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Placements in Public Health and Premed courtesy of the Princeton University Office of International Internship Programs.
Global Health & Health Policy Domestic & International Internships Available
GHP students’ application deadline: December 12th-19th, 2008
Domestic and international internships in global health & health policy have been created specifically for students pursuing the GHP certificate. (Any unfilled internship opportunities will be open to non-GHP students in the spring semester.) Please click here for detailed information on GHP internship opportunities in the U.S. and overseas.
Unite For Sight is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that empowers communities worldwide to improve eye health and eliminate preventable blindness. Unite For Sight’s volunteers range from undergraduate and medical students, educators, nurses, and public health professionals to optometrists and ophthalmologists. Programs are available abroad in the spring, summer, winter, or fall. Volunteers serve as interns at eye clinics, participating with the clinics' eye doctors in community-based screening programs. The clinics' doctors diagnose and treat eye disease in the field, and surgical patients are brought to the eye clinics for surgery. Unite For Sight funds the surgeries for those patients unable to afford eye care. The application, as well as complete details about Unite For Sight's international opportunities, are available at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference. Upcoming programs are available in Ghana, India, and Thailand.
The Pasteur Foundation of New York has created a program for U.S. undergraduates to conduct 10-week summer internships at the Institut Pasteur. Their goal is to encourage students in the pursuit of a scientific career and to expose them to an international laboratory experience.
During the internships, interns will carry out research supervised by a lab mentor. Applicants should be eager to immerse in a different culture, and self-sufficient enough to arrange travel and secure housing in Paris. Depending on availability, affordable housing in a residence on campus may be possible. Interns will receive a living allowance of $400/week for a total maximum of $4,000. Travel/housing are not paid by this program, but a $300 subsidy is provided and intended to defray cost of travel and requisite insurance.
If you are interested, you will find the details here: www.pasteurfoundation.org/zuccaire.html. Read through and follow the instructions to apply. Recommendation letters must be postmarked by Friday, December 14th and the deadline (materials must be in, not just postmarked) is January 4th.
Princeton in
France Summer Internship: Each summer the
Princeton in
France
program sends two interns to work at a hospital, the Centre
Medical Forcilles, which is just outside of Paris. It is an
excellent opportunity for students to get hands-on experience
and to work side-by-side with doctors. The Program is open to
pre-medical Princeton students who have taken four semesters
of college-level French.
One of the interns from 2004 said: “I can say quite
unequivocally that it was one of the best summers of my life.
I worked at Centre Médical de Forcilles, a 400-plus hospital
outside of Paris in the small town of Férolles…they went above
and beyond the call of duty to show us more and to have us
participate as much as possible…this summer internship was an
incredibly valuable experience, all the more so because we got
to be very pro-active in shaping our own role at the
hospital. My abilities to speak and comprehend French had
improved markedly by the end, and Paris is an amazing city to
have gotten to know better.”
For more
information or if interested in applying, please email
Esther Marion,
Acting Director of Princeton in
France.
Interested in International Health Electives?
Child Family Health International offers several programs for
medical students and pre-medical students 21 and over. Most
programs include clinical rotations, language training (where
available) and home-stay accommodations. Current programs
include: Clinical Rotation in
Quito,
Ecuador;
Tropical Medicine Rotation, Ecuador; Amazon Health Project,
Ecuador; Mobile Surgical Unit in Cuenca, Ecuador; Rural and
Semi-Urban Rotation, India; Integrative Medicine, India;
Tropical Medicine in Mumbai, India; Clinical Rotation in
Cuernavaca, Mexico; and a new South Africa Program (details
TBA). All programs are offered for 4 or 8 weeks beginning the
first Monday of each summer month. The applications are
accepted first-come first serve, and students should apply up
to 6 months in advance for summer programs. See the
Child Family Health
International web site for detailed information and an
on-line application form. If you would like to apply, please
click on "apply online." Admission runs on a first-come,
first-serve basis. If interested in applying, do so as soon as
possible. Decisions are based on the application and two
reference emails from your University or professional
contacts. If you have further questions, please call Betsy
Fuller, Program Coordinator, at 415-863-4900 between 9:30 AM
and 6:00PM (PST) or email at
students@cfhi.org.
DIS (Denmark's International Study Program) in cooperation with the
University
of Maryland is launching an innovative, six-week, six-credit
summer program on HIV/AIDS in Western Europe starting in the
summer of 2005. During the first three weeks students will
study in Copenhagen and focus on medical practice and policy
in Scandinavia with respect to HIV/AIDS. In the second part of
the program, students will focus on the socio-political
context and comparative aspects of health care with respect to
HIV/AIDS while on a 3-week study tour to
London,
Paris and Amsterdam. PROGRAM OBJECTIVES include: 1) Providing
an understanding of the complexity of HIV/AIDS from a
biological and medical perspective, including epidemiology and
treatment; 2) Sensitizing students to the political, social,
economic, and moral issues concerning HIV/AIDS; 3) Informing
students about Scandinavian and other European health care
systems; 4) Contributing to broad intercultural competence; 5)
Offering students a competitive edge when applying to medical
school. Students must have a cumulative B average (3.0 on a
4.0 scale) and have completed at least one year of biology and
one year of chemistry at the university level. The calendar,
cost and sample syllabus can be accessed at
DIS website and is listed
under summer programs. Total cost for program including
housing is around $5,500.
The
Council on International Educational Exchange
(CIEE) wishes to advise students about their summer health
programs in the following locations:
  Dominican
Republic - this program features a week-long internship at a
rural health clinic. It is open to students with four
semesters of college-level Spanish and a background in pre-med
or the allied health professions. Please call Cara Hardy at
1-800-40-STUDY for details.
Thailand
- this program provides a combination of classroom discussion
and practical, hands-on experience in public health and
development issues. Please call Adam Rubin at 1-800-40-STUDY
for details or visit their
website.
Syracuse University’s Division of International Programs
Abroad
offers a Comparative Health Policy and Law summer program.
Issues such as access to health care, reproductive choice
policies, care of mentally ill, end of life decision-making,
and assistance in dying will be covered in London and
Amsterdam. The Geneva part of the program will include
visiting the World Health Organization and exploring public
health issues around the world. For additional information
contact the Syracuse University Division of International
Programs Abroad, Summer Programs Office, at 800-251-9674 or by
email, or visit their
website. Questions
about program content should be directed to
Richard Ellison. |
