HHPR Internship

Why? Capstone Experience Recommended or Required for Professional

Schools Institutional Credit Portfolio Piece that is Inspired by YOU!

1) Find an Agency

Match professional goals

Treat as a job interview Best in-person Provide resume Agency sheet Sample MOA

Get verbal or written confirmation of acceptance

The Tricky Part

Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) Affiliation agreement Contract between Baylor & agency Legally covers you, Baylor, & your agency Need 2 signed originals Takes time!!

Additional Issues International Colorado Hospitals

Bottom Line

You cannot register for your internship until we have a fully executed MOA with your agency.

Cover the bases in your interview Will they sign the MOA? The MOA is time sensitive

2)Get Department Approval by Emailing Your Program Director

(Cc: Kim_Smith2@baylor.edu)

Subject: Spring 2013 Agency Information

Email needs to include: Your ID Your Major and Concentration (especially for Health Science Studies) Reason for selecting your agency Agency Name Supervisor (specify credentials) Legal Contact (if different from supervisor & specify credentials) Address Phone Fax Email

Program Directors

Community Health Dr. Beth Lanning Beth_Lanning@baylor.edu 254-710-4027

Exercise Physiology Dr. Deborah Johnston Deborah_Johnston@baylor.edu 254-710-4020

Health Science Studies Dr. Barbalee Symm Barbalee_Symm@baylor.edu 254-710-4594

Dance Minor Dr. Margaret Wooddy Margaret_Wooddy@baylor.edu 254-710-4033

Kimberly Smith, Intern Coordinator: Kim_Smith2@baylor.edu

254-710-4813

Please Verify

Agency Name Official Legal Name of the Entity

i.e. Hillcrest should be Hillcrest Hospital or Hillcrest Hewitt Clinic, etc.

Legal Contact Who should we send the MOA to? Include credentials

i.e. administrative assistant or legal representative, etc.

Review both with agency before sending information to me

Deadline

Tuesday, March 5

3) Wait Patiently

I contact the Office of General Counsel on your behalf

Create MOA

Provost approval

2 copies mailed

Agency signs both & returns one to Baylor

OGC marks as “Fully Executed”

4) Follow- up

You will communicate with the agency for status updates… When the MOA is sent 2 weeks to ensure receipt of MOA Every week for updates until it is signed and sent

Let agency know you will be contacting them

5) Permit

I will give you a permit to register

Faculty are generally assigned to sections after permits issued

HP 4V79 & HED 4V80

V=Variable

V= 3 = 150 clock hours V= 4 = 200 clock hours V= 6 = 300 clock hours

Internship Hours

6) Register

Your responsibility to register

Change the variable hour

You will not graduate if you don’t register for the appropriate number of hours!

7) Contact Faculty

Your professor/university coordinator is responsible for: Project approval Assignments Evaluation Overall grade

Communicate! Communicate! Communicate!

Communication!!!

Email will be via Baylor email

Phone numbers on data sheet

Student check in Weekly check in to let us know

how your experience is progressing.

Take control of your experience!

Pre-semester on-site visit/orientation

An on-site visit prepares one to be ready to work the first day… Apparel – dress professionally Tasks TAKE INITIATIVE Act professionally, no absences or being late! Reflection of Baylor University and the profession

Assignment Due Dates

Must check and use your manual

Notification of start and end date – Information Sheet - ASAP

Notify faculty if you have problems Timely contacts Hours – vacation pre planning Goals and Objectives Supervisor Evaluations Projects

Handouts

CPR & First Aid

Turn in information sheets

Let’s look at the the Manual!

Goals and Objectives First draft - Due one week before you start

Final goals and objectives – due 10 days after start

Consult with agency supervisor (5-10 goals) One goal

Three to five objectives

Report your ability to achieve your goals and objectives in final presentation

Agency Report

History

Mission Statement

Funding & Budget

Salary & Fees

Personnel & Responsibilities

Avoid Plagiarism!

Critique for Future Interns

Succinct Reflection of the experience

Ideas that will help other interns

Suggestions as to how future interns could enhance his/her experience

Journal

This should be a daily summary of your activities, what you learned, and your responsibilities. This must be typed. Questions and answers to those questions Terminology – what did you learn

Record your total hours & cumulative hours with each entry

Site Supervisors must initial hour log each week

Project

Project proposal MUST be approved by the university supervisor BEFORE the intern starts on the project.

The project proposal is due ~10 working days after the intern begins the internship.

Benefit to the agency/benefit to intern – Significant enough for 200 pts.

Portfolio Piece

Oral Presentation

20 minute Intern presentation

Well organized and Practiced

Content (See Student Guidelines Handbook)

Question and answer session by panel-10 Minutes

Total Presentation - 30 minutes

Responsibility of intern to secure panel members and to schedule the presentation – faculty will coordinate room

Notebook Due one week before Presentation

University Coordinator Evaluation

Timeliness of Evaluation Items Documents received late – result in points off evaluation grade

Accountability

Quality of All Materials - Typed

Communication

Evaluation check-in

Oral Presentation Evaluation

Course Evaluation Summary

Questions?