Health Science Graduate Cheryl Lingbanan
and Internship Coordinator Caroline Berger
UCSC Health Science majors must serve an internship at health care facilities in the Monterey Bay Area or elsewhere. These internships engage students in meaningful community service and, most importantly, provide an opportunity to gain first-hand experience with the types of issues faced by health care professionals, as well as the skills needed to effectively deal with them. Interns earn 5 units of academic credit per quarter during the internship.
Health Sciences Coordinator Caroline Berger counsels and helps place students in internships at local hospitals, clinics and other facilities. Each intern is trained and mentored on-site by a health care professional, and assigned to a faculty advisor from UCSC's Dept. of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, who helps the student integrate academic coursework and research experience with the practical lessons learned in the field.
See the following links for more information:
Students wishing to participate in the Internship Program should bring a completed application to the Internship Information Meeting,
which is offered in the second week of each quarter, or contact Coordinator Caroline Berger.
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Interviews with Internship
Participants and Sponsors
 Christopher Jones was an intern in 2005 at Salud Para La Gente, a low income community clinic, and with Sweet Success, a diabetes prevention program. Christopher is now in medical school at UCSF.
I knew exactly what I wanted out of my internship experience, but I ended up getting so much more. I wanted a clinical experience where I could use my budding medical Spanish .... "
(click here for the complete interview)
 Sarah Broker was an intern at the Homeless Persons Health Project in Santa Cruz in 2006. She now works as a Health Client Benefits Representative with the MediCruz program of Santa Cruz County.
"I'd always been interested in the connections between psychological well-being and physical health, and I feel that I found the perfect internship working with a benefits representative at the Homeless Persons Health Project (HPHP). I was introduced to an amazing group of people at HPHP, especially my sponsor, Ron Dudley .... " (click here for the full interview).
 Dr. Larry deGhetaldi is the President of the Santa Cruz Division of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and CEO of Sutter Santa Cruz. He is also an alumnus of UC Santa Cruz.
"Today, UCSC alumni play an importent role in the health care system of the Monterey Bay. Many UCSC students, for example, have gone on to the Family Practice Residency at Natividad Hospital in Salinas, and now work .... (click here for the full interview).
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