SCHEDULING OF INTERNS

POLICY:  Interns are responsible for arranging their schedules and reporting rotation hours to the Internship Director.

1. Interns will be responsible for arranging their schedules with individual preceptors, based on the needs of the individual intern and the scheduling needs and abilities of the facility.
   

2. Schedules will be discussed with the Internship Staff, as needed, prior to the beginning of each rotation to assure appropriateness of hours.  Every effort will be made to accommodate the intern’s individual scheduling needs as long as these needs do not interfere with the quality of the learning experiences and the needs of the facility.  If a unique learning opportunity arises during a rotation, the intern will be allowed to interrupt the current rotation to participate in the opportunity  if the intern obtains prior approval from the preceptor and Internship Director.  Hours in the rotation must be resumed as soon as possible and total required hours for that rotation must be completed. 
   

3. Intern schedules will be submitted by Saturday of each week:

a.  The Intern will go to the Google Docs Site and click on the appropriate file

b.  The total number of hours completed in each rotation (Column C) along with total required hours (Column B) will be listed. 

c.   Intern will record the total hours completed in any rotation during the previous week on his/her individual sheet.  Intern will click on the tab at the bottom of the page to access the appropriate sheet and record hours under the appropriate date.  

4. Both the Intern and Internship faculty will have access the hours entered by each intern.

5. The Internship Staff will check with site preceptors, as appropriate, to assure accuracy of hours.

6. All required hours in each rotation must be completed prior to graduation from the program. 

      7.    Intern log sheets of reported hours will be kept on file on the Internship Director’s computer.