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Launch Your Health Career with HCC

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Health Career Connection (HCC) inspires and empowers undergraduate students, recent graduates and HCC alumni to successfully pursue health careers and connects them to health employers and graduate health professions schools seeking qualified, diverse candidates. For over 20 years HCC has assisted individuals to discover and achieve their health career goals, become effective health leaders and make a difference in health organizations and communities. HCC has also made substantial contributions to the priority goals of our partner organizations and to increasing diversity in the health professions.

Programs and Partners

HCC comprehensive summer internship program provides hands on exposure, experience and mentoring. HCC’s paid, full-time summer educational internships assist undergraduate students and recent graduates to pursue careers in healthcare management and policy, health education, community health, nursing administration, and other public health options. HCC partners with leading health organizations to offer meaningful internship experiences in 4 California Regions and in New England and New York/New Jersey (View our Regions). HCC also partners with leading graduate health professions schools to provide regional intern cohorts with workshops and information about how to best prepare and be competitive applicants for graduate education. HCC also provides paid, full-time Health Information Technology (HIT) Fellowships in California for recent graduates and individuals interested in pursuing hands on experience and careers in Health IT. HCC HIT Fellowships connect talented candidates to employers building their HIT workforce. The goal of the program is to help organizations achieve meaningful use of Electronic Health Records and contribute to California’s need for 10,000 additional HIT professionals over the next 5 years.

Impact

HCC and host organizations have empowered over a thousand interns to successfully pursue health careers. Over 95% of HCC interns report that the internship had a profound influence on their career and educational choices and opportunities. 90% of HCC interns have been from under-represented racial and ethnic groups. A significant number of HCC interns have gone on to graduate school and successful health careers. Over 60% of host organizations have hired their HCC interns. 95% of HCC host organizations repeat as intern sponsors, many host multiple interns.

HCC’s ultimate aim is to improve the health of our increasingly diverse communities by developing value driven health leaders and professionals capable of and committed to addressing our complex health challenges. We have a priority focus on inspiring future leaders and professionals to serve under-served communities and to reach back to support others behind them in the health professions pipeline.