Accepted and Current Visiting Students

Domestic Students

• Rotation Fee Payment: Due within 14 days from the date of your acceptance offer.
• Confirmation Form: Due after rotation fee has been paid.

Global Partner Students

• Rotation Confirmation Form: Due within 14 days from the date of your acceptance offer
• Arrival and Travel Form: Four weeks prior to the start date of your rotation
• Insurance Payment: Two weeks prior to the start date of your rotation, you will receive the exact cost of your insurance and a link to the online payment portal.

All Visiting Students

• Cancellation or Withdrawal Form: Complete this form to cancel an accepted elective or drop an elective that you have started. Submitting this form and dropping the rotation in VSLO (if applicable) is required to cancel an elective. It must be received no later than 4 weeks prior to your start date. Failure to submit this form on time will result in being dropped from this and future rotations at Northwestern, and your school will be notified.

Accepted students are expected to secure housing on their own. On-campus housing is not available.

To help you find housing on your own, we've provided the following resource guide to short-term housing. We do not endorse any of the options listed, and the list is not meant to be exhausted.

• Chicago Getaway Hostel: International Hostel in the Lincoln Park neighborhood.
• Chicago.craigslist.org
• Hostelling International Chicago: Contact Faye DeJuarez at 312-583-2222
• Student-space.com
• Sublet.com
• The Rotating Room: A Harvard medical student created this site so other medical students who are seeking temporary housing for an away rotation or would like to post a temporary housing vacancy can coordinate sublets with other students across the country
• Padmapper

Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab are located in the heart of downtown Chicago, near the Water Tower. Neighborhoods that are within walking distance include Streeterville, Gold Coast, River North and the Magnificent Mile.

• Driving directions
• Public transportation

Discounted parking is not available for visiting medical students. Accepted visiting medical students are expected to secure parking on their own. The use of public transportation is highly encouraged.

Street parking near the Chicago campus is limited and parking rules are strictly enforced. Off-street parking is offered by some apartment buildings for a monthly fee.

Parking Lots

• Lot C: 222 E. Huron St., between Huron & Superior at St. Clair Street, 312-787-0551
• Lot D: 321 E. Erie St., between Erie & Ontario at Fairbanks Ave., 312-642-6062
• Lot E: 275 E. Chestnut, 312-337-2520 

Although we are unaffiliated and do not specifically endorse this option, there is early-bird discount parking available at 321 E. Erie for $17 per day if you enter between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. and leave by 7:30 p.m. This lot also offers monthly parking for $275 per month plus a $25 processing fee. Prices are subject to change without notice.

As a visiting student, you are not enrolled at Northwestern University and are not considered a matriculated student. You do, however, have the same duties and responsibilities as a medical student and are expected to be treated as an active participant on a rotation, the same as a Northwestern final-year medical student would be treated. Visiting Students are expected to comply with all applicable policies for current full-time medical students at Feinberg School of Medicine.

Be prepared for your time at Feinberg by acquainting yourself with the Visiting Student Guide.

Prior to beginning a rotation, visiting students are required to complete an online registration verifying that they have read, understand and agree to the Visiting Student Program policies, including the Needlestick Policy, Safe and Healthy Learning Environment, Dress Code and Social Media Use.

This policy is specific to visiting students. Current full-time Feinberg MD students should refer to the Needle Stick and Other Blood-Borne, Body Fluid, and or Respiratory Pathogen Exposure Policy.

All visiting students are required to have personal medical insurance. You have either provided your own insurance policy for your rotation or you have purchased the Northwestern University Visiting Scholar Insurance and have been issued your insurance card. You will need to provide your insurance information should you experience a body fluid exposure. Based on your insurance policy details, you may be required to pay some out-of-pocket fees, such as balances to meet deductibles and/or co-payments. Any out-of-pocket fees will be billed to you after your visit.

If you experience an exposure to bodily fluids during your clinical rotation with the Visiting Student Program, please follow the following procedures:

• Seek medical attention immediately. In the case of a needle stick with a contaminated needle or any exposure to body fluids, students are immediately excused from all clinical and educational responsibilities. Medical attention may include: cleansing and treating any wound, flushing splashes to the nose, mouth or skin, irrigation of eyes with saline, obtaining student blood and the patient’s blood for testing, and receiving advice regarding follow-up treatment and testing.
• Report the incident as soon as possible so there is an official record of the time, date and location. Obtain the source patient name and medical record number. Notify your supervisor and appropriate staff at each facility as noted below.
• Follow site-specific instructions:
  • NMH/NMG/Shirley Ryan AbilityLab/Lurie Children's: Notify the unit manager or charge nurse immediately and report to the Northwestern Emergency Department (251 E. Huron) or Immediate Care Center (635 N. Fairbanks) for treatment.
  • Jesse Brown VA: Report immediately to VA Employee Health (7 N. Damen) during regular work hours (Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and to the Emergency Department at all other times.
• You may need to have a follow up appointment with the Student Health office. You must bring your health insurance card or membership information (group and ID numbers). Treatment will be billed to this insurance and the office/billing department will handle getting all necessary information to the insurance company.