Clinical Health Summer Program

A seven-week program, the Clinical Health Summer Program provides students with clinical experiences in health care agencies as well as academic enrichment activities. The program targets disadvantaged students accepted to or enrolled in a health science or health-related curriculum at Elizabeth City State University, NC Central University or the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

While enrolled in the program, students work forty hours a week in a health agency under the supervision of professionals in medicine, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, public health, veterinary medicine, nursing, health administration, or allied health. In addition, they visit health care facilities and agencies outside of their area of employment and participate in health sciences seminars and presentations. All the while, they receive a competitive stipend.

In return, students are required to write an essay and take photographs to document their experience as well as to complete and present a research paper or project based on a health-related topic of their choice.

All candidates must be interested in pursuing an allied health, graduate or professional health program beyond the undergraduate level. Successful candidates are most often freshmen or sophomores with a minimum 2.5 GPA. Juniors and seniors are occasionally admitted to the program.

For more information on the CHSP Program, contact the NC-HCAP office at your institution.