These positions may be filled by students pursuing degrees in such disciplines as medical doctor, pharmacy or nursing.
Students are responsible for their own travel expenses and housing arrangements.
AHRQ supports, conducts, and disseminates research that improves access to care and the outcomes, quality, cost and utilization of health care services. The research sponsored and conducted by AHRQ provides better information that enables better decisions about health care. AHRQ is the Administration's lead agency on health care quality and is coordinating the Department of Health and Human Services' activities on improving health care quality and reducing medical errors. The AHRQ Summer Internship Program is intended to provide students an opportunity to work in an environment with some of the leading researchers in the health services research community. The support of extramural research.