Medical student clinical placement

Start your medical career here

Aurora Health Care is committed to improving the quality of health services and patient care – and that begins with investing in medical students. Aurora offers clinical placements in urban, suburban and rural settings for students from core academic partners and non-affiliated students.

Welcome students

Aurora Health Care is an integrated delivery system of physicians, hospitals, home care agencies and pharmacies all working together to enhance care for residents of Wisconsin and northeastern Illinois. Our clinical rotations give students hands-on experience with a diverse patient population to foster growth of medical knowledge and build confidence.

Core academic partners

Aurora has proudly offered rotations to students including those from the core academic partners listed below:

Application process

We proudly serve as a clinical campus for UWSMPH and Des Moines University. We do not have an application process for 3^rd year visiting students from these programs as they pre-approved to rotate at Aurora Health Care. 4^th year visiting students refer to the link below for our application process.

We do not offer 3^rd year rotations to visiting medical students.

Special programs

Aurora’s core academic partnerships provide unique opportunities for you to gain exposure in both urban and rural settings, and work on projects that make a real difference in the community.

Learn about TRIUMPH (Urban Medicine and Public Health)

Learn about WARM (Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine)

Student resources

Clinician Student Services is dedicated to making sure that students gaining clinical experiences at Aurora are valued, supported and given every opportunity for success. We offer health and wellbeing services, help with housing and ways to get involved in the community.

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Visiting students

Learn from expert medical professionals in an urban community.