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Student Opportunities

If you’re a student in search of elevating your skills and leadership or gaining experience and exposure in the field of rehabilitation and health care, you’ll find Good Shepherd Rehabilitation a welcoming partner with plenty of educational opportunities.

Good Shepherd Rehabilitation’s therapy student Spring 2024 application window is open between March 1, 2024, and March 31, 2024.

Apply now for a 2025 student placement.

More information is below for Observation Students, as well as opportunities for Undergraduate, Graduate & Post-Graduate students.

Or, if you’re looking for different opportunities, see our:

Nursing Externships
Internships
Non-Clinical Externships

Observation Students

Good Shepherd’s student observation program allows individuals 16 years and older to observe the field of rehabilitation for up to 24 hours in several locations and settings throughout the network. 

Criteria for observation:

  • Can complete up to 24 hours of observation that includes no direct, hands-on patient contact
  • Must be 16 years of age or older
  • Must provide proof of Covid and Flu vaccinations
  • Must sign and return the Student Observation documents (with parental consent when applicable)

All observation opportunities are for 24 hours or less.

Sign up for observation opportunities.

Undergraduate, Graduate & Post-Graduate Students

Good Shepherd offers observation and clinical student affiliation experiences in adult and pediatric inpatient and outpatient settings, and long-term care settings. Good Shepherd provides clinical student affiliations in nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, recreational therapy, respiratory therapy, care management (social work) and exercise physiology. Good Shepherd provides non-clinical student affiliations when available.

  • All students must show proof of receiving a COVID vaccine and sign the Waiver of Liability.
  • Students must be 16 years of age or older.
  • To complete a clinical student affiliation at Good Shepherd, you must complete and submit the necessary compliance documents.

Good Shepherd hosts two application windows for hands-on, for-credit physical therapy (PT), occupational therapy (OT) and speech-language pathology (SLP) students seeking a placement within our network. There is an application window in the spring and then another one in the fall. Please visit our website periodically for updates on when our windows will be open.

The students who apply within an application window have their applications, resumes and subsequent interviews reviewed, scored and ranked as part of a match process. This rigorous process is designed to match top-tier students with the most appropriate experiences, settings and supervisors within our network.

NOTE: Students who apply for rotations with our network outside of the application windows will be added to our waitlist. If you wish to be added to our waitlist, fill out our application.

Settings and Locations

Learn more about volunteering at Good Shepherd (not for credit).

For more information about Good Shepherd’s undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate student opportunities, email [email protected].