Internship and Community-based Projects
The final year of the program includes a requirement to do 80 clock hours of internship (taken as a 1.5-credit course).
Internship provides the student the ability to consolidate theoretical study with hands-on experience in a professional setting, such as hospitals, outpatient practices and other various sites. Please note that site availability fluctuates.
The Clinical Coordinator will assign each student to the optimal site available. It is the responsibility of the student to arrange transportation to their assigned clinical site. Requests for assignment to specific clinical sites may be accepted depending on availability in the semester prior to the clinical internship. Requests must be submitted in writing at least two months prior to the start of that semester. Assignment to a requested site is not assured; however, all requests will be carefully considered and granted if they meet the needs of the student and the Health Informatics Program.
Students evaluate healthcare information and their integration in the clinical facility. Students will review the types, use, integration, and clinical value of healthcare information systems in assigned clinical facilities. As a team, students assigned to a clinical site will devise evaluation criteria and tools, interview stakeholders, evaluate system interfaces, and analyze the integration of the systems in the overall patient care effort of the clinical facility if approved by the site preceptor.
Students are required to submit deliverables (i.e. attendance sheets, preceptor evaluations, evaluations of the clinical site , reports etc. during the Health Informatics Clinical Internship) to the Clinical Coordinator at the end of the Internship assignment. In addition, students must adhere to instructions and policies mentioned in the Clinical Internship Guidelines provided by the Clinical Coordinator.
CLINICAL INTERNSHIP PLACEMENT
In-Person Students
Students will be placed at an available affiliated clinical site by the program.
Distance Learning (Online) Students
Student must consult the Clinical Coordinator at least one semester prior to intended registration for the clinical internship course. Students may be placed :
- At an available clinical site (mostly in NYC or Long Island area) that has an active clinical affiliation agreement (in-person or remote if available).
- At a clinical site that is convenient to student but a clinical affiliation agreement must be established before placement. Student will be responsible for identifying such a clinical site and notify the Clinical Coordinator at least 3-5 months in advance of intended placement so that a communication for clinical affiliation agreement can be initiated with the proposed clinical site.
- In the Health Informatics Program to complete an approved project remotely to fulfill the clinical internship requirements.
Course grading criteria: PASS/FAIL