All Health and Biomedical Law Concentration students are encouraged to complete an Internship OR related Clinical Program as part of the Concentration. 

•  Internships connected with the Health and Biomedical Law Concentration allow students to participate, under faculty supervision, in a variety of professional legal environments, including the general counsels' offices of area hospitals, biotechnology companies and independent research facilities and laboratories. Internship opportunities may also be available in the District Court system (in guardianship and civil commitment proceedings), in law firms specializing in the health and biomedical law field, in appropriate committees of the Massachusetts Legislature and in the state agencies having jurisdiction in the area, such as the Departments of Public Health and Mental Health. Internships will be offered subject to the availability of openings for law students in the various offices. 
  
  
• Internships must be approved by the Internship Director; the Administrative Director of Concentrations and the Health and Biomedical Law Concentration Faculty Director.  
  
  
• The current Clinical Program which may be counted toward the elective course requirements of the Health and Biomedical Law Concentration is the Health Law Clinic.  Particiaption in the Health Law Clinic requires application and acceptance prior to the academic semester during which the clinical program will be taken.  Click here for more information on clinical program application process.  
  
  
  

  Students may apply up to four (4) credits from participation in an Internship OR the Health Law Clinic toward the elective course requirements of the Concentration.