Visiting Resident Opportunity

Program Overview

The Visiting Resident Opportunity (VRO) provides support for qualified residents from backgrounds underrepresented in medicine (URiM) - as defined by the AAMC; this includes African Americans, Mexican Americans, mainland Puerto Ricans, and Native Americans (that is American Indians, Native Hawaiians, Alaskan Natives) - to participate in a rotation at Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) Graduate Medical Education (GME) training program.

This program is designed to offer visiting residents:

• an opportunity to gain up to one month exceptional experience and subspecialty training at BCH
• exposure to fellowship opportunities at the Harvard affiliated teaching hospitals
• networking opportunities with faculty and fellows at the Harvard affiliated teaching hospitals training programs
• mentorship from BCH faculty members and VRP director
• clinical exposure
• a networking dinner/luncheon meeting

The VRO is sponsored by the Minority Faculty Development Program within the Office of Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School in collaboration with the BCH GME office.

VRO is two to four weeks in length and is offered all year-round. There are no specific dates for rotations. It would be up to applicants and training programs to settle on the rotation month. Please note that many programs will not have availability in July.

Financial assistance is available toward transportation costs to and from Boston. Housing is provided.

Eligibility

URiM residents who are PGY2 residents currently enrolled in good standing ACGME-accredited U.S. training programs under the sponsorship of non-HMS teaching hospitals are eligible to participate in elective training rotation at BCH under the supervision of BCH faculty.

To qualify as a "rotator" at BCH the trainee must be currently enrolled in a training program at their home institution and must have or be eligible for a Massachusetts license and have the support of their program director.

Applications

In order to participate in VRO, prospective applicants will need to complete two applications:

1. Visiting Resident Opportunity application
2. Boston Children's Hospital Graduate Medical Education application

VRO Application Requirements

• Application form
• A statement of purpose
• A recommendation letter from applicant's current residency program director
• Applicant's current CV

To obtain the VRO application, please contact the VRO coordinator at vcp_hpsp@hms.harvard.edu or 617-432-4422.