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

---

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

---

Bronx-Westchester AHEC

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

---

Manhattan-Staten Island AHEC

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.