2. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
Objectives/Benefits/Outcomes of Presentation:
• To present an overview of the Life-Health Sciences Internships program
at IUPUI.
• To provide a model for other universities and organizations seeking to
create a similar program.
• To share successes and lessons learned in the first two years.
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3. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
The Life-Health Sciences Internships program connects IUPUI life
and health sciences undergraduates with research and
professional experience internships on and near the IUPUI
campus
This program allows students to explore their career objectives
and future career pathways, while also fostering valuable
professional connections between students and faculty and staff.
The students belong to a community of interns and mentors
who support one another throughout the internship experience and
beyond.
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4. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
• Apply in February/March, Interview in April/May
• Up to 50 IUPUI undergraduates per academic year
• Start in late August and end in early May
• $10/hr for up to 10 hours/week
• Community-building events- spend time with other participants in
program
• Poster presentation event at end of internship for interns to present
work- April 9, 2009
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5. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
Types of Experiences- Laboratory Research
School of Medicine
School of Dentistry
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6. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
Types of Experiences- Social and Behavioral Research
School of Medicine
School of Nursing
School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
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7. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
Types of Experiences- Professional
School of Medicine
School of Medicine Genetic Counseling Program
School of Optometry labs
Clarian Health Pharmacy
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8. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
Standards of Practice: Eight Principles of Good Practice for
All Experiential Learning Activities
•Intention
•Preparedness and Planning
•Authenticity
•Reflection
•Orientation and Training
•Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
•Assessment and Evaluation
•Acknowledgment
Source: National Society for Experiential Education. Presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting, Norfolk, VA
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Intention
All parties must be clear from the outset why experience is the chosen
approach to the learning that is to take place and to the knowledge that will
be demonstrated, applied or result from it. Intention represents the
purposefulness that enables experience to become knowledge and, as
such, is deeper than the goals, objectives, and activities that define the
experience.
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10. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
To help students:
• Connect with future career and school
• Clarify career and academic goals
• Interact with future professors, coworkers
CTE Priority 1. Enhance excellence in undergraduate teaching and learning
and undergraduate research in the life sciences.
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11. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
1. Interface with existing first-year retention initiatives and with upper class
programs
2. Provide first hand, career-related experiences in the laboratory and
clinical settings of our campus professional schools
3. Promote collaboration between faculty members in undergraduate and
professional schools
4. Provide a continuous campus connection for students
5. Facilitate the work of the IUPUI Human Resources CTE program
6. Build on excellence
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12. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
In accord with the mission of IUPUI as Indiana’s urban research and
academic health sciences campus, we propose life-health sciences research
internships at IUPUI to both provide career development experiences for
our undergraduate students and improve learning and retention in
undergraduate programs. This program will integrate the campus’ and
University life sciences priority with the initiatives to double teaching and
learning, research, scholarship, creative activity, and diversity.
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13. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
There is an existing Commitment to Excellence fund supported Freshman
Work Program (FWP) based in the IUPUI Biology Department in which
freshman work in Biology laboratories and other disciplinary settings under
the supervision of full-time faculty and staff members. This program
promotes student engagement with their departments and has had
demonstrable positive effect on student retention. There also is a for-credit
senior thesis or capstone experience for many majors. Therefore, there is an
opportunity to extend the engagement of these undergraduates in the
sophomore/junior years and produce a continuum where students work in
areas of disciplinary and career interests.
Freshman Work Senior
LHSI Graduation
Program Thesis/Capstone
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Preparedness and Planning
Participants must ensure that they enter the experience with sufficient
foundation to support a successful experience. They must also focus from
the earliest stages of the experience/program on the identified intentions,
adhering to them as goals, objectives and activities are defined. The
resulting plan should include those intentions and be referred to on a
regular basis by all parties. At the same time, it should be flexible enough to
allow for adaptations as the experience unfolds.
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15. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
Internship Agreement Form
• At least three learning objectives and the corresponding activities that will
accomplish these objectives.
• Discussion of some activities related to the project that the intern can participate
in throughout the duration of the internship. For example, the intern can attend
meetings that the mentor takes part in, attend a journal club in the field of study,
attend seminars, or any other activity that will enhance the learning experience.
Mentors are encouraged to attend with the interns but it is not required. The
mentor is strongly encouraged to invite the intern to attend relevant meetings in
which the mentor is currently involved.
• Focus on constructive learning experiences rather than just menial work. The
intern should be actively involved. Some busy work is acceptable, but the focus
should be on constructive learning.
• Set up weekly meetings so that the intern and mentor can review work on a
regular basis. Interns should feel comfortable asking questions and raising
concerns and mentors should be available to address these questions and
concerns.
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Internship Agreement Form
During the period of August 25, 2008 to May 9, 2009, the intern will accomplish the following:
Learning Objective 1:
How this will be accomplished:
Learning Objective 2:
How this will be accomplished:
Learning Objective 3:
How this will be accomplished:
Opportunities for participation related to internship - meetings, journal clubs, seminars, etc. (you are not
required to attend these specific functions, but take a minute to consider the options available to enhance your
experience throughout the year):
__________________________________ ______________________________ _________________
Print Name (Intern) Signature (Intern) Date
__________________________________ ______________________________ _________________
Print Name (Mentor) Signature (Mentor) Date
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Authenticity
The experience must have a real world context and/or be useful and
meaningful in reference to an applied setting or situation. This means that
is should be designed in concert with those who will be affected by or use
it, or in response to a real situation.
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18. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
We propose a program in which sophomore/junior students gain valuable
experience and explore potential careers through life-health sciences research
internships in career goal-appropriate environments. The Deans/leaders of
the participating locations have agreed to provide research/professional
internship experiences for IUPUI students within the proposed program.
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Locations
IU School of Dentistry
IU School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
IU School of Medicine
IU School of Medicine Genetic Counseling Program
IU School of Nursing
IU School of Optometry clinics
Clarian Health Pharmacy
Clarian Health hospitals
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IUPUI students currently served
Purdue School of Science (endorsed by Dean)
•Biology
•Chemistry & Chemical Biology
•Psychology
Purdue School of Engineering & Technology (endorsed by Dean)
•Biomedical Engineering
Indiana University School of Physical Education & Tourism Management
•Physical Education, Exercise Science track
Pre-Professional
•medicine
•dentistry
•physical therapy
•pharmacy
•optometry
•veterinary medicine
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21. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
Orientation and Training
For the full value of the experience to be accessible to both the learner
and the learning facilitator(s), and to any involved organizational partners,
it is essential that they be prepared with important background information
about each other and about the context and environment in which the
experience will operate. Once that baseline of knowledge is addressed,
ongoing structured development opportunities should also be included to
expand the learner’s appreciation of the context and skill requirements of
her/his work.
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Selection and Interviews
Applications reviewed by selection committee
Students interview with at least two mentors
Feedback from students and mentors
Matched with a location
LHSI Orientation
Safety training
Hiring paperwork
Details of the program
Meet other LHSI interns
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Reflection
Reflection is the element that transforms simple experience to a learning
experience. For knowledge to be discovered and internalized the learner
must test assumptions and hypotheses about the outcomes of decisions
and actions taken, then weigh the outcomes against past learning and
future implications. This reflective process is integral to all phases of
experiential learning, from identifying intention and choosing the
experience, to considering preconceptions and observing how they
change as the experience unfolds. Reflection is also an essential tool for
adjusting the experience and measuring outcomes.
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Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
Any learning activity will be dynamic and changing, and the parties
involved all bear responsibility for ensuring that the experience, as it is in
process, continues to provide the richest learning possible, while affirming
the learner. It is important that there be a feedback loop related to learning
intentions and quality objectives and that the structure of the experience
be sufficiently flexible to permit change in response to what that feedback
suggests. While reflection provides input for new hypotheses and
knowledge based in documented experience, other strategies for
observing progress against intentions and objectives should also be in
place. Monitoring and continuous improvement represent the formative
evaluation tools.
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Community-Building Events
• Panel discussions
• Workshops
• Informal events
• National Student Employment
Appreciation Week
• Notified of other on-campus events of
interest
Participants periodically fill out online surveys
about program events.
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Assessment and Evaluation
Outcomes and processes should be systematically documented with
regard to initial intentions and quality outcomes. Assessment is a means
to develop and refine the specific learning goals and quality objectives
identified during the planning stages of the experience, while evaluation
provides comprehensive data about the experiential process as a whole
and whether it has met the intentions which suggested it.
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Outcomes and Assessment Criteria
1. Participants will enroll in at least 12 credits for the semester (usually
fall) following the end of the program.
2. Participants periodically fill out self-assessments of skills learned;
mentors periodically fill out assessments of intern’s skills learned;
entrance and exit interviews for participants.
Evaluations during site visits
1. Data collection on persistence to degree and professional school
placement.
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Acknowledgment
Recognition of learning and impact occur throughout the experience by
way of the reflective and monitoring processes and through reporting,
documentation and sharing of accomplishments. All parties to the
experience should be included in the recognition of progress and
accomplishment. Culminating documentation and celebration of learning
and impact help provide closure and sustainability to the experience.
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30. IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships
LHSI Spring Poster Session
On Friday, April 11, 2008 Life-Health
Sciences Internships held a poster
session for the 2007-2008 intern group.
34 students presented posters to over
125 attendees.
The 2009 Poster Session will be held on
Thursday, April 9. Over 40 students are
expected to present posters.
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