Student Handbook
Interview and Selection Process

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About one semester before you are ready to be assigned to a clinical site, you will be asked to interview at one or more potential sites. We will also ask for your permission to share your grades with the sites. Most interviews will require you to travel to the site. While you are there, you will be given a tour of the laboratory, and will meet with the person who will be in charge of your clinical experience and possibly some of the clinical instructors. A few sites travel to Ferris State University to interview you on campus, and then schedule a laboratory visit later. You should take a resume to the interview to leave with the clinical education instructor. If you are unsure how to assemble a resume, the Career Services Office will be happy to help you do so. They can help you develop interviewing skills, too.

After you have completed your interviews, you will give the on-campus clinical coordinator your list of preferences for assignment. The clinical affiliates will also rank the students that they prefer to accept. The clinical site will make their choices based on your interview, your grades, and any other criteria that they choose. Most affiliated laboratories are looking at interns as prospective employees, so if you can honestly say that you are interested in a permanent job after you graduate, that will be a plus for you.

Then the clinical coordinator will assign each student to a site. We do our best to give each student his/her first choice, but it doesn't always work out that way. The affiliates don't always get their first choice of student, either!

After you are assigned to a site, you will get specific information, such as when you will start, hours when you are expected to be at the laboratory, where to park, what the dress code includes, and other details.