Visiting International Students in San Antonio (VISSA)
VISSA homepage | Program Information | Past Participants
The Department of Surgery is pleased to sponsor the Visiting International Students in San Antonio (VISSA) program, designed to bring top international senior medical students to rotate and train in our institution for a period of three months.
Click here to read complete program description.
Please note: The VISSA program includes ONLY surgery rotations. If VISSA participants are interested in additional rotations in other clinical departments, they will need to contact the School of Medicine: Click here for more information on other medical school clinical rotations - click on 'Visiting Students'.
Application process
2-month Rotations - 2012
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Deadline date for documents to be in our office:
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May-June 2012
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December 1, 2011
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July-August 2012
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February 1, 2012
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September-October 2012
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April 1, 2012
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November-December 2012
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June 1, 2012
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This program is ONLY for international medical students. No medical school graduates should apply. There is currently NO observership program in place for international medical graduates within the Department of Surgery.
Transcripts submitted by the student must indicate that they have completed the following core clerkships: Family Medicine, Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Surgery.
VISSA 2011 Participants
Pictured, left to right: Daniel Escobar, L. Alejandro Jaramillo, MD (Program Director), Ana Maria Botero
July — September 2011:
Daniel Escobar, Universidad del Valle Medicine and Surgery, Cali-Colombia
Ana Maria Botero, Universidad del Valle Medicine and Surgery, Cali-Colombia
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Click here for information on our past VISSA participants
Contact information
Sylvia Marez |
Email: marezs@uthscsa.edu
Program Coordinator
L. Alejandro Jaramillo, MD, Program Director |
Email: jaramillol2@uthscsa.edu
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