The elective training program is a requirement in the curriculum of MD. program in FM/YU, It is a two-month rotation during the sixth year where the student chooses the place of her/his training. It is supported by the Faculty of Medicine @YU for elective training in high-level medical institutions inside and outside Jordan through bilateral agreements concluded by FM/YU  with medical and academic bodies inside Jordan and with the Association of American Medical Colleges AAMC, from which the (Visiting Students Learning Opportunities -VSLO) program emerges. The Faculty of Medicine at Yarmouk University is now participating in this program as a VSLO home institution that enables students to connect with more than 300 VSLO host institutions across the United States and the world via a mechanism that will be explained on this page.

The duration of the elective international training ranges from one to two months. FM/YU student is required to train for a period of two months. It is not a must to have the whole period in one center, provided that the training be in one center for at least one month.

Students are advised to start the registration procedures from the fourth year of medical school studies in order to perfectly use the time to arrange between her/him and the Faculty at the appropriate rotation during the sixth year, as there are five consecutive courses during this year. In order for the student to obtain the visa from the relevant embassy after completing the papers at the proper time, to start on time as prescheduled with the Faculty deanship, so no confusion in the sixth year schedule will happen. The student then will have the opportunity to participate in her/his elective training and take advantage of this opportunity to develop his scientific horizons and improve her/ his skill level and gain new experiences in a different teaching system and a different medical environment that adds to her/his medical thought and accumulated experience

How to apply to the Association of American Medical Colleges in the (Visiting Medical Students Learning Opportunities) program to obtain a hands-on training opportunity?

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First: Go to the AAMC website to register for a student account. For further assistance with the registration process, access the VSLO link for international students outside the United States indicated in parentheses (link here). 

Second: After filling in the data and giving the required requirements from the student, for example: CV and immunization status certificates, and after creating the account, the student will be given his own (AAMC ID number) by the AAMC but his account will not be active by then. 

Third: After obtaining the AAMC ID number, the student communicates with Dr. Jomana  Al-Sulaiman, the liaison officer between the Faculty of Medicine @ YU and the Association of American Medical Colleges, via his email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

This is in order to give the student a special invitation to the VSLO Program. The title of the message should be (VSLO invitation request)

This is so that the liaison officer can deal with the electronic message with the appropriate speed and apply the mechanism agreed upon in these requests. The student must mention in this electronic message the following information: 

1- The AAMC ID number given to him 

2- The name in English as entered by the student in the application filled on the AAMC website and it must be in accordance with the name in the passport where the AAMC requests a copy of the passport 

3- The email address with which the student subscribed to the AAMC account 

4- Expected year of graduation.

Fourth: Dr. Jomana Al-Sulaiman enters the student's information on the platform available to the FM/YU and sends the required confirmations from the Faculty to the Association of American Medical Colleges, and then the student’s AAMC account is activated. 

Fifth: The student then searches for the elective training opportunity that suits him among hundreds of universities and hospitals registered in the program as host institutions, according to her/his aspirations and qualifications. 

Sixth: The communication after this point is between the student and the university or hospital that granted her/him the acceptance in its training program.

Seventh: Before traveling, a special form is obtained from the deanship of the Faculty to be filled out by the supervisor of the training program after completing the training period and stamped with the seal of the supervisor doctor and the hospital or university to return it to the Faculty of Medicine @YU.  

Eighth: Those who have joined the local elective training programs; The student requests the special form from the FM/YU deanship and returns it to the deanship of FM/YU after filling it out by the supervisor of the training program at the end of the training period.