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The Veterinary School at the University of Pennsylvania offers a summer program for both college and high school students (11th and 12th graders). The Veterinary Exploration Through Science (VETS) program is an exciting experience held during the summer of 2013. This is a day program of one week sessions. Three sessions have been designed specifically for college students and two sessions have been designed for high school students. The program has been created for those who are interested in the science of veterinary medicine. 

Students will participate in rotations with our fourth-year vet students and experience veterinary medicine throughout our small animal hospital. Some areas the students might rotate through are Cardiology, Medicine, Dentistry and Oral Surgery, Emergency Services and Surgery/Orthopedics. Special labs in Pathology, Microbiology and Anatomy have been created specifically for the students participating in our program which will be taught by our renowned faculty or veterinary students. 

Additionally, a whole day will be devoted to our New Bolton Center, our large animal facility. Students will tour through the Marshak Dairy, Widener Hospital for Large Animals, and Sports Medicine Treadmill. This ambitious program will also be supplemented by several lectures such as Public Health, Toxicology, Working Dogs and Clinical Trials to name a few. 

A student panel discussion will be held with our current vet students which will provide participants the opportunity to learn firsthand about our veterinary school through the student perspective. Additionally, participants will interact with members of the Admissions Office who are coordinating this program. One-on-one sessions with an Admissions officer can be arranged.

Applications for the Summer of 2013 will be available on www.vet.upenn.edu in mid January. 

Sessions: (Tentative Dates….DATES will be confirmed on website by mid January)

COLLEGE             

Week 1         May 20 - 24

Week 2         June 3 - 7

Week 3         June 17 - 21

HIGH SCHOOL (for Current Juniors and Seniors)   

Week 4         July 15 - 19

Week 5         July 29 – Aug 2

For additional information, please visit:

http://www.vet.upenn.edu/EducationandTraining/StudentAdmissions/SummerVETSProgram/tabid/1506/Default.aspx

You may also call 215-898-5434 or e-mail to summervets@vet.upenn.edu

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The Joan Nicole Prince Home is a 2-bedroom comfort care home for terminally ill residents who are unable to remain in their own home.  Volunteers serve as surrogate family members and provide direct hands-on bedside resident care.  We currently have over a dozen students volunteering at the Joan Nicole Prince Home, but most will leave the area for the summer leaving the home in need of caregivers.  Students volunteering at the home come from various institutions such as Union College, Ellis School of Nursing, Albany Medical College, Albany College of Pharmacy, SUNY Albany etc…, so it is a wonderful place to learn interprofessional education (IPE).

Our students have learned tremendous lessons about patient-centered care from their work at the home, and I would love to see more students experience the valuable lessons to be learned by caring for people at such a vulnerable time in their lives.  During the summer, the home likes to train students that we know can volunteer for at least 4-8 hrs/week.  The home must have coverage from 7:00 am until 11 pm at night, so there is a lot of flexibility in shift coverage for students who will be working full time in other jobs.  Students should contact the home directly at www.joannicoleprincehome.org

Ideally students could train over their winter break so that they could volunteer at the home over the summer.

There are 22 of these comfort care homes in New York:  http://www.compassionandsupport.org/index.php/for_patients_families/hospice/homes_for_the_dying

The Penn State College of Medicine Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Programs for 2013. 

These programs bring undergraduates to our campus for a “summer-immersion” in biological research and an orientation to a career in biological sciences.  Any student that will not earn a  BS or BA by May 2013 is welcome to apply, although for the SURIP, the typical intern will be between their Sophomore and Senior year of undergraduate studies.  The SURIP would be most appropriate for students considering applying to PhD programs in the Biological/Biomedical Sciences and is not intended for students who will apply to medical school.  There is no clinical shadowing component to the internships.

Our goals are to provide a meaningful educational experience for undergraduates to prepare them for careers in cutting edge fields and to increase the pool of students considering graduate education in the life sciences. Participating faculty have a strong interest in mentoring young scholars as an integral part of their academic experience.  Each student accepted into these programs will be matched to one of these faculty mentors for a ten-week laboratory research experience.

Integral to our programs are twice weekly research/career seminars, a capstone presentation experience, and additional introductory experiences related to the professional culture of biological research.  Research interns will have the opportunity to live on our campus, and will receive a stipend to cover their living expenses during the summer.  The majority of our interns choose to live on campus and those that do so find living on campus a very positive experience.  In light of the fact that the budget for several of the programs does not permit us to cover the housing costs beyond the first month, we encourage you to make interested students aware of any small grant programs at your institution that might help interns offset the costs of on campus housing.

For more information and an online application form you may access our website at http://www.pennstatehershey.org/web/summerresearch/home.

The Academic Associate Program with the Emergency Medicine Service Line of the North Shore-LIJ Health System in Manhasset, NY search for a one-year, full-time, paid position in our department starting in June 2013.

"We are currently recruiting premedical students either in their senior year or recently graduated and are taking at least one year off prior to attending medical or graduate school. Academic Associates receive full benefits, a competitive stipend, and work closely with experienced researchers and faculty in the emergency department. 

An Academic Associate’s responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Aiding with developing new study protocols, IRB submissions, grant proposals, and a wide array of professional scholarly activities
• Overseeing the daily goings on of multiple research studies such as chart reviews, survey administration, data collection, data entry, patient identification and literature searches.
• Developing studies’ presentations and writing abstract submissions and manuscripts – for which they are frequently coauthors
• Serving on important departmental committees such as the Department of Emergency Medicine Research Committee
• Facilitating the coordination of special activities such as departmental symposia and Continuing Medical Education (CME) conferences
• Recruiting, training and managing a team of twelve to twenty-five volunteer research interns throughout the fall and spring semester, and close to sixty volunteer research interns during the summer, and
• Organizing educational activities for the research interns

Proficiency with software applications such as Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word is highly recommended among applicants.  Strong ambition, motivation, the ability to multitask, as well as interpersonal and leadership skills are absolutely necessary for these positions.

If you would like to further explore this opportunity, please feel free to visit our website at http://nsuhed.com/academic-associates-programs.html.  We are currently accepting applications for the 2012-13 academic year and urge interested students to submit their cover letter, résumé, list of references, and unofficial transcript as soon as possible."

Contact  Emily Kintzer(ekintzer@nshs.edu) or Mark Wu (mwu3@nshs.edu) via e-mail or by calling 516-562-1514 with any questions.