The Rural Interprofessional Health Professions Summer Preceptorship is an immersion program for health professions students. It is a six-week, paid, full-time shadowing experience set in a rural Illinois community.

The program, organized by the National Center for Rural Health Professions, provides an opportunity for highly motivated students to learn in a real-world setting that promotes health professionals from different disciplines working together. It supports learning through active and organized participation in the community.

Participants will complete over 15 days of shadowing in over 10 different hospital departments and/or community clinics. They will collaborate with other participants students to complete project focusing on a real-life community health priority. And they will acquire a better understanding of rural health care needs as well as increased awareness of a variety of health professions disciplines.

Students of all health disciplines are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be Illinois residents who will have completed sophomore year of undergraduate studies by the start of the program.

Preference goes to students from rural Illinois communities with interest in serving a rural community in the future.

The 2023 dates and locations are:
May 22 – June 29 at KSB Hospital in Dixon
May 31 – July 12 at Gibson Area Hospital in Gibson City
June 7 – July 19 at Memorial Hospital in Chester

Applications will be accepted through Sunday, March 5, 2023.

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