HIV Rotation Internship at the CCC

Hello SJMers,

I am recruiting for the HIV Rotation Internship at the St Lukes/Roosevelt/St. Vincents HIV clinic(s). If you are not interested, just disregard this email!

The Center for Comprehensive Care (St Lukes), Samuels Clinic (Roosevelt) and more recently at the West Village division combined have a patient population of just below 5,000 of New Yorkers affected by HIV. They provide a wealth of health care, mental health, case management services as well as conduct research. The staff at the Saint Luke's clinic have been receptive to postbacc student participation and have helped design this rotation. To remind you: the purpose of this internship rotation is to examine HIV care in low income communities from a comprehensive public health perspective with an eye towards being future physicians. We are looking for three postbaccs (at least two of whom should be first-years) to join the program, one or two of whom we hope will become future coordinators. As the year goes on, we hope to have your input as to how we can expand and/or deepen our impact on and experience within the CCC and even the HIV positive population of NYC.

Some logistics of the program:
• The main components include 1) shadowing doctors and assisting in a clinical setting 2) assisting public health research 3) providing assistance in constructing patient education workshops and (possibly) 4) administering satisfaction surveys.
• The weekly commitment is about 6 hours per week. While the hours are flexible to fit your schedule, once they are set it requires a consistent commitment, regardless of your exam schedule. We are extremely excited about the educational opportunities the CCC offers.

At this juncture, the CCC is looking for interns who speak Spanish to participate in their current studies. I would like to ask that you respond to this email with your resume and a paragraph about yourself, specifically why you are interested in this opportunity and what kind of experiences you may have had or skills you bring to the table that make you a good candidate. I also would like to remind you that this a two semester commitment, and that there will be other opportunities to get involved if you are a new postbacc and are worried about overextending yourself first semester or you are not a Spanish speaker. That said, this is a great opportunity to start collecting volunteer hours while doing something truly meaningful.

I know this is a holiday weekend so I'll say by Friday the 9th is when I'd like to have these. The sooner the better, of course.

Thanks again for your interest and ethusiasm, and I look forward to hearing from you!

~Danielle

danielle.beiling@gmail.com