Clinical Externships

Practical experience in preparation for entering the job market

How this works

You

  • Demonstrate real world ability to apply the knowledge and skills you acquired in college to help with your job search and/or graduate school applications—or just to help clarify your career direction

  • Work with us to define a project before starting the externship then commit to 1-3 months of full-time engagement to complete the assignment

  • Complete a project to add to your professional portfolio as you take the next steps on your career journey

We

  • Provide clinical and research material and resources to complete a meaningful project

  • Oversee and guide your work to stay on track and generate solutions that have direct application in our research into complex rectal cancer care and minimally invasive surgical technique innovation.

  • Give you a front-row seat in a dynamic, leading clinical and research surgical practice where there is a short distance between patient bedside to scientific investigation

Priority interest areas

  • Cataloging and archiving operative videos, still images, and presentations. Possible recovery of data from hard drives. Familiarity with tape, disc, and cloud storage.

  • Advanced Excel skills, consolidation of Excel workbooks and auto-population of daughter spreadsheets

  • Design sophisticated interactive audiovisual interfaces for the operating room, professional education, and patient communication with solid IT integration. Convey through the user experience the signature clinical innovations we develop.

  • Work with a rich longitudinal data set that encompasses treatment regimen evolutions; analyze surgeon skill acquisition; evaluate new technology adoption and performance.

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