The Summer Intern NIH

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• May 30, 2014
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The NIH Summer Internship Program (SIP) provides you with a full-time biomedical research experience.  It is our hope that many of you will decide to include research as an important component of your future career and we hope you will all leave with a deeper understanding of how scientific investigation works and what it entails.  Although research should be your first priority during your stay at the National Institutes of Health, we encourage you to find the time to participate in career development activities and reach out to the community around you.

Summer interns at the NIH include

• high school students who are at least 16 years of age,
• college students and individuals who will be starting college in the fall,
• graduate students (that is, individuals working towards a PhD or master’s degree), and
• professional school (medical, dental, pharmacy, etc) students.

Altogether, the NIH is home to about 1200 interns each summer, all of whom are U.S. citizens or permanent residents.