Opportunities
Hippocrates Fellowship
Pre-Medical Leadership Fellowship
Through enlightening medical humanities courses, fully-funded summer experiences and real-world healthcare exposure in and out of the United States, the Hippocrates Fellowship educates and inspires exceptional pre-med students on the path to becoming leaders in the medical field.
Medical Abroad Fellowship
International Shadowing
From Spain to Greece, this three week summer opportunity exposes Med Abroad fellows to medicine on a global scale, encouraging the exploration of the benefits and disadvantages of different healthcare systems while shadowing in pioneering international hospitals.
Vanderbilt-Sewanee Undergrad Research Experience
V-SURE
Combining opportunities to explore passions in research and clinical medicine, V-SURE enables pre-med students to participate in innovative research and shadow renowned physicians during both summers following the sophomore and junior year.
Sewanee-at-Yale Summer
Research With Yale School of Medicine
Through mentorship and research experience, students impact medicine by exploring fascinating research areas through collaboration with Yale faculty mentors.
Sewanee Undergraduate Research
Research Lab Experience for Undergraduates
Make an impact on the multitude of research opportunities that await at Sewanee. Which one will you leave your mark on?
Student Stories
McCourry Gortney
Certainly one who utilized every opportunity, McCourry Gortney, a pre-medical senior, found his calling through a Sewanee research internship at the Yale Child Study Center. Gortney says this experince "showed me that I want to do research in some capacity." The initiative and effort he placed into this opportunity lead to him being "offered the same position full-time after graduation" during his gap year(s).
To prospective students, follow your passions as "what sets those who are accepted [to medical school] apart from those who are not are the ones that can tell their story from an individual and reflective state," Gortney says. He encourages students to build a support system in which everyone inspires and pushes each other towards success.
Grace Barlet
Grace Barlet, a senior pre-nursing student, is a leader in the pre-health community, encouraging pre-health peers as she serves as a Pre-Health Peer Advisor and in leadership of the Sewanee Health Professions Society. "Holding these positions and making these connections has allowed me to have a great support system and find the resources I need to figure out exactly what i want to do in my future career," Barlet says. Recently, she used her leadership platforms to organize a trip to visit the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, leading students to explore opportunities for career and educational development after Sewanee.
Reminiscing on the past four years, Barlet encourages students to "get involved early, and take advantage of all advising and learning experiences" as utilizing the opportunities and recourses in Sewanee's pre-health community leads to gaining "great friends" and learning "about yourself as well as what you want to do after you leave the Mountain!"
