Medical Social Work Internship. The program provides students the opportunity to learn medical social work from highly-skilled clinicians. The Social Work Department of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta strongly supports the education of future social work professionals.
The student internship placements span many of the inpatient and outpatient service areas including: HealthCare. You will acquire skills to work with people of different ages, ethnicities, education levels, and socioeconomic statuses at social work internships abroad. Nearly all medical social work careers require a Master's in Social Work with a clinical focus.
The Social Work Intern Program Coordinator is the primary liaison for schools of social work who place master's-candidate and/or bachelor of social work-candidate interns with social work field instructors (supervisors) in the VAMCs and community clinics.
Provided crisis intervention and counseling to clients and their families dealing with medical emergencies.
All field instructors are Licensed Independent Clinical Social Workers (LICSW) with years of experience and expertise in a variety of clinical settings. You will work with patients and their families from all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds and by the end your internship, you will feel pretty. Internships provide eligible college students with unpaid practical hands-on work experience in a professional health care setting in order to enhance learning.