Allied Health and Certificates

Children's Mercy Hospital is committed to providing an established, competitive and highly sought after child life practicum and accredited internship program offering comprehensive, competency based, and hands-on opportunities for students to develop clinical skills and build a solid foundation to begin a career in child life.

The Nutrition Services department at Children’s Mercy offers dietetic internships to students from universities that have a student affiliation agreement with the hospital.

The Hearing and Speech Department is committed to graduate level clinical education in pediatric audiology and speech-language pathology. We offer clinic practicum rotations in both disciplines.

Learn more about Masters and Certificate programs available for health care-related fields at Children's Mercy, including Bioethics, Clinical Research, Bioinformatics, and Health Education.

The Music Therapy Internship Program at Children's Mercy is committed to providing a quality learning experience that will enable the student to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to be an effective professional music therapist in a pediatric health care environment.

The Children’s Mercy Clinical Pharmacy Intern Program is designed to allow currently enrolled pharmacy students to grow professionally and academically while being immersed in a clinical hospital pharmacy experience.

Each quarter, Children’s Mercy offers a meaningful opportunity for college students or college graduates to enhance their nonprofit education and experience with a top Philanthropy team at a premier nonprofit through an unpaid internship.

Children's Mercy provides a medical interpreter practicum and training program offering comprehensive, hands-on opportunities for students to develop clinical skills and build a foundation for a career as a medical interpreter.

The Social Work Department at Children’s Mercy has a long history of supporting social work education and is committed to providing quality field instruction for Masters of Social Work (MSW) advanced-level clinical and administrative students.