Dialysis Clinic, Inc., offers an organ transplantation summer internship for pre-medical students. Over the last 20 years, the program has expanded to 20 cities across the United States, giving more than 200 students the opportunity to expand their medical knowledge.
Summer Internship
With experiences designed to help students decide whether to pursue a medical career, DCI’s summer internship exposes students to hospital and outpatient environments, as well as surgery and clinical research. Medical interns will shadow physicians on hospital rounds, observing and assisting in an outpatient/clinic facility, and observe transplant coordination. Participants may also collect transplant service data or work on a clinical research project.
DCI strongly prefers college juniors with a serious interest in medicine. Stipends and housing are provided for all interns, as well as roundtrip travel to the hosting transplant center.
The 2025 summer internship begins Tuesday, June 3, with an orientation in Nashville, Tenn., and ends Friday, July 25. Participating transplant centers include Austin and Houston, Texas; Baton Rouge, La.; Atlanta, Ga.; and Chattanooga, Memphis, and Nashville, Tenn.
In addition to the medical focus, all interns will also participate as counselors for Camp Okawehna, a weeklong camp for dialyzing and post-kidney transplant children. The camp, held June 7 to 13 and located just outside of Nashville, Tenn., follows orientation week. Each intern’s role is essential to the function of Camp O, and many interns have said that the week at camp was their favorite and most memorable part of their DCI summer internship.
Please send any internship questions to Jaimee.Lockwood@dciinc.org.