Summer 2025 Undergraduate Intern - Project Coordinator - Administration and Quality

Experience Mission-Driven Care

NewYork-Presbyterian is one of the nation’s most comprehensive academic health care delivery systems, dedicated to providing the highest quality, most compassionate care to patients in the New York metropolitan area and throughout the globe. In collaboration with two renowned medical schools, Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, NewYork-Presbyterian is consistently recognized as a leader in medical education, ground-breaking research, and innovative, patient-centered clinical care.

Summer 2025 Undergraduate Intern - Project Coordinator - Administration and Quality

At NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens, we are on a mission to mentor the health care leaders of tomorrow. This highly selective paid summer internship program is designed to give current undergraduate Juniors/rising Seniors (Class of 12/2025 and 05/2026) exposure to some of the most crucial operational departments of the hospital. This internship is designed to be both educational and practical.  You will work under close supervision of existing staff and will be provided with learning opportunities throughout the internship. This internship does not entitle you to a job at its conclusion. NewYork-Presbyterian/Queens will be offering 8-week summer internship positions from June 2nd through July 25th. We have three internship opportunities within the following departments:

• Administration (2 positions)
• Quality (1 position)

The goal of these Interns is to provide opportunities to experience one or more aspects of healthcare administration and obtain basic skills and knowledge that contributes to effective healthcare administration.

Responsibilities:

Involvement in a variety of projects, including the following:

• Learn about leadership and management in the healthcare environment, by working side by side with one or more key executive leaders with the organization.
• Involvement in an administrative project, such as collection and presentation of data sets, or participation of public reporting initiatives.
• Areas of focus may include one or more of the following: finance, compliance, population health, business intelligence, public reporting, operations, or clinical areas
• Presentation at completion of internship highlighting knowledge gained and lessons learned.

Location:

On-site in Flushing, Queens, NY.

Preferred Criteria:

• Undergraduate students from the Class of 12/2025 or 05/2026
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite of products, email and internet
• Customer service, organization, problem solving, time and task management skills
• Must be a team player, willing and able to work with a variety of colleagues

Required Criteria:

• Ability to prepare documents and reports on a timely basis; well organized and able to prioritize; excellent communication skills.
• Must be able to identify problems and utilize analytics to determine trends and root causes; must be able to recommend and communicate solutions.
• Required to take clear direction and carry out directives from leadership as assigned; some level of independence required to communicate back to key staff and present reports and information accordingly

Timeline:

• Applications must be submitted by Monday, December 2nd, 2024
• Talent Acquisition will review applications and follow up with selected candidates for recorded interviews in December
• Virtual Interviews with hiring managers will take place in January
• Selected candidates to be notified by February 3rd, 2025