<p>Can anyone give me advice on how to find an internship during the school year for a high school senior like me preferably in the medical field?</p>
<p>I have been searching on the internet for awhile but i havent found anything yet.</p>
<p>The only people I ever knew with this kind of internship were well-connected to doctors, professors, etc.</p>
<p>Oh 
Well can anyone give advice on how to get an internship in general?</p>
<p>This is not what you want to hear (I was in your position when I was a senior, so I know!), but you are not doing yourself a service by attempting to find an “internship” as a high school student. A true internship is designed to give you a taste for how a job works; it should give you experience that you can bring with you to another job in the same industry; it should eliminate the need to train you from scratch when you begin a full time job.</p>
<p>This is why most internships are reserved for juniors in college: companies hire interns as an extended interview process - if you do well, you are given an offer, and the company benefits because it doesn’t need to waste as much time training you.</p>
<p>If you are a high school senior looking for an internship, you are probably going to college. This means that you offer very little value to any companies as an intern. There is the near certainty that the company will get little to no return on its investment in you; you have all of the upside potential in an internship. Because businesses don’t just do things to be nice (not the best business plan), you will rarely find a true internship for a high school senior.</p>
<p>What you WILL find are many jobs that are disguised as internships so that they will attract ambitious candidates, like yourself. If you are offered an “internship” at a company, the odds are that you will be filing paperwork or doing basic data entry. It will look no better on a college application than any other high school job because admissions officers are generally intelligent enough to recognize that “Clerical Assistant” and “Clerical Intern” mean the exact same thing.</p>
<p>If you limit your search to “internships,” you are missing out on a lot of excellent opportunities. And, more than likely, an internship that you would get would probably just be a way for a company to get labor without paying for it, since I’d doubt that they would offer payment to their interns if they are hiring high school students.</p>
<p>You are interested in medicine. That’s great! However, you need to know what you can actually do. For example, you can’t work with patients in a doctor’s office because you have no formal training. You can, however, work at a retirement home, helping to serve food to the residents. You can also do clerical work at a doctor’s office - if they have files that they need to digitize, you’re a great fit for it. If you are near any universities, you might be able to find a job as a research assistant - without training, you would not do very much, but you would get some exposure.</p>
<p>If I were you, I would look for all sorts of different jobs. They don’t need to have anything to do with what you plan for your life (I didn’t ever do an internship… like literally never ever… and I am working at a full time job that I like and that pays the bills).</p>