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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute affiliation agreements and any necessary amendments thereto, with the entities listed below for student field placement, internship and preceptorship with the City. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
Institutions of higher learning and hospitals regularly contact the Department of Health and Human Services to request field placement of their students or residents-in-training. The placements range from undergraduate students seeking experience working in public affairs, administration, public health, and social work, to nursing students and residents-in-training seeking to engage in a clinical rotation at the Department of Health and Human Services (Health Department).
The following institutions have requested to enter into an affiliation agreement with the City to allow their students and residents-in-training to intern or be placed with the Health Department to expand and gain first hand knowledge of working in the public health setting. This program is beneficial to the City in that the students, while on rotation, learn about the role and function of the Health Department, and the importance of public health in the community. The students and residents-in-training provide enhanced clinical and program capacity during the term of their rotation at the Health Department. These programs also serve as sites for the Health Department to recruit future public health professionals. The entities requesting affiliation agreements include:
· California State University Dominguez Hills
· California State University Fullerton
· California State University Los Angeles
· California State University Long Beach
· California State University Northridge
· Loma Linda University
· Long Beach City College
· Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
· Pacific Hospital, Long Beach
· University of California, Irvine
· University of California, Los Angeles
· University of Southern California
This matter was reviewed by Deput...
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