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Summer Undergraduate Program

Posted October 15th 2026

Organisation
Mayo Clinic Biomedical Ethics Research

Location
Rochester, MN and Phoenix, AZ

The Mayo Clinic Biomedical Ethics Research Program seeks applicants for its 2027 Summer Undergraduate Program in empirical bioethics research.
This program provides students with research experience to prepare them for careers in healthcare, science, law, or bioethics. Each student is placed with a faculty mentor to contribute to a particular ethics research project for 10 weeks. In addition to conducting mentored research, students also participate in a robust ethics education curriculum and have opportunities to shadow in various areas of the clinic.

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