The Department of Pediatrics is delighted to announce the launch of the third annual full-time summer internship program in the Department, designed to provide high school, college, and graduate students with exposure to the field of Pediatric medicine and familiarization with career opportunities in medicine and research.
We encourage all summer volunteers and mentors to go through this structured internship.
Eligibility:
- Weill Cornell and other medical students
- University/college graduates
- Current university/college students
- Current high school juniors/seniors (to be determined by mentors)
This internship will provide alignment of interests between the intern and mentor, promote an equal opportunity and selection process for external interns, as well as provide an opportunity for junior faculty to be paired with students. The internship will also allow our rising second-year medical students to be exposed to programs in Pediatrics in advance to determining which area of concentration is right for them. This structure will provide us with an opportunity to streamline our volunteer application process during the summer months.
There will be five pathways in the internship program:
- Research
- Clinical/Quality
- Education
- Administration
- Other (proposed by mentors)
The internship is full-time and offers two options: a 6-week program or a 10-week program from June 2nd through August 8th, 2025. Students can apply for up to two programs. The application process for the student will include their resume and any additional information (i.e. letter of recommendation) and those documents and the application will be shared with the program leads.
A modest stipend ($750 for 6 weeks, $1,500 for 10 weeks) will be offered at the completion of the internship.
The Department of Pediatrics will sponsor the stipend for only one student per program. To support equity among our summer volunteers, we encourage mentors to fund the same level of stipend for all their summer volunteers to support basic expenses (i.e., food, transportation) via program discretionary funds.
Thank you for your interest in participating in the Pediatrics Summer Internship Program.