During and After the Internship
Public Health Undergraduate Internships
To do during your internship
Step 1
Weeks 1-2 during internship
- Work on your learning competency form.
- Review optional internship activities.
- Adjust to internship site.
- Dr. Elliott sends out a welcome email to both you and your preceptor with all of the paperwork deadlines, and schedule times in advance to go over them.
- Upload your learning competency form by Wednesday of week 2 in Canvas. If you are splitting your internship, you don’t need to submit one for the second term unless your activities have changed.
- Start working on your professional internship portfolio.
Step 2
Weeks 4-5 during internship
- Work on the midway progress report with your preceptor. Upload it to Canvas by Wednesday of week 5.
- If you will be seeking a job after your internship, discuss jobs with your site and start looking for jobs, applying, etc. See below for job resources.
- Update LinkedIn profile.
- Continue to work on final professional internship portfolio.
Step 3
Weeks 10-11 during internship
- Work on the final evaluation with your preceptor.
- Upload the final evaluation and final professional internship portfolio to Canvas by Tuesday of finals week.
- Upload optional internship activities by Tuesday of finals week.
- Upload hours sheet by Tuesday of finals week
- Thank the internship site with a card.
Job Resources
HPHB career options
- Community health workers
- Health-wellness program coordinator
- Health promotion specialist
- Public health educator
- Health program coordinator
- Patient navigator
Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES)
HMP career options
- Long term care administrator
- Hospital administrator
- Human resource managers
- Health communications specialist
- Clinic manager
- Health policy analyst
Other career resources
- Public Health Careers
- Oregon Public Health Association
- American College of Healthcare Executives
- American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management
- Health Care Administrators Association
- Society for Public Health Education
- National Association of County and City Health Officials
- AmeriCorps*VISTA
- Association of Schools & Programs of Public Health
- Explore Health Careers