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The Research Institute offers enriching internships to highly motivated high school and undergraduate students interested in research, healthcare, and premedical fields.
If you have any questions about internships, please reach out to spineonline@spinehealth.org.
For more information regarding our research, please read about our current research projects and SpineOnline® initiative.

Become part of a team of individuals working towards improving awareness and education of spine patients. The Research Institute offers volunteer internships for highly-motivated students including:

The National Spine Health Foundation established its Research Institute to foster a collaborative research environment for students to gain experience and knowledge of the spine health landscape. Our aim is to encourage the development of healthcare-focused students and drive collaboration in spine health research
The Research Institute gives highly motivated students the opportunity to play an integral role in investigating innovative spine treatments through volunteer internships. Internship activities include collaborating with top spine physicians and industry leaders on cutting-edge treatments, learning best practices in patient-related research, collecting and analyzing data, and learning techniques in writing blogs, abstracts, journal articles, and manuscripts for publication. The research projects our interns assist with help the Foundation promote innovation and to prove what treatments work. Our results give patients hope they will get better and back to living their best lives.
