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Student Internships


Student interns are integral to MLP | Boston’s capacity to meet the increasing demand for medical-legal partnership services. We recruit interns from a variety of academic backgrounds, ranging from undergraduate students exploring public interest career options, to graduate, public health, law and medical students.

As varied as their backgrounds are, successful MLP | Boston interns have one quality in common: a sincere and serious commitment to enhancing the health well-being of vulnerable populations in an interdisciplinary manner.

We accept approximately four to six (4-6) interns per semester (summer, fall and spring), and with limited exceptions do not offer any paid internship positions.

Responsibilities include:
  • Provide administrative assistance to program staff
  • Under the supervision of staff attorneys, act as the primary MLP | Boston contact for clients
  • Handle client follow-up, factual investigation, legal research and various other advocacy tasks
  • Conduct research and writing projects related to systemic advocacy efforts
  • Assist in development of training materials
Supervision Received: MLP | Boston provides one-on-one weekly supervision

Qualifications:
  • Ability to work independently while exercising sensible judgment about seeking guidance as needed
  • Clear communication skills, written and oral
  • Solid interpersonal skills; ability to build cross-cultural rapport with clients, stakeholders and others
  • Facility with database entry, word processing in Microsoft Word, Excel and Access skills appreciated
  • Bilingual skills highly valued

Hours: 16 hours per week minimum

Term: Semester commitment is a minimum

Application Deadlines:
Summer semester (June to mid August): apply by January 1
Fall semester (September to mid December): apply by June 15
Spring semester (January to mid May): apply by October 15

Application materials:
  • Cover letter
  • Resume
  • Writing sample
  • Contact information for three (3) academic and/or professional references
Contact:  Email application materials to Samuel Senft, Esq. at samuel.senft@bmc.org.