HSM - 550B HSM Internship

The HSM internship requires a minimum of 440 hours of real world work experience in a health care organization. HSM fulltime students will almost always fulfill this requirement through part-time jobs within Rush University Medical Center or its affiliates during their first year in the program; however, fulltime students do have the option of fulfilling the requirement through a more traditional summer internship that they identify and secure. The internship emphasizes the 10 distinguishing competencies contained within the full set of 26 competencies for the National Center for Healthcare Leadership; these include: accountability, achievement orientation, leadership, collaboration, communication skills, professionalism, project management, and self-confidence. Demonstration of behavior consistent with the Rush ICARE values is also expected. During first quarter, data management sessions will building upon basic and intermediate excel and access knowledge, data management skills are further strengthened to handle real world data challenges (i.e., domain and data understanding, data cleaning, data transformation, output generation, and creating reports and dashboards) to facilitate decision making. Credit Hours: (3)