Intership Opportunities
The Mielke Foundation has endowed the Program in Biomedical Ethics with funds for off-campus student internships. Program advisors develop and maintain contacts for students in a variety of aspects of biomedical ethics. Students may, for example, choose to work with clinical geneticists on the production of advanced directives for parents of terminally ill infants, or students may work in a laboratory doing pre-natal or infant genetic screening. Students often work with health care providers, insurers, or purchasing groups in the Fox Valley or other parts of Wisconsin. Topics might include how to ensure quality when contracting with a managed care organization, services provided to the uninsured – the character of the safety net, and the effects of competition among managed care organizations on costs and health outcomes. Often students use their experience in these internships as a base for their independent study work.
See information sheet on applying for a Mielke fellowships.