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IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships

Educate. Engage. Enlighten.medicine.iu.edu/LHSI

Brandi Gilbert, MPHDirector, Life-Health Sciences Internships

March 13, 2009

Educating, Engaging, and Enlightening IUPUI Undergraduates

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 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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IUPUI Life-Health Sciences Internships

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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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• 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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Types of Experiences- Laboratory Research

School of MedicineSchool of Dentistry

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Types of Experiences- Social and Behavioral Research

School of MedicineSchool of NursingSchool of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences

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Types of Experiences- Professional

School of MedicineSchool of Medicine Genetic Counseling ProgramSchool of Optometry labsClarian Health Pharmacy

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• 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

Standards of Practice: Eight Principles of Good Practice for

All Experiential Learning Activities

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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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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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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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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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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 Program

LHSI

Senior

Thesis/Capstone

Graduation

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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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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 FormDuring 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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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 servedPurdue 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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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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LHSI Orientation

Safety trainingHiring paperwork

Details of the programMeet other LHSI interns

Selection and Interviews

Applications reviewed by selection committeeStudents interview with at least two mentors

Feedback from students and mentorsMatched with a location

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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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Participants periodically fill out online surveys about program events.

Community-Building Events

• Panel discussions• Workshops• Informal events• National Student Employment

Appreciation Week

• Notified of other on-campus events of interest

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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

3. 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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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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