Internship Program Selection Criteria
- Applicants must be current UCF full-time students, having at least 24 units of academic credit of prior enrollment at this institution. Transfer students must have at least 12 hours of academic credit.
- Applicants need to ensure that time conflicts between their academic and internship schedules will not occur at any time. It is best to have FULL DAYS open and available for shadowing. However, an open schedule with as many ~5 hour blocks as possible is acceptable. Students with busy schedules and multiple classes everyday can be difficult to match with doctors. Consider applying for semesters when you are taking some online classes or have few lab/discussion sections.
- Applicants must have access to appropriate means of transportation to and from the internship sites. Students willing to commute away from the UCF area are preferred, as it helps when matching with doctors.
- Applicants need to have met the required GPA for a given program at the time of application. Slight deviations from this requirement will be discussed by the committee.
Priority consideration for applicant selection is as follows (highest priority first):
- Students beginning their “Application Year” (typically in your Junior year), with limited prior exposure to clinical medicine or research, depending on the internship to which one is applying. For example, students with limited experience in shadowing but with extensive experience in other areas (e.g. leadership, research, volunteering) would be most competitive for the Private Practice Clinical Internship. In other words, to be MOST competitive, one would have limited experience in the area of the internship one is applying to but has shown dedication to medicine in other respects.
- Fall semester Seniors with limited prior exposure to medicine/research, who are already in the application process.
- Sophomores and graduating Seniors.
- Freshman students are discouraged from applying in order to concentrate on developing their academic foundation.
- Applicants with extensive experience in clinical medicine and research (depending on which internship one is applying to) have the lowest priority. If the level of experience applies only to one or the other above, the student may apply to the remaining appropriate programs, with the same corresponding degree of priority consideration as above. For example, a student who has already shadowed physicians or participated in the Private Practice Clinical Internship would still be eligible for the Surgical or Clinical Research Internships.