The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Chicago laboratory is looking for graduate students with real-time PCR and/or epidemiology experience to help the state with COVID-19 testing.
If you are interested, I have outlined the application process below.
- Go to this link at the IDPH website: http://dph.illinois.gov/job-opportunity/internship
- Click on the "online application form" link under How to Apply?
- Fill out your General Information and School Information
- please use your school email: " .edu"
- This next part is important, please follow the next instructions carefully
- Under Internship Preferences, select the following:
- Seeking college credit: No
- Type of Internship: Paid
- Office of Interest (1st choice): Preparedness & Response
- Really, you can put any office. Unfortunately the lab that runs testing is not listed. So why not chose one that sounds interesting to you.
- Office of Interest (2nd choice): Preparedness & Response
- Desired Office Location: Chicago
- Hours Available Weekly: # COVID-19
- After the number of hours you are available, type out "COVID-19"
- This is how they will know you are specifically looking to help out with testing and pandemic response
- Applicant Comments: I am a graduate student with XXX experience interested in helping the Chicago lab run COVID-19 testing.
- It is important that you type out your interest in the lab, because they do not have this as an option under the "office of interest" section, silly
- Please indicate whether you have epidemiology and/or PCR experience
- File Attachments: NOT REQUIRED. The IDPH is not worried about these documents for these purposes. They have expedited this process to get us trained and helping their staff as quickly as possible.
