At New Heights Clinic, healthcare students and residents can experience the rewards and challenges of serving the under-served in Christ’s name.
The New Heights Clinic Medical Institute (NHCMI) is a yearly program in which medical students come for an intensive 4-8 week experience. Participants see patients at New Heights Clinic and work through our curriculum that emphasizes integrating faith and the practice of medicine. Students review curriculum materials with our outstanding physician mentors. The program is open to 1st through 4th year medical students.
For more information on this domestic opportunity called New Heights Clinic Medical Institute, please send us an email.

New Heights Clinic hosts residents and 3rd & 4th year students throughout the year for 4-week rotations. Participants see patients with our physicians and review topics of faith and health with our physician mentors.

For further information about doing a resident or medical student rotation at New Heights Clinic, please send us an email.

Two to three of the staff physicians at New Heights Clinic each year take a 1st or 2nd year medical student for OHSU’s Principles of Clinical Medicine (PCM) course. The medical student works with our clinic physician one afternoon a week seeing patients for the entire school year. Emphasis is on providing the medical student with a broad overview of primary care, experience in learning the basics of history, physical examination, formulation of a differential diagnosis, and treatment in a cost-effective manner. Issues of faith and medicine are discussed and medical students have the opportunity to learn to discuss spiritual issues in a respectful and tactful way with patients.

If you are an OHSU medical student interested in being assigned to one of our physicians for OHSU’s Principles of Clinical Medicine (PCM) course, please send us an email.

New Heights Clinic hosts Monday evening student-run clinics for local OHSU medical students throughout the academic year. Each medical student takes a patient all the way through the clinic starting with check-in and vital signs, taking of the history and physical, working with a physician to formulate a diagnosis and plan, and then arranging for medications, further testing, follow-up, spiritual care and patient education. Medical students are organized into teams consisting of four students and 2 preceptor physicians each that work together at one Monday evening clinic a month.

The medical student clinics are organized and staffed by the fellowship of Christian medical students at OHSU. Please contact this group for more information.

Through Global Health Outreach, CMDA provides excellent opportunities to do short-term missions in many places around the world. More information.

Locally you can email CMDA area Director Michael McLaughlin at 503-522-1950. Or go to the National CMDA website.

For more information on our domestic summer opportunity called Summer Medical Institute NW, please send us an email.