Structure
Students begin the 16-month program in the Fall semester and are enrolled concurrently in graduate courses and the Internship. Interns complete a ~6-week orientation at the beginning of the Fall semester and transition to supervised practice after orientation is complete. Supervised practice experiences continue through Spring and Summer and are completed near the end of the Summer. Graduate coursework continues throughout and into an additional Fall semester to finish the Master’s degree.
In supervised practice experiences, interns receive one-on-one instruction with experienced preceptors. Affiliated facilities providing the major supervised practice experiences are located in the greater Houston metropolitan area within 60 miles of the TWU-Houston campus. The DI Director schedules the supervised practice rotations at sites with which the university has formalized affiliation agreements. Note that availability of sites can vary from year to year. Interns also have an elective rotation where they are encouraged to select an experience that reflects their area of interest and career goals as well as a staffing opportunity to return to a site of previous experience for extended growth and learning. In some specialty rotations, preceptors without large office space may have students complete some of the rotation projects from home with frequent contact via phone, video conference, or email. If any virtual/remote rotations are offered, they will compose less than 15% of the 1100 required internship hours.
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