Interested in biomedical sciences, medicine, nursing, dentistry physician assistant or public health?

The OHSU Summer Equity Internship Program offers:

• An exciting opportunity to spend eight weeks working with faculty, scientists, and graduate students in a research setting.
• Equity interns will learn new research skills and gain hands-on lab experience.
• Weekly seminars with fellow interns and faculty and scientists mentors 
• Scientific poster presentation of your summer research project.
• Ongoing mentoring and advising about your individual career pathway.
• Shadowing and clinical experience (MD Track).
• A paid stipend during the program.

The 2015 Summer Equity Internship Program is scheduled for June 15 – August 7. Equity interns will be selected in early April, and will work a maximum of 40 hours per work (including weekly seminars).

Who Should Apply

Eligible students:

• Have completed at least one full year of college coursework.
• Have completed coursework in a basic science with a lab setting (e.g. biology, chemistry, neuroscience, biopsychology) and mathematics course.
• Come from an underrepresented minority community. Underrepresented students belong to groups that are recognized as historically underrepresented in the health and science professions including: African-American/Black, Native American/Alaskan Native, Pacific Islander and Hispanics/Latinos.
• Have experienced social or economic disadvantages. Economically disadvantaged students are defined as individuals who come from a "low-income family," using low income levels specified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a guideline. Socially disadvantaged students come from an environment that may inhibit them from obtaining knowledge, skills or abilities required to enroll and successfully complete an undergraduate or graduate course of study that could lead to a career in the health sciences. This category includes but is not restricted to students whose parents did not attend or complete college.