From Classroom to Clinic: Inside Our Medical Assistant Internship Network
Quick answer: Allen School of Health Sciences places Medical Assistant students in clinical internships at over 100 healthcare partner sites across New York City — including Mount Sinai, NYU Langone, North-well Health, and NYC Health + Hospitals — as part of its Medical Assistant training program in Brooklyn and Jamaica (Queens).
At Allen School of Health Sciences, the classroom is only half the story. Every Medical Assistant student trains hands-on in our skills labs — drawing blood, starting IVs, taking vitals, and processing specimens — before stepping into a real healthcare setting for their clinical internship. That internship is where textbook knowledge becomes real-world confidence, and it’s where students build the professional relationships that often lead directly to a job offer.
So where do our students train? We pulled the data from our most recent internship placements, and the results tell an exceptional story about the depth and diversity of Allen School’s healthcare partner network across New York City.
Major Health Systems
Some of our students train inside some of New York’s largest and most respected hospital and health systems, gaining exposure to high-volume clinical environments and multidisciplinary care teams.
- Mount Sinai: the region’s leading academic medical centers with placements at Mount Sinai — our single most frequent internship location — across multiple departments and specialties.
- NYU Langone / NYU Grossman: including NYU Langone Health and NYU Grossman School of Medicine, giving students exposure to both hospital and ambulatory care settings.
- North-well Health: students placed through North-well’s FlexStaff program and North-well Clinics locations across Queens and Long Island.
- NYC Health + Hospitals: one of the largest public healthcare systems in the country, including the Elmhurst campus.
- Weill Cornell Medicine: rounding out our academic medical center locations, alongside Mount Sinai Pediatrics and Downstate Health Physicians.
Community Health Centers
Community-based care is at the heart of the Allen School mission, and our students are placed on internship extensively across neighborhood health centers serving Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond — sites like Doral Health & Wellness, Bedford Medical Family Health Center, Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center, LaSante Health Center, and Sun River Health. These placements give students a front-row seat to primary care, preventive medicine, and the patient relationships that define community health work.
Students review specimen collection and processing supplies as part of clinical skills training.
Specialty Practices & Urgent Care
Beyond primary care, Allen School interns can gain experience across a wide range of medical specialties — including OBGYN (Garden OBGYN, Stonegate OBGYN), cardiology (Queens Cardiac Care, Advanced Heart Center), urology (Advanced Urology Center of New York), gastroenterology (West Side GI Center), pediatrics, podiatry, and endocrinology. Fast-paced urgent care sites such as Excel Urgent Care, First Response Urgent Care, and Medrite Urgent Care round out the list, giving students a taste of walk-in, high-turnover patient care.
Practicing proper tourniquet application and vein selection — essential phlebotomy skills for the clinical setting.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Medical Assistant internship at Allen School?
A Medical Assistant internship is part of the hands-on clinical training component of Allen School’s Medical Assistant program, placing students at a real healthcare site — a hospital, clinic, or private practice — to apply the skills they’ve learned in the skills lab under real-world supervision.
Where do Allen School Medical Assistant students complete their internships?
Allen School students intern at 100+ healthcare sites across New York City, including major health systems such as Mount Sinai, NYU Langone, North-well Health, and NYC Health + Hospitals, as well as community health centers and specialty practices in Brooklyn and Queens.
How many internship placements does Allen School arrange?
In our 65 years of experience, Allen School has arranged thousands of student internship placements across its healthcare network, reflecting the scale and reach of its Medical Assistant training program.
What skills do students learn before starting their internship?
Before their internship, Medical Assistant students master venipuncture (blood draws), IV insertion, vital signs, EKGs, and specimen processing in Allen School’s skills labs, under direct instructor supervision — the same skills they can use on day one at their internship site.
How long has Allen School been training healthcare talent?
Allen School of Health Sciences was founded in 1961 and has spent more than 65 years placing healthcare talent across the New York City area.
How do I learn more about Allen School’s Medical Assistant program?
Prospective students can reach out to Allen School of Health Sciences directly to learn more about program length, admissions requirements, and internship placement at its Brooklyn and Jamaica (Queens) New York campuses.
Built for the Internship, From Day One
None of this happens by accident. Long before students set foot in an internship site, they’ve already practiced phlebotomy, IV insertion, vital signs, and specimen processing dozens of times in our labs — under direct instructor supervision, on training arms and on each other. It’s this repetition that turns a nervous first day into a confident one, and it’s a big part of why our internship locations keep coming back to host Allen School students.
The result: Allen School graduates are ready to launch their healthcare careers.
Interested in a career as a Medical Assistant? Allen School students train in our hands-on skills labs and complete a clinical internship at one of over 100 partner healthcare sites across NYC — real experience, with real employers, before graduation.