MDI Hospital-COA Internship Program

Expanding Education Through Collaboration.

The 10-week Mount Desert Island Hospital-COA Internship program was established in 2013 through a cooperative partnership between the college and the hospital led by Edward Gilmore, MD, MACP, Chief of Medicine at MDI Hospital, and John G.T. Anderson, W.H. Drury Professor of Ecology/Natural History and internship program coordinator at COA.

The program allows students the chance to directly shadow and observe physicians and nurse practitioners across a variety of specialties, and to experience the clinical environment first-hand.

Dr. Gilmore and Professor Anderson worked together to design the 10-week program, which consists of five two-week preceptorships, offering second and third-year students at COA broad exposure to a variety of aspects of healthcare delivery.

During the 10-week program, students are exposed to a variety of care situations and have the chance to discuss what they observe. Three of the two-week modules are fixed, while the last two are elective. The fixed modules of the program include primary care, rounds with a hospitalist and emergency care, while electives may include medical imaging, orthopedics, and obstetrics.