Applying for an Internship

Pitt Med Magazine and the Office of Strategic Communications, Health Sciences, are now accepting internship applications for Summer and Fall 2024. The application deadline is March 1, 2024.

Health Sciences Communications Internship openings for Summer and Fall 2024

Health Sciences Communications Internship openings for Summer and Fall 2024

Minimum 12 hours per week, unpaid (academic credit)

Application deadline: March 1

The Office of Strategic Communications, Health Sciences, announces our expanded internship program for the summer and fall academic terms of 2024. Each term, we will place one intern with Pitt Med Magazine and the other with the strategic communications writing team.

Both positions require excellent written communication skills. Health or medical writing experience is a plus, as is an enthusiasm for scientific research and the ability to express it in plain language.

Your internship will include training on our social media platform, Sprout Social, and if your schedule permits, you may participate in some department-wide strategy sessions.

Pitt Med Magazine 

Pitt Med Magazine is an award-winning, 24,000-circulation magazine published quarterly by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Our readers are alumni and physicians, scientists and community members, potential donors, deans and residency directors at the top medical research centers, other national leaders in medicine and people who are just curious about science and health. Our job is to tell the most interesting stories of the School of Medicine, to cut through medical jargon to the core of a scientific discovery, to dig for the personality of a top researcher.

As a Pitt Med intern, you will interview physicians, scientists and alumni. You will work with editors to shape your stories for publication. You also will participate in editorial and production planning meetings, write and schedule social media posts, and help with the details of the shaping of a magazine. In short, you will be a member of our staff.

Strategic Communications Team

This team handles various communications needs across the six schools of the health sciences: Dental, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Medical, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health.

These schools include many of Pitt’s most prestigious programs, and the writing must be as professional as the work it represents.

The range of our writing projects is broad. It can include content for websites, announcements, news stories, infographics, social media posts, videos and more. We’ll help you identify who the audience is for each piece, find the sources to interview and determine the right placement for the work.

Some work may also be included in various schools’ alumni magazines. You will have an opportunity to develop and polish your skills in journalism, social media, communications and marketing.

Please send a resume, up to three writing samples and your answers to the questions below to pitths@pitt.edu by March 1 with the subject line "Internship." 

Health Sciences Strategic Communications Internship Application

Name

Phone

Email

Year in school

Relevant writing experience

Any special skills you bring to the position?

Why are you interested in this internship?

What are you hoping to gain from this experience?

Preferred placement (Pitt Med Magazine, Strategic Communications or no preference)

Preferred term (summer, fall or no preference)