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Medical Internship The Medical Internship takes place during the summer break with a variety of international humanitarian medical aid agencies that serve people in need throughout the world. Professor Thomas Tierney, Director of the Pre-Health Advising Program, oversees the Medical Internship. Students who participate in the Medical Internship program work with faculty mentors from across the disciplines, including members of the Pre-Health Advisory Committee; this advisor supervises the reflective and academic components of the internships. The Internship is designed to engage students who are pursuing health-related careers or other occupations where knowledge of healthcare issues will be important. It attracts students from a variety of majors, including Biology, Chemistry, Economics, History, International Relations, Psychology, Sociology, and Religious Studies. By working with individuals who have committed their lives to serve the under-served, interns become more sophisticated in their questions about embodied ethics and how the values they hold will affect their life's work. This experience enhances the students' understanding of their life's calling and how they can improve the quality of the lives of others. For those students who do pursue health-related careers after graduation, this internship experience will help them understand that medical healing involves spiritual, reflective, and ethical dimensions as wells as the physical dimension.
Thomas F Tierney, Pre-Health Advisor Thomas F. Tierney teaches in the Political Science and Philosophy departments, and has served as Chair of the Pre-Health Advising Program since 2000. His research interests are in the area of medical ethics, and the role of medicine in modern culture. He has participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Literature, Medicine, and Culture, and is actively involved with the promotion of humanities in pre-medical and medical education. He advises students who are pursuing health-related careers about course selection, internships, volunteer activity, and the professional school application process. He has directed the Lilly Project’s Medical Humanitarian Internship program for the last three years, and enjoys providing students with the opportunity to explore their vocational commitment by working with humanitarian organizations throughout the world. Read the Press Release about the experiences of the 2003 Medical Humanitarian Interns. Medical Humanitarian Interns for the summer of
2008: Medical Humanitarian Interns for the summer of
2007: Medical Humanitarian Interns for the summer of 2006: Nicholas Weida Medical Humanitarian Interns for the summer of 2005: Katie
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Aaron Bergman
Students are responsible for finding a program that interests them. For tips for students looking for international health organizations, go to http://www.imva.org/Pages/studtips.htm The following are links to various Humanitarian Medical Organizations and are meant to merely hint at the possibilities of what is out there. http://www.doctorsworldwide.org/links.htm Additionally, please visit Wooster's Pre-health
Advising Program: Click here to explore our ReIntegration Program, a program for students returning from off campus experiences.
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