Summer internship premed...ideas of how to find opportunities?

[Anonymous]

So if you are looking to major in eg Biology but have a goal in attending medical school, how can you find internships that matter?

I know that some questbridge scholars were able to get summer internships where they performed hands on surgery. That is a big boost to your application.

Is there a central database of such opportunities?

[Anonymous]

I would ask a doctor to shadow

[Anonymous]

You aren't applying med school from high school. You don't need to prove your interest/ability in medicine. And being jealous of opportunities for questbridge is not a good look.

[Anonymous]

It is certainly quite the feather in one's cap to be able to perform surgery as a high schooler. That definitely adds some hook to you extra curriculars.

Is there a database you can look at for these types of openings?

[Anonymous]

And no way a questbridge scholar, whether in high school or college, is performing surgery. Maybe they are watching surgery. It doesn't help an application into college. It is necessary for an application to medical school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I know that some questbridge scholars were able to get summer internships where they performed hands on surgery. That is a big boost to your application.

What?!

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And no way a questbridge scholar, whether in high school or college, is performing surgery. Maybe they are watching surgery. It doesn't help an application into college. It is necessary for an application to medical school.

Wrong...

https://cchscentaurian.com/7394/news/sisters-earn-prestigious-questbridge-scholarship/

"The sisters spent some of their summers working internships, which is something most colleges like to see as it shows true interest in the field they wish to pursue. Isabella, planning to major in the medical field, interned at Kaiser-Permanente, and was able to learn about the studies of medicine and even performed hands on surgery to some patients."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And no way a questbridge scholar, whether in high school or college, is performing surgery. Maybe they are watching surgery. It doesn't help an application into college. It is necessary for an application to medical school.

Wrong...

https://cchscentaurian.com/7394/news/sisters-earn-prestigious-questbridge-scholarship/

"The sisters spent some of their summers working internships, which is something most colleges like to see as it shows true interest in the field they wish to pursue. Isabella, planning to major in the medical field, interned at Kaiser-Permanente, and was able to learn about the studies of medicine and even performed hands on surgery to some patients."

NP, a HS sophomore wrote that article. The HS girls did not perform hands on surgery. They could have watched. They could have done a simulation or a preserved deceased animal. This was not by a human on a human surgery. Is that what you think???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And no way a questbridge scholar, whether in high school or college, is performing surgery. Maybe they are watching surgery. It doesn't help an application into college. It is necessary for an application to medical school.

Wrong...

https://cchscentaurian.com/7394/news/sisters-earn-prestigious-questbridge-scholarship/

"The sisters spent some of their summers working internships, which is something most colleges like to see as it shows true interest in the field they wish to pursue. Isabella, planning to major in the medical field, interned at Kaiser-Permanente, and was able to learn about the studies of medicine and even performed hands on surgery to some patients."

NP, a HS sophomore wrote that article. The HS girls did not perform hands on surgery. They could have watched. They could have done a simulation or a preserved deceased animal. This was not by a human on a human surgery. Is that what you think???

NP, exactly. Having an unlicensed person perform surgery is ripe for a lawsuit for both the facility and doctor in charge.

[Anonymous]

Many kids get trained as EMTs and work that job

[Anonymous]

Inova offers internships in summer. I am sure other large hospital systems have similar programs.

[Anonymous]

Some students work as a scribe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And no way a questbridge scholar, whether in high school or college, is performing surgery. Maybe they are watching surgery. It doesn't help an application into college. It is necessary for an application to medical school.

Wrong...

https://cchscentaurian.com/7394/news/sisters-earn-prestigious-questbridge-scholarship/

"The sisters spent some of their summers working internships, which is something most colleges like to see as it shows true interest in the field they wish to pursue. Isabella, planning to major in the medical field, interned at Kaiser-Permanente, and was able to learn about the studies of medicine and even performed hands on surgery to some patients."

NP, a HS sophomore wrote that article. The HS girls did not perform hands on surgery. They could have watched. They could have done a simulation or a preserved deceased animal. This was not by a human on a human surgery. Is that what you think???

Well, it's Kaiser and with the current state of healthcare in this country it's not implausible that they are recruiting HS kids to treat patients. LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Inova offers internships in summer. I am sure other large hospital systems have similar programs.

No, they don't.

[Anonymous]

Now we have high school students claiming as an EC that they perform surgery?