Emergency Medicine Student Clerkship

Our Intensive Clerkship in Emergency Medicine

Our Emergency Medicine clerkship is a four-week senior elective that is structured to provide medical students with an intense clinical experience in one of the busiest emergency departments and trauma centers in the United States. Students are supervised by our outstanding Emergency Medicine residents and faculty as they rotate through five different clinical areas within our large county ED. Students are expected to function at the level of a sub-intern. For guidance throughout this process, students will be paired with a senior Emergency Medicine resident and will work that resident’s shift schedule.

In addition to the outstanding clinical experience, we provide a robust didactic curriculum. This includes multiple small group/case based sessions and our weekly Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds, which frequently feature nationally recognized speakers.

Furthermore, those students who are considering emergency medicine as a specialty will receive additional mentorship and advising while on rotation with us. Each student will be offered individualized advising from our medical education team and be assigned a faculty advisor that they will work at least one shift with. All rotators are also invited to our program’s monthly advising social – a high yield, yet laid back event attended by our residency office and multiple residents.

Application For Rotation

All students who wish to rotate must satisfy the following:

U.S. Applicants:

1. Apply to the Keck School of Medicine of USC Student Affairs using the AAMC Visiting Student Learning Opportunities (VSLO) program.
   • We will begin accepting applications on March 8th, 2026 with our first round of invites sent in early April.
2. Students who wish to rotate during our visiting student sub-I season (start dates 6/29, 7/27, 8/24, 9/21) must also complete the following online application in order to be considered for the rotation: Online Application 

Unfortunately, we are unable to accommodate international students.

LAG/USC Emergency Medicine Visiting Student Award
To help reduce financial barriers for students completing a visiting clerkship at Los Angeles General Medical Center, funding of up to $3,500 is available to selected applicants. Students interested in being considered for this award should complete the supplemental scholarship application within the USC online application.