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Summer Internship
Consumer Health Information Corporation
This
summer internship is designed for pharmacy students who are
keenly interested in the development of patient education
programs/consumer education (including DTC programs) and publishing.
The intern will be involved in the preparation of a wide variety
of patient education publications (Patient Package Inserts
that must be approved by FDA, pamphlets, newsletters, patient
videos, Direct-to-Consumer educational materials, etc.) that
will be distributed nationally to patients by physicians and
pharmacists.
The
summer intern will be involved in the day-to-day activities
of the company and receive training in a wide variety of areas.
These include:
1. Drug
Information
The intern will assist in the retrieval
of clinical research articles that are used in the preparation
of patient education programs and updating of clinical reference
sources. The intern will receive experience in evaluating
these articles to determine whether they are appropriate
references for the program being developed. Experience in
drug information retrieval on the Internet will also be
provided.
2. Patient
Counseling Techniques
The intern will learn how to translate
complicated medical terminology into language that the average
patient/consumer can understand. The patient compliance
problems that can be expected to occur in the specific program
audience will be addressed and the intern will learn the
importance of behavioral psychology and counseling techniques
in the development of patient education programs. Depending
on the activities of the company, the intern will learn
the issues that must be addressed in the development of
written medication instructions that are clinically accurate,
motivate patients and meet the marketing and legal requirements
of the client.
3. Application
of Knowledge to Pharmaceutical Care
The intern will learn how pharmacology,
pharmacokinetics, patient compliance, clinical therapeutics,
etc. are applied during the development of pharmaceutical
care programs. The intern will learn how to evaluate a patient
education program for readability, design, practicality
of information, etc. The goal is to develop programs that
will help patients understand how to take their medications
correctly and help them incorporate the medication regimen
into their management of the disease.
4. Project
Management
The intern will assist the team in
the various stages of program development from concept to
design to printing.
5. Marketing
and Business Administration
Students will be involved in updating
the corporate marketing database. They will also become
familiar with various pharmaceutical industry publications
and how to keep up-to-date with new products in the pharmaceutical
industry and FDA regulations.
Successful applicants
will have word-processing experience (Word/WordPerfect) and
excellent spelling and grammar. The internship is a twelve-week
program in McLean, Virginia (suburbs of Washington, D.C.).
Please send resume, transcript of marks, and letter outlining
interest areas in patient education to:
Dorothy
L. Smith, Pharm.D.
Consumer Health Information Corporation
8300 Greensboro Drive, Suite 1220
McLean, VA 22102
Phone: 703-734-0650 Fax:
703-734-1459
Email: chic@consumer-health.com
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