Academic Year Health Internships

AHEC Internship Opportunity

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

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Please fill out an APPLICATION.
Return the application to one of the three programs below:

Brooklyn-Queens-Long Island AHEC

Gabrielle Kersaint, Executive Director
BQLI AHEC
400 Jay St., Suite 400
Brooklyn, NY 11202

Fax: (718)-797-5390
Tel: (718)-797.1558

E-mail: gkersaint@bqliahec.org

Learn more at their website: www.bqliahec.org

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Bronx-Westchester AHEC

Patricia Jeudy, MPA, Director of Programs
Bronx- Westchester Area Health Education Center (BW-AHEC)
Lehman College of the City University of New York
Room C-241
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West
Bronx, New York 10468

Fax:   (718)-590-7300
Tel: (718)-590-1110

E-mail: patricia.jeudy@lehman.cuny.edu

Learn more at their website: www.bwahec.org

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Manhattan-Staten Island AHEC

Contact:
Rossmery Barzey, Program Director
Manhattan-Staten Island AHEC
43 Central Park North, Suite 1A
New York, NY 10026

Fax: (212) 534-2478
Tel: (212)-534-2432

E-mail: rbarzey@institute2000.org

Learn more at their website:www.msiahec.org

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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.