SCHL 396 - Guthrie Scholars Premed Intern

Credits: Variable

Full-time, unpaid internship for Scholars wishing to attend medical school upon graduation. Takes place over an entire semester in-residence at the Guthrie Clinic and Robert Packer Hospital campus, a 254-bed teaching hospital with a Level II Trauma center, Intensive Care Unit, clinical skills lab, and other diagnostic, medical, and surgical services. Interns complete weekly reflection papers and time log, a research project, a medical terminology class, an observership in trauma and on Guthrie’s helicopter air-ambulance, skills lab training, clinical observations, medical/surgical grand rounds, resident and student lectures, and teaching rounds. Interns also shadow doctors, nurses, social workers, nutritionists, allied health care providers, and administrators across the Guthrie organization. Interns spend an average of 48 hours per week toward all requirements of the internship for 15 weeks. Credit hours: 12; letter grade. Prerequisites: SCHL127, SCHL280 (one section) and SCHL227 preferred. Junior level at the time of the internship preferred. Restricted to students enrolled in the Binghamton University Scholars Program. Permission of Scholars Executive Director, and an application process through Guthrie required.