More than 300 Clinical Affiliations
For the School of Health and Medical Sciences (SHMS), patient needs are more than a mere focus — they are the centerpiece of the School’s five entry-level professional programs.
Hands-on learning usually begins in the first semester of your coursework, which allows you early on to integrate your classroom knowledge with clinical learning in varied working environments. We are proud to offer our students clinical experiences in more than 300 facilities throughout New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area and out of state. Such valuable affiliations allow you to work one-on-one in a professional setting alongside a licensed practitioner or clinical instructor, putting your classroom knowledge to the test.
Our clinical experiences run the gamut and include such sites as:
While the School’s prime location allows exposure to challenging practice settings, it also allows for a rich experience in rural, suburban and urban areas as well as with culturally diverse and under-served clinical populations. Patients in urban and under-served areas are at a potentially higher illness level as a result of poor and/or unavailable health care. This sad fact opens our students’ eyes to the breadth of the illness model and its associated care, and challenges them to find a way to offer care and assistance through service learning projects. As a student, you’ll give back to the local community, offering healthcare services to those in desperate need. For the past two years, speech-language pathology graduate students have provided speech, language and hearing screenings; referral; and enrichment and intervention to more than 100 preschool children in the Irvington Public School system, through a $76,000 grant from the Healthcare Foundation of New Jersey. Plans call for the School to offer additional clinical services to those less fortunate in the coming years.
What’s great about the School of Health and Medical Sciences and our faculty is that we’re not content to rest on our laurels. Faculty and administrators in the School are continuously looking to add facilities to the current listing of clinical sites. The School hopes to broaden its horizons through an international expansion as well. Faculty and administrators are beginning to develop academic, research and clinical collaborations with universities across the globe with the hopes of offering future continuing education and global clinical opportunities.
Learn more about what the School of Health and Medical Sciences has to offer you.
