The Student Success Jobs Program was established in 2001 in the Center for Community Health and Health Equity and has grown significantly over the years. Each year BWH engages Boston high school students in an immersive health and sciences internship experience. SSJP exposes young people in Boston to a dynamic range of healthcare careers, while also providing ample academic and professional growth opportunities. 

For more information about our SSJP, please check out Brigham Bulletin's SSJP Graduation Recap and Dr. Higgins June 2023 Highlights.

Program Details

SSJP students are matched with BWH mentors who offer authentic work experiences, exposure to career paths, and an understanding of how their profession contributes to the mission of BWH and the advancement of science and medical care. Through BWH’s commitment to our community, participating students also receive tutoring in math and science, SAT courses, college guidance, enrichment throughout high school, and scholarship eligibility.

You can be a part of this program as a mentor by accepting a student to work in your department for 7-10 hours each week through the school year. Mentors are essential to program success and over seventeen years, mentors tell us that they get back in satisfaction as much as they offer in guidance. 

Please complete the form below to receive more information or set up your SSJP mentor orientation. 

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SSJP Program Details

• Students are selected from our seven partnering Boston Public Schools and are motivated by an interest in careers in healthcare and science.
• The costs of the program are covered by the Center for Community Health and Health Equity. We ask that departments hosting our students provide supervision and guidance to our students. 
• Students work in a department for 7-10 hours a week after school. Students take on departmental tasks and projects that expose them to health/science careers.
• SSJP Students are eligible for trainings such as EPIC (Read Only and BPOT), CITI, and Good Clinical Practice.
• Examples of previous intern responsibilities include creating and updating community resource guides, filling carts for surgical operations, making patient phone calls, restocking supplies, checking in patients, data collection, extracting data from medical reports, researching grants, escorting patients and taking blood pressure.
• SSJP provides academic and social supports to ensure we are setting our students up for college and career success.
• SSJP students are fully onboarded as Brigham employees with BWH email addresses and IDs. 

In addition to departmental work, SSJP emphasizes the following learning opportunities to create a unique student internship experience:

• Hands-on clinical education opportunities (partnerships with Harvard MEDScience, MGH's YSIMS, Novartis CELL Lab)
• Public Health and Health Equity Education (monthly SSJP public health seminars, summer research projects, Youth Equity Group discussions)
• Healthcare job training and workforce development (SSJP staff led orientations and monthly seminar workshops)
• Youth leadership opportunities (SSJP Student Committee, Youth Equity Group and Mental Health Mondays) 

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Youth Programs, through the Summer Science Academy, Project TEACH and SSJP High School and SSJP Summer College programs, works on four levels to address health inequities by: (a) contributing to educational enrichment for young people through clinical, public health and health equity seminars as well as tutoring; (b) supporting employment and training opportunities in communities that have experienced historical disinvestment and structural racism; (c) encouraging youth driven programming in youth-led groups such as the SSJP Student Committee, Youth Equity Group and Mental Health Mondays and (d) increasing the diversity of the healthcare workforce and contributing to building a diverse workforce that is reflective of Mass General Brigham patients and communities.