Journalism and Marketing Communications in Pharmaceutical Media
Internship
Employer Partner: Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI)
Career(s)
Journalism (must have life sciences knowledge/coursework), Science Journalism, Marketing Communications (must have life sciences knowledge/coursework)
Overview
LPBI Internships offer the following:
- Affiliation with and mentorship by esteemed scientists and research graduate students.
- Skills development in NLP, ML, AI applications to Medical Text and Drug Discovery
- References/letter of recommendation
- Description of accomplishments and goals achieved during the internship
- Opportunity to contribute to publications
- Exploration of opportunities in life sciences in the U.S.
- Opportunity to collaborate with professionals from various fields such as medicine and Natural Language Processing as well as with other interns.
Internship Description
This internship introduces students to the process of researching and scientific writing with the end goals of completeness, balance, and accuracy. Preparation for master thesis.
Types of Students Desired
Student majoring in English, Journalism or Marketing Communications with interest/coursework in life sciences
Master student will be given more advanced tasks
Structure/Schedule
- Individual
- Summer and academic school year internships
- 12 weeks (flexible schedule)
- Zoom 1 time per week with supervisor
- Zoom 1 time during internship with others
Internship Project Work
- Marketing Communication Literature
- Public Relations Announcements
- Google Ads
- WordPress Advertisements
Skills Used/Gained
- Parallelism
- Journalism
- Marketing Communications
- Content Management
- Scientific writing
- Research methods
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