Brian Ramirez, a junior student at Hill Regional Career High School in New Haven, CT, completed his Careers in Health Information, Librarianship, and Informaticsinternship at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library of Yale University. Brian chronicled his experience in the Yale CHILI Blog. A second Career High student is scheduled to begin a CHILI internship at the end of March.
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Deadline: March 1, 2009
In order to increase diversity in professions related to museums and the visual arts, the Getty Institute ( http://www.getty.edu/ ) is offering summer internships at the Getty Center and the Getty Villa to undergraduates from culturally diverse backgrounds. Internships provide training and work experience in areas such as conservation, library collections, publications, museum education, curatorship, grants administration, public programs, site operations, and information technology. http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15016664/getty
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Image: Multicultural undergraduate intern Gabriella Rodriguez at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo: Robert Pacheco
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Not Your Grandmother's regular bowl of chili, not the country of Chile but Careers in Health Information, Librarianship, and Informatics (CHILI.) Informatics and Librarianship are professions in health sciences that have been overlooked and are unexposed. Our goal is to open the fields of librarianship and bioinformatics to community partners through activities and interactions with middle and high school students.
What's the link between biomedical informatics and good health? What training is required to work in the field of biomedical informatics? Are there jobs for librarians in foreign countries? What graduate degree is required to work as a health sciences librarian? Interested students learned the answer to these and other questions at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis during a Biomedical Informatics & Librarianship Symposium held on Friday, February 6, 2009.
Over 70 middle and high school students attended the symposium. Teachers, relatives, a school board administrator, UTHSC administrators, faculty, and staff joined them. One of the highlights of the symposium was the presentation by Jasmine Bagay, a student in the Information Sciences Masters program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Jasmine’s presentation was captivating for the students for many reasons, but mainly because Jasmine wasn’t even in the room; she was almost 2000 miles away in San Diego, California. Using technology that many librarians use every day, Jasmine connected to the symposium via video chat, allowing her and the students to see and hear each other, all from the comfort of Jasmine’s home. Another highlight of the symposium was the lunchtime interaction between students and UTHSC Table Captains. The Table Captains included faculty members from each discipline on our health science campus including Assistant Deans, Vice Chancellors, dentists, nurses, and pharmacists. All were available to answer questions, share educational and other experiences, and provide contact information to follow-up with students on their individual interests.
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A Digital Supplement to American Libraries Journal has just been issued, entitled Defining Today's Librarian- A Matter of Degree. In this supplement are resources to advance a library career. This is also very browsable, using a technology called zmags. Check it out.[ add comment ] | permalink | related link
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On November 1st, the 2008 AAMC Annual Meeting hosted the 2008 Health Sciences Minority Career Fair. Hundreds of local San Antonio high school and college students paraded through the exhibit hall. Charlie Greenberg represented the CHILI partnership and gave away many copies of pamphlets describing informatics and medical library careers.
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