Visiting Trainees

Legacy Health’s Graduate Medical Education (Legacy GME) supports clinical hands-on rotations across multiple sites and disciplines for visiting fellows and residents; and dental, allopathic, osteopathic, physician assistant, and podiatric students.

All rotations require a legal agreement between Legacy Health and your home institution. Please check with your home institution to see if an agreement is already in place for the rotation you seek before contacting Legacy GME.

For rotations not covered under an agreement, we allow visiting trainees the opportunity to arrange clinical rotations with Legacy Health medical staff members as follows:

• Trainees may reach out to Legacy Health medical staff members for willingness to accommodate them for a rotation.
• GME Coordinators do not provide leads or query medical staff members for availability on the behalf of trainees.
• Medical Staff members (preceptors) who agree to take a trainee for a rotation must submit a Preceptor Request Form for approval. Please email GME@lhs.org with inquires.
• Approved requests will be assigned to a GME Coordinator who will work with the home institution to facilitate agreements, onboarding, and computer and ID badge access requests. A minimum of 90 days is required to complete this process.

All visiting trainees must meet the following requirements:

• Trainees must be from programs accredited by ACGME, AOA or other accrediting organization for their academic study (i.e., LCME, AOA, ARC-PA, CPME, etc).
• A GME Rotation Intake Form is required for all approved rotation requests. Home institution representatives must sign that all requirements on page 2 have been met.

Next steps ...

Once your rotation has been arranged, be sure the required forms are received by GME at least 90 days prior to the desired start date of the rotation (additional time encouraged and appreciated). This will ensure that appropriate background checks and informatics access requests are completed by the time your rotation is scheduled to begin. Missing or late forms may result in a delay of the start of your rotation.

Medical students seeking a hands-on rotation must be enrolled as a fourth-year student, in good academic standing, and at a medical school accredited by the LCME or the AOA.

Medical and physician assistant students are not allowed to seek observerships or shadowing outside of the Legacy GME department.