Dear Elective Applicant:

We appreciate your interest in our senior student electives at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. To be considered, applicants must submit all required and supplemental documentation along with their application.  It is also required that applicants must have completed all of the required clerkships and be in their final year by the time they are planning to enroll in the elective.  Full application instructions are available on VSAS.

General Information


Notification and Acceptance Process
Student Coordinators will contact the student applicant with an elective offer.  The applicant must respond to accept the offer and submit an online payment of $75.00 within one week from the time the offer was made  in order for enrollment to actually take place.

Processing Fee
$75.00 per elective  

Forms of Payment Accepted
Cedars-Sinai currently accepts the following forms of payment:
Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover

Cancellations and Refunds
The elective fee is non-refundable or transferable to another elective.  

Course Catalog
Visiting students will be considered for senior clinical electives only. Core clinical clerkships are not available to visiting students.

Evaluation
Visiting students should bring with them a copy of their home school's evaluation form for completion by the elective sponsor.

Correspondence
All correspondence with Cedars-Sinai  regarding the status of your elective request and inquiries regarding availability of a specific elective will be addressed by the appropriate Student Coordinator.  

Parking
Parking fee is $20.00 for the term of the elective.  Students will need to pay this fee directly to the Parking Office on their first day of rotation.

Housing
Visiting students are responsible for securing their own housing. The Student Affairs Officer and the Student Coordinators do not maintain or provide any information related to housing.

We hope that we will be able to accommodate your needs in pursuing a clinical elective at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.  For general questions, please contact Elsa Aguilar in the Office of Student Affairs at elsa.aguilar@cshs.org



print button
WP1