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Northeast Health
Troy, NY

Description: Northeast Health is composed of The Eddy, Albany Memorial Hospital, and Samaritan Hospital. The Eddy provides comprehensive healthcare services to nearly 16,000 individuals throughout the Capital Region. The Eddy is offering a position through their Pattison Internship Program. The Eddy recognizes long-term healthcare as a field of continuous growth for the future. The internship shall be a minimum of eight weeks in length, not to exceed one semester. The student is required to work between 20-40 hours per week for a total of 200 hours.

Qualifications: Interns need to be a graduate student or undergraduate senior who is pursuing a degree related to the field of long-term care.

Compensation: $1,750 stipend.

Claremont Unified School District
Claremont, CA

Description: Claremont Unified is looking for students who would like to intern as counselors-in-training providing counseling to students. You might lead groups at the junior high school or meet with students individually at the junior high or high school. You would also be required to attend an hour of supervision a week to discuss your cases.

Qualifications: Interested in a career in counseling or marriage & family therapy. Desire to do volunteer work.

Camp Sealth
Vashon, WA

Description: Variety of Summer Camp positions (Camp Fire Boys and Girls, Central Puget Sound Council). Participants receive salary/stipend, room and board; participants work outdoors on Sealth's 400 wooded acres and 1.5 miles of Puget Sound beachfront. As a college intern, you'll be on the Sealth staff and have the responsibilities that accompany a staff position. You will also have the unique opportunity to observe experienced staff, learn a lot about outdoor residential camp and your specific role, while getting experience doing something you love (adventure travel, waterfront activities, horseback riding, archery, low ropes challenge course, sailing, and nature)!

Compensation: Room and board is free. Excellent opportunities to work with children. Staff breaks for personal exploration.

American Cancer Society
Upland, CA

Description: The Society is engaged in patient services, research, education, and fund raising. Volunteer opportunities are available with flexible hours and projects may be open-ended or time-specific. Typically, volunteers work on: resource, information and guidance (RIG) at the ACS office; public education on health issues like tobacco and nutrition, e.g. the Great American Smokeout; or fund raising special events like Daffodil Days or Relay for Life. Currently a position is open for Information Delivery Volunteer whose duty is to assess specific education or service needs of the patient caller and professionals.

Qualifications: Willingness to help others in need. Must be comfortable with phone work, research and assessment.

UMass Medical School
Worcester, MA

Description: The Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) is a residential program for sophomore and junior undergraduate college students interested in health careers. This tuition-free four week program includes enrichment classes to improve students' academic skills and knowledge in the basic sciences, through seminars and lectures. Participants also interact daily with medical students, scientists, physicians, and other health care professionals.

Qualifications: The SEP mission is to increase the number of under-represented students in the health professions, including students of economically disadvantaged backgrounds, first generation college students or under-represented minorities in medicine, nursing, and biomedical sciences. Students from MA or attending college in MA preferred.

Compensation: stipend of $800. Program paid for by medical school.

Hospital for Joint Diseases Ortho Inst.
New York, NY

Description: SUMMER FELLOWSHIP: Fellows will participate in research projects in the laboratories of the Musculoskeletal Research Center; attend weekly Research Meetings; present a progress report at one meeting and a summary report at the conclusion of the program. Typical research areas include: Total joint design, Bone mineralization, Bone formation, Biomimetics, Cartilage repair, Fracture fixation, Ergonomics, Clinical research, Tissue-implant interface, Muscle performance, Molecular mechanism of arthritis, Multimedia authoring. Duration: 3 months.

Qualifications: Citizens or permanent residents of the US; currently sophomores or juniors; majoring or intending to major in one of the life sciences, physical sciences, or engineering

Compensation: Housing available for a limited number of students; stipend of approximately $3,000 over ten weeks

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