Activity Toolkit

Technical Skills Internship

NYACH Ready for Healthcare

Resources for employers, educators, and students participating in a technical skills internship program for high school students

What is a technical skills internship?

Through a technical skills internship, students practice patient care skills they’ve learned in the classroom directly with patients under the supervision of a qualified health professional.

This is a great way for employers to help students excel and become fully productive members of a care team and for students to get hands-on experience working directly in patient care.

Although many of the included materials are adaptable to different occupational paths, this segment of the toolkit is tailored to technical skills internships in Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) and Medical Assistant (MA) learning paths.

The Ready for Healthcare Technical Skills Internship Toolkit materials cover:

  • internship program basics and logistics

  • internship goal-planning and preparation

  • core competencies and technical skills for CNA and MA tracks

  • reflection, student self-assessment, and employer assessment of interns

  • next steps and takeaways

Download some or all of these resources in the following section.

Curricula, Tools & Materials

The Technical Skills Internship Activity Toolkit includes:

  • an employer guide outlining internship basics, criteria, preparation, best practices, and logistics

  • additional tools for employers hosting interns, including lists of core competencies and skills to be developed, assessment tools, and sample internship descriptions

  • tailored educator guides for the CNA and MA tracks, including learning objectives and plans for guided activities that students complete throughout the course of the internship

  • tailored student packets for the CNA and MA tracks

  • resources for educators / program coordinators conducting site visits to employers and progress check-ins with students

Each tool is available as an editable Microsoft Word .docx file. You can download all of the resources as a compressed .zip package or as individual files.

 

NYACH’s Ready for Healthcare initiative was funded as part of JPMorgan Chase’s New Skills for Youth initiative.