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Internships
The internship program
in the Biology Department was organized
with the intent of giving Albion College
students an opportunity to experience a
profession under "real life"
conditions. In the program students spend
6 weeks during the summer (or if approved,
15 weeks during the semester) observing
first hand such professions as: medicine,
dentistry, veterinary medicine, nursing,
physical therapy, cardiopulmonary
respiratory therapy, optometry,
environmental biology, greenhouse
management, laboratory technician, and
natural resources. The internship carries
one-half unit (Biol 391) or one unit (Biol
392) of credit. General guidelines of the
program are:
- Participants must be
degree-seeking students at Albion
College.
- Students must have
completed a minimum of 2 years of
college in order to be eligible for an
appointment.
- Students must make a
written formal application by the
announced deadline. Application forms
are available from the Biology
Department Secretary.
- Internship
appointments are made by a screening
committee.
- Minimal
G.P.A.
required:
- 2.7 is college
minimum for all.
- End of Junior
year: 3.0 (3.2 for Premedical
Internships)
- Student must have
shown evidence of the following
personal characteristics:
responsibility, maturity, initiative,
social concern, good interpersonal
skills.
- Academic courses
suggested as useful for internships:
- Premedical and
predental internships: Anatomy,
Microbiology, Organic Chemistry,
Physiology.
- Physical therapy
internships: Anatomy, Physiology.
- Prenursing
internships: Anatomy,
Microbiology, Physiology.
- Cardiopulmonary
therapy internships: Anatomy,
Organic Chemistry, Physiology.
- Natural resources
internships: Field biology
courses, Geology.
- Laboratory
internships: Microbiology, Organic
Chemistry.
- Pre-optometry
internships: Anatomy, Physics.
- Student interns are
responsible for their own room and
board during their assignment. In many
cases cafeteria meals are available at
the institution at reduced rates.
Faculty will help in this area as much
as possible.
- Under certain
circumstances a student may be awarded
a second internship. Only one unit of
internship credit may be counted
toward the fulfillment of a major in
Biology.
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