Academic Year Health Internships
The Metropolitan Regional AHEC office matches high school, college, and health professional students from all backgrounds into voluntary internships and clinical rotations throughout the year.
We place students into a variety of health fields, and all participants will work at sites that are in medically underserved areas.
Health Internships between September and June for these students:
High School Students
Undergraduate/Pre Med College Students in their 1st or 2nd Year
Medical Students: 1st and 2nd Years; non-clinical rotation
Public Health and Health Administration students
Nurse/Nurse Practitioner students
Any-Time During the Year Health Internships for:
Undergraduate/Pre-Med College Students in their 1st or 2nd Year
Please fill out an APPLICATION.
Return the application to one of the three programs below:
Brooklyn-Queens-Long Island AHEC
Contact:
Patricia Jeudy, M.P.A.
Director of Programs
Brooklyn-Queens-Long Island
Area Health Education Center
408 Jay Street, Suite 400
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: 718-797-1558
Fax: 718-797-5390
Email: pjeudy@bqliahec.org
Learn more at their website: http://www.bqliahec.org
Contact:
Fabricio Caro
Director of Center Programs
Bronx-Westchester Area Health Education Center
250 Bedford Park Blvd. C-241
Bronx, NY 10468
Tel: 718-590-1110
Fax: 718-590-4300
Email: fabricio.caro@lehman.cuny.edu
Learn more at their website: www.bwahec.org
Contact:
Francisco Lucio, JD
Program Director
Manhattan-Staten Island Area Health Education Center (MSI AHEC)
43 Central Park North
Suite 1A
New York, NY 10026
Tel: 212-534-2432
Fax: 212-534-2478
Email: flucio@institute2000.org
Learn more at their website: www.msiahec.org
Academic Credit:
If you are interested in receiving academic credit for the work you do with us, we will need approval from your school. This agreement for academic credit may already be in affect, so please inquire with your dean about whether a Clinical Placement Agreement is in place. If not, you must provide us with a contact person at your school.
Medical Requirements:
Any student working with the Metro AHEC/Institute for Urban Family Health will be required to provide proof of the following vaccinations and titers:
(i) immunization for rubella, consistent with good medical practice,(except that a woman of child-bearing age shall have a screening test to be followed by immunization as appropriate;
(ii) immunization for measles (rubeola) and evidence of immunity to measles;
(iii) PPD (Mantoux) skin test for
(iv) a positive varicella (chicken pox) antibody titer.
Please Note
We will try our best, but we may not be able to place every applicant. A successful match is contingent on the availability of preceptors and placement sites.
- We do not provide any housing.
- We do not provide any stipends.