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Arizona

Gilbert, AZ
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow  an alum who is part of a two-doctor primary care pediatric practice in a suburb of Phoenix. Reply Code: HEA094

Phoenix, AZ
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a physician practicing internal medicine (the care of adults) and pediatrics (the care of children). Host owns medical practice. Reply Code: HEA055

Tucson, AZ
Available: Opportunity for a student to develop an understanding of the daily activities and routine of newborn intensive care in a busy tertiary level unit caring for critically ill newborn infants. These might include sick, premature, or unexpectedly sick babies requiring any of a variety of interventions such as surgery, respiratory care, or other emergent medical help. Reply Code: HEA022

 

California

Foster City, CA, San Mateo County
Available: Opportunity for a student who is interested in medical school and/or healthcare administration to observe a typical day in a busy multispecialty practice. Reply Code: HEA081 

Fresno, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a radiation oncologist. Student will get a chance to see how radiation is used to treat cancer. Typical day would be seeing and evaluating cancer patients, then prescribing and designing the radiation treatment and fields. Reply Code: HEA023

Fullerton, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe a private practice. Host is otolaryngologist (head and neck surgeon) in Southern California. Reply Code: HEA068

La Jolla, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student to be exposed to the business side of a high-powered academic research institute located in the midst of a leading bioscience cluster that includes the Salk and Scripps Institutes, UCSD, and hundreds of biotech companies. Host works at the interface of modern biology and its commercialization. Ideal opportunity for grad students in the biomedical sciences interested in alternative career paths, or MBA students interested in careers in pharma/biotech, to see how new biomedical technologies are evaluated and how new biotech companies get started. Reply Code: HEA041

Los Angeles, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student to learn about an academic career as an addiction psychiatrist. Student will be able to visit the UCLA Addiction Medicine Clinic and will be able to experience the UCLA gambling studies program. Student will also learn about research in the area of addictions and what the latest treatments are. Finally, if student is interested in pursuing medical school, she/he will learn about the medical school and residency process. Reply Code: HEA069

Mountain View, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student  to spend a day with an interventional cardiologist seeing patients in office and hospital, reviewing imaging, and watching proceedures. Host has previous experience teaching at Stanford Medical School. Reply Code: HEA107

Newport Beach, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student observe surgery. Reply Code: HEA074

San Diego/Coronado, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a gsstroenterologist and internal medicine specialist. Students may spend a 1/2 day seeing patients in Host's office and, schedule permitting, observe outpatient GI endoscopy procedures for a few hours. Reply Code: HEA020

San Francisco, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student to assist an alum who runs a medical research lab that studies HIV infection. Lab primarily uses cell culture and molecular biology techniques for these studies. Host also sees patients in clinic and in the hospital. Externship would provide a glimpse at a career in academic medicine that involves both biomedical research and patient care. Reply Code: HEA114

Santa Rosa, CA
Available: Opportunity for a student to experience a typical office-based ophthalmology practice. Reply Code: HEA125

West Hills, California (inside LA county)
Available: Opportunity for a student to follow a general surgeon throughout a day. Surgery in the a.m., office patients in the p.m. Reply Code: HEA072

 

Colorado

Denver, CO
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in a medical office: internal and holistic medicine. Reply Code: HEA044

Denver, CO
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a busy ophthalmology practice specializing in retinal disease, optic nerve disease, and advanced diagnostic testing for eye disease. Reply Code: HEA061

Denver, CO
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a rheumatologist. Student can observe patient care. Reply Code: HEA064 

Greenwood Village, CO
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a physician executive in a large health insurance company who encounters a wide variety of situations, such as: attending or chairing meetings concerning medical coverage policies, learning about new medical technology, dealing with claims and coding issues, responding to various internal and external inquiries, reviewing medical guidelines, and giving presentations. This is not a direct patient-care situation. Reply Code: HEA005 

 

Connecticut

Hartford, CT
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a pediatrician specializing in pain management at a children's hospital. Student would get some sense of the daily routine of an academic physician and the feel of what it is like to work with children in the hospital. Reply Code: HEA087 

New Britain, CT
Available: Opportunity for a student to become acquainted with a hospital, which becomes a "home" to persons with long-term medical issues including: respiratory care, speech therapy, traumatic brain injuries, physical, recreational and occupational therapies, psychological and pastoral care, and legal and community relations issues. The Hospital for Special Care in New Britain CT, is a 200+ bed facilty on 2 campuses in the Hartford CT area, which fulfills a unique niche in the healthcare field. A one-day visit would be an eye opening life experience for anyone, even if they had not thought of working directly in the field of health care. Facility is think-tank for social policy for persons who are on the edge of life/death daily. Reply Code: HEA049

 

Florida

Boca Raton, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe office and/or hospital obstetrical care (care and delivery of pregnant women). Reply Code: HEA053 

Boca Raton, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to learn what it is like to be a practicing physician in the field of endocrinology and internal medicine. Reply Code: HEA086

Bradenton, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in clinical and surgical orthopaedic surgery. Reply Code: HEA052

Coral Gables, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a a general/cosmetic surgeon who is the medical director of Soluna MD. Host specializes in cosmetic procedures which is very popular in south Florida. Student will be exposed to the medical/cosmetic side of the practice (observe procedures) as well as the business aspect of running a small business. Reply Code: HEA116

Dunedin/Clearwater, Florida
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in internal medicine with a strong bent on business development. Multiple core businesses in place, but the current hot area is computer-based cognitive rehab for those with mild cognitive impairment.  This is an exploding market, untapped. Host works for one of the largest clinical centers in the U.S. Covered by insurance/no cost to patients/highly successful for patients. Startup operation with development, marketing, sales, managerial, entreprenurial skill required. The concepts of project development, scope of skills required and plan development are not taught in the medical world. The intensity and scope of concept development and implementation can not be appreciated in the classroom or working in a cubicle at a Fortune 500. Far exceeds what a medical student could every learn spending a day in any other practice. Reply Code: HEA105

Fort Myers, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to see how an owner and general manager of a small but growing healthcare agency plans and executes his business, handling marketing, finance, sales, and franchisee recruiting and training. Entrepreneurship at its most challenging, in the most attractive demographic segment of the new millenium. Student may find that this business might be an attractive career choice. Reply Code: HEA102

Jacksonville, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student with an interest in health science/medicine. Reply Code: HEA017

Jacksonville, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe surgical care of patients at a tertiary care teaching hospital. Specific types of operations they will observe include minimally invasive and robotic assited operations on the gastrointestinal tract. Reply Code: HEA030

Jupiter, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe the daily routine of a cardiologist in a hospital and office based settings. Reply Code: HEA131

Lake Mary, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a physician in their office. Reply Code: HEA056

Miami, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in medical device sales-- spine, operating room, neuro/ortho surgery. Reply Code: HEA048

Miami, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe a practicing physician at a medical school who is very heavily involved in the medical administration of a major, inner-city teaching hospital.  Reply Code: HEA128

Tampa, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a medical doctor. Family practice, disability evaluation, cosmetic, medical legal, solo practice. Outpatient practice. Reply Code: HEA115

Tampa, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to gain exposure to academic tertiary care surgical practice. Reply Code: HEA133

Tavares, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a surgeon who has a private practice in general and vascular surgery. Host does a wide range of surgery types including advanced laparoscopic surgery. Student could experience what it is like to be a surgeon, and to run a small business. Reply Code: HEA078

West Palm Beach, FL
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in the the Child Life Institute, a non-profit organization providing psychosocial support services to seriously ill children. Host works primarily with children with cancer and their families. Reply Code: HEA109

Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in a vascular and endovascular surgery. Reply Code: HEA100

 

Georgia

Atlanta, GA
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow an alum who leads the medical sales division of a privately held recruiting agency. Host can provide insight to extern about opportunities in the medical device industry, specifically in the sales vertical. Host's clients are leading medical device, capital equipment, pharmaceuticals, EMR, biotech, and medical disposable companies. Host's division loks to place field-based territory managers, VPs of sales, regional managers, and clinical specialists. Reply Code: HEA027

 

Illinois

Abbott Park, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to learn about the pharmaceutical industry and drug discovery process from a scientific perspective.  The extern will visit a broad-based, global health care company, that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets a wide range of products (nutritional products, diagnostic tests, medications, and devices). Opportunities will be available to visit labs and interact with drug discovery scientists. Reply Code: HEA132 

Champaign, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to get a glimpse into the field of public health for a day, with a particular focus on the area of HIV/AIDS prevention. Students can expect to observe the core elements of HIV/AIDS public health programming: disease surveillance activities, prevention planning/implementation, and research efforts. Current local and national HIV prevention efforts will be highlighted during this externship. Reply Code: HEA142

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe a research lab at Northwestern medical school. Lab uses transgenic mice to study congenital heart disease. A typical day would be to observe experiments, possibly attend meetings, or work on the confocal microscope. This would allow the student to see a how it is to have a career in bench research. This externship would be useful for majors in BMBCB or neurobiology and physiology. Reply Code: HEA143 

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe any of the following (depending on the day of the externship):

1) Pediatric resident primary care clinic and faculty supervision of patient care
2) Early childhood developmental screening in a clinic for children with lead poisoning
3) Teaching and consultation with families with infants through preschoolers with questions about behavior or development
4) Parent discussion group
5) Activities at infant day care or preschool programs
6) Medical or developmental lectures and tutorials, as interested

Host is a PhD and works in an interdisciplinary field of pediatric medicine. It is challenging, fun, different from day to day, and offers opportnuties to learn new things over the course of your whole career. Reply Code: HEA006

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to learn various aspects of medical care within neurosurgery and/or orthopedic surgery. Office has access to steriotactic radiology (gamma knife) to treat brain tumors and an endovascular lab to treat non-ruptured aneuysms and other diagnostic procedures. Student focus may be on hospital administration; if so, opportunity to spend time with various members of the senior management team and directors is available. Host is CNO/VP of Clinical Services for the hospital. Reply Code: HEA007

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe cardiac catheterization procedures or rounds in the CCU where they would learn about the approach to the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. Reply Code: HEA008

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a physiatrist, or a physician specializing in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation.  Host works in an inner-city rehabilitation hospital and helps people recover from disabling conditions such as amputation, fractures, stroke, arthritis, burns, and multiple sclerosis. Host works with a team of health care professionals, including physical, occupational, speech, and recreational therapists, as well as psychologists, nurses, and social workers. This is an academic hospital, so Host also teaches residents and medical students. In addition to spending time with Host, student is welcome to shadow other healthcare professionals if desired. Reply Code: HEA026

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to assist in a physical therapy inpatient/outpatient rehabilitation hospital setting. Reply Code: HEA019

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to experience graduate school (they can come to class) and hopefully interact with clients at Host's practicum site (assessing underprivileged kids for learning disabilities). Reply Code: HEA028

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow an alum on a clinical day as a general medicine hospitalist. The day will consist of inpatient work, namely rounding on patients and admitting new patients. Student will see Host interact with patients (including physical exams) and also interact with other healthcare staff including fellow physicians, nurses, social workers, etc. Reply Code: HEA032

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a general surgeon in private practice on the north side of Chicago. Host's practice focuses on breast disease and I do many procedures here in the office. Depending on scheduling issues, operative observation can be arranged at Swedish Covenant Hospital. Reply Code: HEA035

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow the hosptial administrator for a pediatric hospital which offers orthopedic, plastic reconstructive, and spinal cord injury specialty medical care and surgery. Hospital gives care at no charge to patients or their families.  Research and medical education are also cornerstones of hospital's mission. Hospital is unique in governance and has a legacy that spans nine decades. Hosptial is part of a 22-facility network working in North America. Externship is for any student interested in healthcare administration or clinical care professional, more specifically with a pediatric focus, in an "elective-admission, elective-surgery" setting. Facility is more mission-focused than money-making; more focused on signficance than success; and more focused on wellness through the contiuum of care than treatment and research. Reply Code: HEA051

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a physician specializing in ear, nose, and throat at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Host offers students the opportunity to shadow in the office or in operating room. Reply Code: HEA057

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow alum's team. Team provides content expertise for many of the public policies produced by a large healthcare-related membership organization. Team specifically works on patient safety initiatives such as medication reconciliation and fragmentation of care. Team members have backgrounds in healthcare, law, industrial engineering, public health, and biology. Reply Code: HEA071

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to be exposed to the practice of medicine focusing on patients with endocrine or metabolic disorders. Reply Code: HEA083

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow an endodontist (root canal specialist) working in a solo practice setting in downtown Chicago. Any student interested in dentistry is welcome to come and observe a typical workday in the dental field. Visits to other local dental offices as well. Lunch will be provided. Reply Code: HEA089

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate as a member of a medical clinic, observe interactions between patients and physicians, and learn about the current issues in healthcare. Reply Code: HEA104

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to follow  a group of MD's in a busy private practice. All are internists that have specialized in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Reply Code: HEA117

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to spend a day in a busy, inner-city pediatric emergency department. There would be an opportunity to interact with doctors at various levels of training, nurses, and paramedics. Reply Code: HEA121

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow Host in treating ambulatory and hospital patients. Reply Code: HEA123

Chicago, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a physician, general internist, and a community based researcher. Host's clinical work is based at The University of Chicago. Host's research is working with churches in Little Village, mainly Mexican immigrants, in designing community based programs to address health concerns of low income, uninsured immigrants. Student who speaks Spanish preferred.  Reply Code: HEA141

Chicago or Evanston, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow  a pediatrician currently in a neonatology fellowship and thus work in a Neonatal ICU. Student would be invited to join Host on morning rounds, observe infant care, and likely attend a delivery (if one occurs while the student is present). Student would learn about medical care infants born with health problems or prematurely. Reply Code: HEA105 

Chicago, Evanston, or Northbrook, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student interested in psychology in general and/or psychotherapy in particular would benefit from spending a day shadowing a family therapist. Host advises, supervises student therapists, and sees clients for a variety of issues. Student would not be allowed in the actual therapy sessions, but he/she would benefit from seeing how a therapist prepares for a session and conceptualizes a session immediately afterwards. Some precaution would need to be taken to ensure that clients' right to privacy and clinical sensitive material are respected. Reply Code: HEA099

Chicago or Skokie, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in rounds in the hospital in several areas to get an idea of the practice of medicine:  intensive care rounds, teaching rounds with the residents, rounds on the general medical floor, obsreve operations, spend time in the ER, and spend time in a private practice physician's office. Reply Code: HEA021

Elmhurst, IL
Available: Opportunity to shadow an ear, nose, and throat surgeon for a day in clinic and possibly in the operating room. Great opportunity to be introduced to the field of medicine. Reply Code: HEA042

Evanston, IL
Available: Opportunity for student to shadow an alum who has a medical dermatology (not cosmetic) practice very near the Evanston campus. Host frequently teaches medical students, interns, medical residents, and dermatology residents, and the feedback from all of them is quite positive and enthusiastic. A student considering medicine for a career will get a good sense of how an office-based practice runs. Because of the close proximity to Northwestern, Host has employed many students over the years. Reply Code: HEA029

Glenview, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in general internal medicine office in northern Chicago suburbs. A student would be welcome to shadow Host for a day and observe a physician's typical day. Host will be out of the office March 25-April 5. Reply Code: HEA090

Hinsdale, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe various aspects of a plastic surgery practice. Reply Code: HEA054

Justice, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe a colon-rectal surgeon in surgery. Reply Code: HEA037

Kankakee, IL (Chicagoland)
Available: Opportunity for a student to spend a day with a neurosurgeon in busy private practice. See the OR, ER and office first-hand in a community setting. Discuss current trends in healthcare and the careers within the industry, whether they are neurosurgical, administrative, or other healthcare professions. Reply Code: HEA062

McHenry, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow  Host (a physician) working with cancer patients, most receiving radiation therapy. Student will have an opportunity to observe the cancer team's approach in dealing with life-threatening diseases. Student will observe the interactions of oncology nurses, social worker, nutritionist, chaplain, medical dosimetrist, radiation therapist, medical physicist, and other support personnel who provide the services to assist these patients, both curative and palliative, at a challenging time in their lives. Reply Code: HEA113

Orland Park, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to see patients with Host for a day. Host is a family physician in private practice in the southwest suburbs. Reply Code: HEA140

Rosemont, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in a practice of cosmetic plastic surgery with Board Certified Plastic surgeons. This would provide the NU student with exposure to office based plastic surgery without exposure to surgery including a general overview of the field.  With patient permission, there will be contact with active patients. Reply Code: HEA101

Rockford, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to attend an outpatient pediatric gastroenterology clinic with patients ages 0-18y/o. Depending on the day, student may see endoscopies as well, and also interact with a 3rd year medical student. Will need proof of immunizations and sign paperwork prior to the externship day. Reply Code: HEA129

Skokie, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to spend a day with a practicing pediatrician. Student should bring questions for discussion on the current state of healthcare in the US, the process of medical training, how to choose a career within medicine, and additional topics. Reply Code: HEA079

Willowbrook, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow an OB/GYN in private practice in the western suburbs. The extern could shadow Host during a day of seeing patients and also in the operating room. Reply Code: HEA067

Woodstock, IL
Available: Opportunity for a student to assist a dermatologist in private practice. Reply Code: HEA108

 

Indiana

Indianapolis, IN
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow an internal medicine and pediatrics physician associated with an academic medical center. On any given day, Host may see adult and pediatric patients, staff med/peds residents in continuity clinic, staff the medicine or pediatric wards, teach physical diagnosis to second year medical students, or see patients at a pediatric urgent visit center. Actual experience would depend on day extern would visit. Reply Code: HEA119

Indianapolis, IN
Available:  Opportunity for a student who has a desire to learn more about the pharmaceutical industry. Host has worked in the industry for 20 years in the area of clinical research, the study of investigational drugs in humans. Host would be happy to meet with student one-on-one to discuss non-laboratory careers in clinical research. Science major necessary. Host is currently in a clinical project management position in neuroscience, working on a neuroscience drug that was introduced to the market in 1995. Located within a 4-hour drive from Evanston. Lodging at Host's home or hotel can be arranged. Reply Code: HEA127 

Indianapolis, IN
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe a family medicine residency program. Externship day will be tailored to student's specific goals. Opportunities include participation in inpatient care, outpatient care, obstetrical care, as well as leadership, community outreach, and educational activities. Day will be hosted by the program director, a Northwestern alumna, and based on student interests. May include experience with other faculty, physicians, and residents who are alumni. Reply Code: HEA091

Mooresville, IN
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in a busy orthodontic practice. Reply Code: HEA024

South Bend, IN
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a physician during possible surgery, office hours, labor, and delivery. Reply Code:  HEA031

 

Iowa

Iowa City, IA
Available: Oppotunity for a student to shadow a research genetic counselor in Dr. Jeff Murray's laboratory at the University of Iowa. Host coordinates the cleft lip and palate genetic research studies. Student would have the opportunity to learn about genetic counseling in a research setting, learn about the day to day operation of a research laboratory, and learn about the ethics of genetic research. Student who is interested in a careet in genetics may be interested in this externship. Reply Code: HEA134

Rapid City, IA
Available: Opportunity for a student to experience the workings of a dental clinic, its management, and leadership. See dentistry in action. Reply Code: HEA136

 

Kansas

Kansas City, KS
Available: Opportunity for a student to assist a cardiologist/electrophysiologist (heart rhythm). Host is director of Bloch Heart Rhythm Center, University of Kansas Medical Center. Student would spend day with Host seeing patients and doing procedures. Reply Code: HEA112

 

Louisiana

New Orleans, LA
Available: Opportunity for a student to spend the day (or night) in the ER with an emergency medicine physician observing the evaluation and treatment of patients. Reply Code: HEA092

 

Maryland

Baltimore, MD
Available: Opportunity for a student to assist in an outpatient pediatric practice. Host has allowed Johns Hopkins University students to shadow for one day or one student for 2 days a week for 10 weeks, depending. Reply Code: HEA097

 

Massachusetts

Boston, MA
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a pediatric nephrologist at a teaching hospital. Student would have the opportunity to understand how a pediatric nephrologist at a teaching hospital functions -- inpatient and outpatient care, participating in conferences, and discussing dialysis and transplantation and general nephrology. Reply Code: HEA018

Chelmsford, MA
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a busy medical (urology) specialist in an office/hospital setting for a day. Encounters with patients, staff, and our healthcare system. Can skew the experience for individuals with both medical and non-medical interests. 25 miles north of Boston. Reply Code: HEA075

Longmeadow, MA
Available: Opportunity for a student to see a day in the life of a plastic surgeon. This might include time in the operating room, office, or both. This would likely include both reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. Reply Code: HEA046

Wellesley, MA
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a general dentist in practice with Host's father, a prosthodontist. In addition to crown and bridge dentistry, dentist office sees a lot of pediatric dentistry and sports dentistry. Office is on the cutting edge of dental technolog -- soft tissue lasers, digital impression systems, and digital radiography are used. A typical work day runs from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM. Dentise sees between 20-25 patients per day between two dentists and one hygienist. Patients include professional athletes from the major sports teams in the Boston area. Office strictly adheres to HIPAA guidelines -- any student who shadows must follow HIPAA protocols as well and proper office etiquette (no autographs, photos, etc). Reply Code: HEA088

 

Michigan

Berkley, MI
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe patients with neuological disorders and read nuclear medicine studies (majority of which is for cardiac diseases) for entire week. Student will observe rounds in hospital as well and when needed for neurology consultations. If EEG rotation comes in, Host reads all EEGs for 1-2 weeks for another hospital. Sleep lab and sleep evaluations also are done in Host's office.  Office has multi-specialty group and cardiology as well as internal medicine doctors in same office. Reply Code: HEA126 

Detroit, MI
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow an endocrinologist at the Henry Ford Medical Group with a practice in the Endo clinic in midtown Detroit. Student would have an opportunity to see what a specialist physician does during working hours. Depending on the time, visit might include consult rounds on the wards of the Henry Ford Hospital. Student should have some interest in the medical field. Reply Code: HEA036

Detroit, MI
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a resident physician at Henry Ford Hospital in the Emergency Department (during April). Reply Code: HEA047

Grosse Pointe, MI
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a dentist. Reply Code: HEA139

 

Minnesota

Chaska, MN
Available: Opportunity for student to assist in an outpatient clinic. Physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists at this outpatient clinic all work together to provide excellent habilitative and rehabilitative care to children of many ages and abilities. Team evaluates and treats children with diagnoses including disfluency, articulation disorders, autism, cerebral palsy, and language disorders, among others. Reply Code: HEA040

 

New Hampshire

Peterborough, NH
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in a private practice -- orthopaedic surgery. Reply Code: HEA076

 

New Jersey

Kenilworth, NJ
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow an immunologist working in early drug discovery at a major pharmaceutical company. Extern would observe interactions with biologists and chemists involved in research to identify new drug candidates to treat inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis. Reply Code: HEA144 

Monmouth County, NJ
Available: Opportunity for a student ot spend a day in the operating room and hospital with an orthopaedic spine surgeon. Reply Code: HEA120

Morristown, NJ
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in a clinical cardiology practice with exposure to cardiac catherization, echocardiography, and nuclear cardiology in an inpatient-outpatient setting. Reply Code: HEA038

 

New York

Brooklyn, NY
Available: Opportunity for a student to accompany alum (a surgeon) in the operating room or in private office seeing patients. Reply Code: HEA085 

New York, NY Harlem
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a clinical dean of an osteopathic medical school. Student will learn the differences between allopathic and osteopathic medicine, what academic medicine is all about, and what it is like to be a medical student in an under-served community. Osteopathic principals using manual medicine combined with basic sciences and clinical medicine makes for a complete physician that can greatly benefit the patients and community they will serve. Reply Code: HEA011

Syracuse, NY
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe the daily routine of a private practice cardiac surgeon. Reply Code: HEA013

 

North Carolina

Burlington, NC
Available: Opportunity for a student to gain insight into a community based orthopedic surgery practice. Reply Code: HEA098

Chapel Hill, NC
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow an intern in the Department of Medicine at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill. Student will learn the ins-and-outs of what a residency program is like at a major academic medical center. Student wiill also get to meet interesting patients transferred from all over the state of North Carolina with a wide variety of common and rare illnesses. This would be a great opportunity for a pre-med student. Reply Code: HEA118

Charlotte, NC
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a physician in the office, discuss healthcare and medical evaluation of diagnoses, and possibly see operative procedures dependent upon the schedule. Host has had several nursing students and high school students shadow previously. Reply Code: HEA137

Durham, NC
Available: Opportunity for a student considering a career in healthcare administration. Every day is different, but student can expect to participate in meetings and activities with the chief of marketing and business development  and the executive director of hospital operations. Reply Code: HEA106

 

Ohio

Akron, OH
Available: Opportunity for a student to assist a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist. As medical director of a community mental health center for children and their families, Host's typical day includes a mix of clinical, teaching, and administrative responsibilities as well as advocacy activities. Clinical activities include conducting psychiatric evaluations on children and adolescents, and/or following their response to medications, as well as providing consultation to various treatment teams within the agency. Teaching responsibilities range from formal lectures to trainees in child psychiatry, to providing clinical supervision to various trainees. Administrative responsibilities include participating in a variety of meetings that facilitate the ongoing operation of the agency. Advocacy activities are conducted on behalf of child psychiatrists, community psychiatrists, and family members who have children with severe mental illness, through leadership positions in the Ohio Psychiatric Physicians Association, the American Association of Community Psychiatrists, and the Ohio chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Extern would learn about and/or experience aspects of any or all of the above, depending on their level of interest. Reply Code: HEA002

Akron, OH
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow an interventional radiologist. This is a subspecialty within the broader field of radiology. Though Host does general raidology as well, interventional radiology is a hands-on field where Host performs image-guided procedures. These include angiograms, venous access, liver and kidney interventions, bone procedures, biopsies, and many more. The ideal student is one that is interested in a medical profession. This is a great way to experience the radiology specialty - at least for a day. Radiology is a field that gets little exposure in medical school. Reply Code: HEA065

Cincinnati, OH
Available: Opportunity for a student to come to office or the operating room to observe patients. Reply Code: HEA059

Cincinnati, OH
Available: Opportunity for a student to spend time on a busy neurosurgical service including seeing critically ill patients and observing brain or spine operations. Reply Code: HEA014

Cleveland, OH
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow dermatologic surgeon. Reply Code: HEA025

Cleveland, OH
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in pediatric physical therapy at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital; inpatient-outpatient coverage. Reply Code: HEA082

Columbus, OH
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow an alum who has a private gynecology practice and also does clinical research in women's health. Student would have the opportunity to see how a medical practice works and also the process by which new treatments, such as contraception and hormone treatments, get FDA approval. The practice is a nice blend of practical patient care and cutting-edge clinical research. Reply Code: HEA010

Columbus, OH
Available: Opportunity for a student to experience a surburban medical oncology office in which we individual rooms are designated for chemotherapy (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays). On Tuesdays, Host travels to office in Logan, Ohio. Chemotherapy is ordered, mixed, and then administered to patients. Office does its own billing. Reply Code: HEA130

 

Solon, OH
Available: Opportunity to shadow a medical spine physician. Host treats patients who have back/neck pain. This might involve using medication, prescribing physical therapy, pain management, or providing orders to a spine surgeon. Host also incoporates osteopathic manipulation. Reply Code: HEA077

 

Oregon

Bend, OR
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow an alum whose company develops drug delivery technologies and uses them in conjunction with many external clients to advance drugs through the various stages of development and clinical trials. Extern will observe experiments and what scientists do day-to-day. Reply Code: HEA084

Bend, OR
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in a private practice of diagnostic radiology. Evaluate x-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, and MRIs. Observe the performance of minor interventional procedures. Reply Code: HEA093

Metro Portland, OR
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe a physician practicing comprehensive adult and pediatric ophthalmology. Clinical and/or operating room exposure is available. Reply Code: HEA095

 

Rhode Island

Providence, RI
Available: Opportunity for student to participate in patient rounds with residents and attendings in the morning (caring for critically ill neurosurgical patients in the ICU), seeing new patients in the ER, and observing surgery in the operating room. Reply Code: HEA003

 

Pennsylvania

Lancaster, PA
Available: Opportunity for a student to spend a day in OB/GYN office. Reply Code: HEA016 

Philadelphia, PA
Available: Opportunity for student to learn about the systems and processes necessary to keep a busy radiology department diagnose and treat patients. Reply Code: HEA004

Philadelphia, PA
Available: Opportunity for a student to be exposed to the day-to-day operations of a large-scale clinical trial of behavioral treatment for substance abuse. Student would have the opportunity to observe clinical interviews, learn about various systems for tracking patients and managing data, and possibly attend staff meetings. This externship would be valuable for someone considering a career in psychology, mental health, or medicine. Reply Code: HEA080

Philadelphia, PA
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe inpatient general surgical care at quaternary specialty hospital. Reply Code: HEA124

 

Texas 

Austin, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to be exposed to private practice neuroradiology. Host does myelograms and reads MRIs and CT studies from all over regional practice. Reply Code: HEA073 

Dallas, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow an orthopedic spine surgeon. Student would observe Host seeing patients, diagnosing problems, reviewing MRIs, and examining patients. On Tuesdays or Thursdays, student may have the opportunity to shadow Host in surgery while performing surgical procedures. Reply Code: HEA058 

Fort Worth, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a surgical specialist. Experience would include rounding on patients that have had surgery, observing surgical procedures, and evaluating patients in the office. The hospital is Harris Methodist Fort Worth and is an 800 bed level II trauma center. There are a large number of neurosurgical procedures performed at this hospital along wtih the full complement of medical specialists. Extern will get a glimpse of the outpatient aspect of medicine including office management, medical records, and the interface between a physicians practice and the hospital. Reply Code: HEA138

Dallas, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a spine surgeon. Externs would experience daily clinic as well as operating room procedures. Reply Code: HEA009 

Houston, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to be able to participate in ward rounds and to observe cardiovascular surgery at the Texas Heart Institute. Reply Code: HEA001

Houston, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to accompany an alum, a senior resident in radiation oncology. Alum is starting an assistant professorship in July 2009. Student may observe on a day of patient care and research activities at a leading cancer center, see patients in consultation for radiation therapy, the treatment planning process, and treatments themselves. In addition, students are welcome to tour and interact with the basic science and clinical research opportunities available as part of a physician-scientist career. Extern would need to agree to comply with patient privacy stipulations. Reply Code: HEA039

Houston, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a medical oncologist at a large academic institution. Host treats lung cancer and head and neck cancer patients. Goal of the externship would be to observe a nedical doctor in this setting. Reply Code: HEA043

Houston, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to assist a child and adult psychiatrist. Host splits time between 50% academic and 50% private practice. On a typical day, Host spends 4 hours seeing patients from medication management and new evaluations and then 4 hours at UTHouston supervising psychiatrist residents and fellows in their care of psychiatric patients. Reply Code: HEA045

Houston, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow a seasoned pediatrician. University professor with many non-clinical duties (if academic medicine appeals to student, discussion welcome). Host is also willing to discuss the need for balancing work/life issues. Reply Code: HEA066

Houston, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe a cleft palate-craniofacial team meeting at a major metropolitan children's hospital for children with facial birth defects. Student would observe speech-language assessments as well as a multidisciplinary meeting in which patient's complex medical needs are addressed. Reply Code: HEA070

Plano, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to observe a plastic surgery practice. Depending on the day of the week, student will view office visits and procedures and/or operating room procedures. Limited to females (most of the patients are women). No male students. Reply Code: HEA034

San Antonio, TX
Available: Opportunity for a student to gain experience following a vascular surgeon for a day. Externship may include observing operations, rounds, and seeing patient in clinic. Reply Code: HEA012

 

Virginia

Virginia Beach, VA
Available: Opportunity for a student to participate in a multi-location, academically affiliated ophthalmology subspecialty practice in vitreo-retinal disease and ocular oncology. Student will observe our clinical and operating room activities. Reply Code: HEA063

Warrenton, VA
Available: Opportunity for a student to see patients, learn some basic medicine, and mainly discuss what a doctor and a pediatrician do as well as premed and medical school training. Reply Code: HEA096

Woodbridge, Virginia (N. Virginia/Wash. D.C.)
Available: Opportunity for a student to see a busy surgical practice and determine if a career in medicine is attractive. Student could spend 1/2 day observing outpatient surger,y and 1/2 day in the office seeing patients. Reply Code: HEA122

 

Washington

Gig Harbor/Tacoma, WA
Available: Opportunity for a student to experience a typical day in the life of an orthopaedic surgeon. Reply Code: HEA050

Wisconsin

La Crosse, WI
Available: Opportunity for a student to follow Host in the clinic for the day, observing care of patients with neurological disorders. Reply Code: HEA060

Mequon, Wisconsin
Available: Opportunity for a student to shadow an alum who specializes in varicose veins. Find out more about superficial phlebitis, whether the superficial femoral vein is really superfluous, if vein stripping is necessary, and basics of phlebology (veins). Reply Code: HEA033

Milwaukee, WI
Available: Oppotunity for a student to shadow a senior children's hospital administrator. Exposure to hospital operations and opportunity available to dialogue with different leaders in Host's organization. Reply Code: HEA135

 

International

Trujillo, Peru
Available: Opportunity for a student to be a part of a 21st century, truly natural and scientific healthcare facility in a third-world country.  High volume chiropractic clinic in northern Peru helps thousands recover from serious health problems and regain vitality in their lives.  Student will be exposed to every aspect of the practice, from communication and cultural barriers to marketing, publicity, and individual patient work-up and care. This is a truly distinct experience that Host offers to those thinking about pursuing a degree in healthcare outside of an MD degree. Reply Code: HEA103

Athens, Greece
Available: Opportunity for a student to experience care of cancer patients with a medical oncology group in a private hospital. Please note all care is in Greek, so knowledge in this language is very important for a good experience, though all doctors and many patients speak English. Reply Code: HEA110