency program. Selection will be based on past clinical and academic achievement
• Applicants will write an essay describing how they believe that their background and experience would contribute to diversity, broadly defined in SCORE
  
• If applicable, students must have completed the core clerkship relating to the department that they have chosen to do the elective (e.g. if interested in pursuing an elective in pediatric infectious diseases, the student must have already completed the core clerkship in pediatrics at their medical school)
• Each participating Department will select its own participants
• Please only apply to the program that you are hoping to Match. The intent of SCORE is for the student to perform the away rotation in the field they plan to apply for Residency
• MD students with their home school outside the U.S. are not eligible to apply for the SCORE program. These applicants should consider applying for participation in the International Visiting Student Program.
  

Students interested in the SCORE program must submit:

1. Completed online application
2. Dean's Statement Form
   
3. Personal statement (describe how you believe your background and experience would contribute to diversity, include why you want to rotate with the particular department)
   
4. Letters of Recommendation
   
5. Curriculum Vitae
6. Official medical school transcript

All application requirements are available on the online Slideroom Application Portal.

Initial application review is performed by the Office of Medical Student Affairs. The application is then submitted to the Department that the student wants to rotate in for review and selection.

Please Note: If you are an international medical student with your home school located outside the U.S., you are not eligible for the SCORE Program. International medical students should consider applying for participation in the International Visiting Student Program.

Students are responsible for coordinating their transportation to and from their elective clerkship location. Here are links to local public transporation and alternatives:

• Options for commuting by bicycle 
  • Bike routes & maps
• Marguerite Shuttle is Stanford’s Free Shuttle Service
  • Shuttle lines & map
    
• Caltrain is a commuter rail service that runs along the San Francisco Peninsula. Riders can connect to the Marguerite Shuttle at the Palo Alto Transit Center, California Avenue, and Menlo Park stations
  • System Map 
  • How to Ride guide 
• BART is a public transportation system that serves part of the San Francisco Bay Area. Riders can connect to Caltrain at the Millbrae BART station

Stanford is near three San Francisco Bay Area International Airports:

• San Francisco International Airport (SFO) - about 26 miles
• Oakland International Airport (OAK) - about 30 miles
• San Jose International Airport (SJC) - about 24 miles