UCLA Health Undergraduate Student Summer Internship

The UCLA Health Undergraduate Summer Student Summer Internship program is an exciting 10 week summer program designed to provide exposure to professional careers in healthcare, obtain work experience and develop work habits and communication skills that can be helpful in shaping future career interests. You will participate in a variety of professional and learning experiences, including but not limited to:

Learn more about the internship and the application process by visiting: https://www.uclahealthcareers.org/internships-fellowships-2/#summerprog

Beyond contributions to individual projects and collaborating with the preceptor, you will also contribute to the Undergraduate Student Summer Intern cohort’s culture and sense of community through active participation, engagement, and fostering an inclusive and supportive environment.

Below, please find a list of all the available internships at UCLA Health including the Department Overview.

Executive Sponsor: Amy Kraft – Director, Real Estate | Planning, Design & Construction & Norm Lantz – Senior Director, General Services

Preceptor: Megan Van Ness – Administrative & Financial Manager

Overview:

The the undergraduate student summer intern will report to the Financial Manager of Real Estate | Planning, Design & Construction. Shadowing opportunities include rounding issues at UCLA Health owned properties (both hospitals and medical office buildings), assisting with furniture installations/moves, processing purchase orders/invoices, generating ad hoc reports, and developing weekly meeting agendas for the HCAI Compliance Officer. Potential projects include:

– Researching and collecting data on a Construction Project Management topic of interns choice

– Analyze findings and present to office with recommendations for process improvements or next steps

Executive Sponsor: Melissa Prado – Director, Office of Environmental Health & Safety

Preceptor: Takeru Shiroma – Administrative Manager

Overview:

The Office of Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) provides consultation and training services, develops and monitors safety programs and procedures and responds to health and safety service requests. In addition, the Office of Environmental Health & Safety ensures compliance with applicable federal, state and local health and safety and environmental regulations and standards. EH&S has oversight responsibility for fire and life safety, hazardous materials use and disposal, general safety and ergonomics, environmental compliance and supports Emergency Management, Utilities and Security related activities. Potential Projects include:

– Revamping of Hazardous Materials, Fire Safety, Injury Prevention and Respiratory Protection programs. This will consist of program development, policy revision, client engagement initiatives and related administrative work

– Participation in drills, trainings and shadowing all divisions and department administration

Executive Sponsor: Judy Fortin – Executive Director, Communications

Preceptor: Leo Smith – Managing Editor

Overview:

The UCLA Health Communications department promotes news and information from the UCLA Hospital System and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. The team of professional strategic communicators, media relations officers, issues managers, writers, editors, videographers, and photographers, is responsible for producing all internal and external communications. An undergraduate summer intern would have the following opportunities in the UCLA Health Communications department:

– Learn how to research, write, edit and promote original content related to health care and medical/science topics.

– Learn best practices for communicating with a large internal workforce (33,000 faculty and staff at UCLA Health) and a diverse external audience that includes patients, caregivers, donors, local and state government officials, and peers in academic medicine.

Executive Sponsor: Bill Lazarus – Chief Technology Office, UCLA Health IT

Preceptor: Cecille Gucayane – Endpoint Refresh Manager

Overview:

The Technical Service Delivery Endpoint Refresh team conducts refreshes of computers and printers at our Inpatient areas and Ambulatory clinics. This includes capturing current inventory of the areas, reviewing endpoints qualified for a refresh with managers and scheduling the refresh. Once refresh has been completed, the team will update our endpoint management system to ensure old endpoint is decommissioned and new endpoint is entered. The undergraduate student intern will also be exposed with providing updates on our metrics and dashboards, assisting our coordinators with documentation and communication, and can also assist with refreshes as needed.

Executive Sponsor: Albert Duntugan – Chief Data Office, UCLA Health

Preceptors: Tim Sanders – Data Governance Manager & Ghouse Mohammed – Data Architecture Manager & Muneeb Wani – Solutions Architecture and Engineering Manager

Overview:

The Office of Health Informatics and Analytics (OHIA) serves the data and analytics needs of UCLA Health across the Hospital, Faculty Practice Group and David Geffen School of Medicine. OHIA’s offerings include clinical, financial and quality reporting and analytics, on-demand reporting, self-service reporting, advanced analytics through Big Data solutions and platforms, data extracts, data governance, data integration, data management, data architecture, application integration, and web service integration.

– Implementing Value Set Synchronization Between EME and CareConnect

– Collibra Upgrade

– Distributed Analytics Team Collibra Engagement

– Implementing De-Identified Clinical Notes & De-Identified OMOP Database

– ULEAD Enhancements

– High Performance Computing Enhancements

Executive Sponsor: Aaron Magpali – Director, Customer Service Delivery

Preceptor: Arif Gheewala – Project Manager

Overview:

The UCLA Health IT Mobile Device Team manages mobile devices and users for the Enterprise, which includes Hospital, DGSOM, FPG and Campus using UCLA’s MDM Software, troubleshooting mobile devices associated to hardware and MDM software, procuring and managing mobile devices for the enterprise, and supporting various device platforms, such as, but not limited to iOS, Android and Windows. We at the Mobile Device Team handle many high profile projects like upgrading iPhones, swapping out physical pagers with paging apps on iPhones as well as providing iPhones to the incoming House Staff/Residents/Attendings.

Executive Sponsor: Richard Azar – Chief Operating Officer, UCLA Health

Preceptor: Monica Singh – Director of Service Excellence

Overview:

The CICARE Service Excellence Department oversees and reinforces the practice of CICARE and recognition across the health system. Projects include the CICARE Refresh, supporting CICARE rounds (patient and staff rounds), and planning recognition activities. The undergraduate student intern would assist with SWOT Recognitions, CICARE Round recognitions, distribution of recognition gifts such as logo merchandise and Dodger tickets, assist with e-thank you card program and positive comment report. The intern can support program managers in the department with Health Center Week planning and activities. The intern will also be needed to support data entry for new customer relations management department tool.

Executive Sponsor: David Fraquelli – Director of Business Operations, UCLA Health

Preceptor: Laona LeBeouf – Organizational Effective Lead

Overview:

UCLA Health IT Business Operations team consists of four areas: Acquisitions and Logistics, Finance, People Operations, and Space Planning. We are a professional, customer-focused group dedicated to providing support for all UCLA Health. Our goal is to remove administrative burdens and obstacles and promote best practices and create solutions for all our clients and partners. General activities include research, inputting, tracking and centralizing data and information, admin support, business writing, process improvement, serving as student intern liaison. Potential projects include:

– Supporting the HR and Logistics Team with tracking UHIT open positions posted on the UCLA Health Careers website, correlated administrative support, excel data input, and process improvement. This includes HR metrics and building out business requirements.

– Supporting the Employee Experience team with research, writing, business analysis, administrative support and tasks related to serving as the student intern liaison which includes providing support to high school summer programs

Executive Sponsor: Hector Anguiano – Director, Systems Architecture & Engineering

Preceptor: Hai Tran – Sr. Manager, Hybrid IT Systems Management

Overview:

The Information Services & Solutions (ISS) Virtualization Platform Services provide technical support for various hypervisors such as ESX VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V and hosting hardware platforms such as HP, CISCO UCS, Nutanix, and IBM x86 to support the UCLA EPIC Electronic Medical Record system and Enterprise services. We plan, design, and build infrastructure solutions of medium to high complexity to meet the requirements given by the stakeholders to ensure security, stability, and business continuity. Currently, we are hosting over 5000 VMs in our environment, which consists of Windows and Linux servers. The intern will have an opportunity to learn hosting technologies, VMware, MS Hyper-V, and clouds. Hardware platform:

– Hyper-converged hardware platform – Nutanix

– Converged hardware platform – Cisco UCS

 

Salary Range: $16.25-$45.00 Hourly

As part of the online application, please upload and submit the following two (2) items:

1) Current resume including undergraduate program name

2) One page cover letter addressing the following items:

– Why you are interested in pursuing an internship with UCLA Health System

– Top three goals for your summer internship, including areas of specific interest