Health Sciences Internships & Careers

Internships

All Marymount Health Sciences majors complete an internship in the senior year. These represent some of the sites where Marymount students have interned:

Health Promotion and Public Health

  • Washington Sports and Entertainment, the Washington Mystics
  • Total Health Concepts, Falls Church, VA
  • Corporate Fitness Works, Gaithersburg, MD
  • Sport & Health, Inc.
  • Army-Navy Country Club fitness program, Arlington, VA
  • SOPHE
  • APHA
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • American Diabetes Association
  • YMCA

Physical Therapy/Sports Medicine

  • Virginia Sportsmedicine Institute
  • Inova Health System Physical Therapy
  • Alexandria Hospital Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
  • Kernan Hospital, Baltimore

Careers

This major can prepare you for a job as a

  • health education specialist in the following settings: hospital/healthcare, government, community agency, university, or at a work site
  • health communications specialist
  • exercise physiologist in many settings: corporate, private, community, hospital, government
  • cardiac rehabilitation specialist
  • health and fitness director

Marymount’s Center for Career Development can help you prepare for your internship and job search, polish your résumé, and practice your interviewing skills.