The Department of Medicine at Inova Fairfax Hospital is one of the most highly sought after sites for medical student education in the region. Partners in the education mission include Virginia Commonwealth University, Georgetown University, and George Washington University who send both junior and senior students to Inova on a monthly basis. Twenty-five students every month integrate into the daily operations of the hospital to learn from the departments top clinician educators. Clinical experiences include the coronary care unit, the medical intensive care unit, the general medicine wards, ambulatory general internal medicine, and subspecialty experiences in the junior year for some schools in nephrology, cardiology, gastroenterology, and infectious disease medicine. Opportunities in the senior year are expanded to include nearly every section of the Department of Internal Medicine.
Students who are interested in doing a rotation within one of the provided clinical areas are asked to called the Office of Undegraduate Medical Education at 703-776-2729. This office will assist all affiliate students and assist those from all accredited medical schools in completing the necessary application.