We recently welcomed a group of 22 Gap Year Interns to the Grace Family. These amazing college graduates are future physicians, PAs, pharmacists and other health-related professionals who will spend the next year in an immersive, clinical internship at Grace.
They will participate in all aspects of patient care working alongside our staff and community specialists to care for the uninsured. Hands-on experience coordinating medications, assisting providers as medical scribes, and managing follow-up patient care will provide invaluable service to Grace while simultaneously giving them clinical experience that may well influence their future medical path. Not only will they get to witness Grace’s mission in action on the medical side of things, they will also gain a vast understanding that Grace is more than medicine. Caring for our patients’ spiritual, mental, dental and social services needs will illustrate how they can become patient advocates in their future practices.
When asked in a pre-program survey, Chelsea Han, University of Florida grad with a BA in English on the Pre-PA track, responded that she is “super excited for the Lunch & Learns, but also just getting to know my family interns, Grace Staff, and other volunteers who help make fulfilling Grace's mission possible! I have truly never met so many amazing people in the span of 7 hours like I did during Orientation and I think that part made me most excited to have this opportunity to intern with Grace. Additionally, hearing patient stories of how lives have been changed at Grace made me excited to be a small part in fulfilling the mission of Grace as an intern.”
We also gratefully acknowledge and thank the VoLo Foundation for sponsoring our Gap Year Intern program, enabling us to provide invaluable clinical experience to these amazing future healthcare providers.
