Graduate Student Internship (180 hrs)
The 180-hour internship can be in fitness, fitness in business or at a clinical site (i.e., PT clinic, hospital, OT clinic, cardiac rehab facility, etc). Each student is responsible for contacting the Internship Location Supervisor/Director and setting up her/his internship experience. With Grad Students, the Cardiac Rehab internships are very popular learning experiences. Here are two locations to contact.

NEW HEART
601 Lomas Blvd N.E.
Contact: Omar Negrete, Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation
omarn@newheartnm.com
Main phone: 505-881-8195

UNMH Cardiopulmonary Rehab
Contact Adam Montoya, Clinic Supervisor
Adamontoya@salud.unm.edu
505-272-5925

All graduate students will be assessed by their internship supervisor and Dr. Kravitz. The 180-hr internship grade will be determined by combining the overall assessment(s) of the site supervisor (70%—this is an overall written evaluation (it may be 8-week and 15-week assessments) OR letter of recommendation provided to Dr. Kravitz by the internship supervisor) with their submitted internship portfolio (30%—which is submitted and evaluated by Dr. Kravitz). The Portfolio (submitted electronicaly or by hard copy) is due at the end of the semester (Fall, Spring and Summer),during Finals Week. It should include the following:

Each student shall collect flyers, information, handouts, and all written materials from the worksite and create an Internship Portfolio (electronic or hard copy; your choice). The Internship Portfolio will be organized with topic headings in a notebook (see below for order). Students are encouraged to take photos of experiences (following patient confidentiality procedures of your intenship facility; you may need to take pictures of yourself demonstating the interventions of the facility) and include them in the Internship Portfolio. Please note that 5 pts (of the total 30 pts) are awarded for professional presentation and organization of the electronic or hard copy notebook! The Internship Portfolio shall include the following:
1. Cover and/or title page: Your name and internship experience
2. Executive summary: 1 to 2 page-typewritten summary of what you did and learned in the internship
3. Logs of daily experiences, with running hourly total of internship. Graduate Students DO NOT need to send Dr. Kravitz logs during the experience—just include in the portfolio at the end of the internship. See below for example Your Portfolio should have log entries documenting 180 hours at your location.
4. Student’s goals and objectives with internship experience
5. Student’s resume and/or job cover letter
6. All material about worksite program on health and fitness you can collect
Include materials and photos documenting your internship experience
IMPORTANTLY: YOUR INTERNSHIP SUPERVISOR EVALUATION CAN BE SUBMITTED SEPARATELY OR INCLUDED IN YOUR INTERNSHIP PORTFOLIO.

SAMPLE DAILY LOG ENTRY:
1/22/22 Tuesday
Today I met with Bradley, one of the exercise physiologists. He showed me how to use the electrical blood pressure machine and pulse oximeter. I got to take blood pressures and meet some of the phase III maintenance patients. These individuals have already completed phase I and phase II of the cardiac rehab program, and are now on a maintenance program. While the patients were exercising, I walked around the exercise room and talked with the patients and assisted them when necessary on the equipment. I observed a patient’s pulse on the pulse oximeter reveal bigemney sinus rhythm. It only seems to occur while this individual is exercising, and after a few minutes rest after, exercise, the bigemney rhythm subsides. This was exciting to see on my second day.

Day Hours 4.5
TOTAL HOURS: 9.0