For College Students
Career 911
This online course, subtitled "Your Future Job in Medicine and Healthcare," offers insight into healthcare career options and strategies for entering the workforce.
Community Health in Action Mentorship Program (CHAMP)
The focus of this six-week program is on community health and public health through the lens of Lurie Children’s pillars; students will get to work on their own public health projects.
ChicagoCHEC Research Fellows Program
This comprehensive learning experience is designed Chicago-area undergraduate and postbaccalaureate students who are planning to apply to graduate or medical school. Trainees will learn academic, technical and professional skills in preparation for careers in social, behavioral and biomedical research and healthcare.
EMPOWER (Encouraging Mentoring & Preparing on Workforce Education Readiness)
This six-week paid internship for young adults with minor or chronic disabilities places students in non-clinical entry-level positions.
HERO (Higher Educational Readiness Opportunities)
College students at Arrupe College of Loyola are offered paid clinical shadowing internships to prepare them to pursue careers in healthcare.
Inspire 2
Inspire2 provides nursing students with the opportunity to interact with experienced pediatric nursing professionals to help ensure their success in the classroom and beyond.
Katz Summer Scholars Program
The Robert Louis Katz and Manne Research Institute Summer Scholars Program engages undergraduates in research pertaining to pediatric health and disease.
Kimberly Querrey Summer Research Program
This six-week paid internship is designed for students who plan to pursue degrees in biological science and combines intensive research training with support for their academic and professional development.
NM Non-Clinical Internships
Northwestern Medicine has a variety of paid summer internships for students interested in pursuing a career in healthcare in a non-clinical capacity. Programs last eight to 12 weeks and give participants opportunities to network with NM leadership.
NM Pre-Medicine Internship Program
Pre-med students can join this program for the opportunity to work at a premier academic medical center for the summer.
NMH Student Nursing Internship
This paid, eight-week summer internship targeted for BSN-prepared nursing students.
NU DOCS
NU Docs is a 10-month-long pathway program designed to provide an immersive, weeklong introduction to careers in medicine for Northwestern University undergraduate students.
NU Path
NU Path, through partnership with the Arch Scholars programs at Northwestern University, offers exposure to medicine through mentoring, tutoring and workshops for participating students interested in a pre-health or pre-med track.
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Pre-Physician Assistant Internship
This eight-week summer program is designed for promising undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing a career as a physician assistant. Students will receive experience in both clinical observation and focused project work.
Radiology Internship Program
During this eight-week program, prospective radiology professionals will be exposed to multiple roles within the field. Successful participants will be offered a role at NM while they pursue their degree.
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Senior Mentoring Educational Development (M.E.D.) Research Program
This two-week program provides undergraduate students with healthcare career exposure, workforce development and research skills.
STEAMbassadors
This mentorship workforce initiative engages college students in strengthening and sharing their STEAM (science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics) interests and passions with middle-school aged youth from their communities, with the goal of integrating STEAM into everyday out-of-school time.
Year Up
Year Up is an intensive skills-training program for underserved young adults.The first Year Up Chicago cohort working within Feinberg’s Research Administration recently completed the program.