Healthcare

Featured Internships

• Christ House – Students work one-on-one with patients. Nursing students and pre-professional health students may gain experience in wound care, taking vital signs, and talking with patients, all of whom are living at Christ House because they are homeless and suffering from a chronic illness such as diabetes, HIV, or cancer. (Only available during spring or summer term)

• Community of Hope Clinic – Work with low income patients and families in an outpatient clinic in the Adams Morgan neighborhood. Useful language skills include English, Amharic, and Spanish. Working with evening teen clinics is also an option. (Only available during summer term)

• Family Health and Birth Center is a birth center providing prenatal, birth, postnatal, gynecological and primary health care to women and their families. (Only available during summer term)

• Joseph’s House is a hospice home for homeless men and women who are are dying of AIDS and cancer. Interns at Joseph’s House will have the opportunity to work alongside alumni of EMU/WCSC.

• Maryland Sportscare and Rehab seeks pre-physical therapy students.

Hospitals and Clinics

• Jubilee Association
• La Clinica del Pueblo
• Mary’s Center (prenatal and child care)
• National Rehabilitation Hospital
• Mobile Medical Care
• Unity Health Care (Operates 13 local clincs)

Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy

• Washington Hospital Center
• National Rehabilitation Hospital
• VA Hospital
• Children’s Hospital
• HSC Pediatric Center