Data Science Clinical AI Intern
internship•United States•$0k - $0k
About this role
<h3>Details </h3><ul><li><strong>Department: </strong>Clinical and Population Health Analytics</li><li><strong>Schedule: </strong>Full Time Monday - Friday 8-5pm CT</li><li><strong>Location: </strong>Remote</li><li><strong>Salary: </strong>$17.37 - $23.50 Hourly</li></ul></br><h3>Benefits </h3><ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920;">Comprehensive health coverage:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;"> medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage and HSA/FSA options</span></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920;">Financial security & retirement:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;"> employer-matched 403(b), planning and hardship resources, disability and life insurance </span></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920;">Time to recharge:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;"> pro-rated paid time off (PTO) and holidays</span></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920;">Career growth:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;"> Ascension-paid tuition (Vocare), reimbursement, ongoing professional development and online learning</span></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920;">Emotional well-being:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;"> Employee Assistance Program</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #1e69d2; font-weight: 400;">,</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;"> counseling and peer support, spiritual care and stress management resources</span></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920;">Family support: </span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;">parental leave, adoption assistance and family benefits</span></li><li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920;">Other benefits:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;"> optional legal and pet insurance, transportation savings and more</span></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><em><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Roboto,sans-serif; color: #151920; font-weight: 400;">Benefit options and eligibility vary by position, scheduled hours and location. Benefits are subject to change at any time. Your recruiter will provide the most up-to-date details during the hiring process.</span></em></p></br><h3>Responsibilities </h3><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, especially to those most in need. In FY2018, Ascension provided nearly $2 billion in care of persons living in poverty and other community benefit programs.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Ascension includes approximately 156,000 associates and 34,000 aligned providers. The national health system operates more than 2,600 sites of care – including 151 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities – in 21 states and the District of Columbia, while providing a variety of services including</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">physician practice management, venture capital investing, investment management, biomedical</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">engineering, facilities management, clinical care management, information services, risk management,</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">and contracting through Ascension’s own group purchasing organization.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">The </span><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;">Ascension Data Sciences Institute (ADSI)</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"> was created in July 2019 with the mission of supporting Ascension in achieving its Quadruple Aim with uniquely skilled, high-performing associates who develop analyses, models, and applications to enable Ascension in providing higher value healthcare and making strategic decisions. We recognize that the healthcare environment is a complex ecosystem of rapidly evolving clinical and economic practices that affect patient and provider experience and demands increasingly sophisticated and complex measurement. Our objective is for analytics and data science to play a critical and foundational role in the transformation of care delivery, quality and financial outcomes to enable our organization’s competitive advantage. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #8db3e2;">Join Our Team (Paid Internship 2026)</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;">Internship Summary </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">The Internship Program with Ascension is designed to provide an on-the-job learning opportunity aimed at gaining "real world" work experience in a large healthcare environment, supporting leadership with data driven insights that deliver value to those we serve. Ascension’s objective is to provide a working and learning environment where interns can develop the skills and competencies necessary to grow into successful professionals and potential Ascension associates. The intern will work in the Ascension Data Science Institute team, within the Clinical AI team. </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;">What You Will Do</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Design and build novel prototypes utilizing predictive machine learning and text-based Generative AI to address complex clinical challenges.</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Develop and validate predictive models using structured tabular data (EHR, billing, and claims), focusing on feature engineering and handling the unique noise and missingness found in real-world healthcare data.</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Experiment with Large Language Model (LLM) workflows (e.g., summarization, information extraction) using Vertex AI to unlock insights from unstructured clinical notes.</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Perform rigorous model evaluation that goes beyond standard accuracy metrics to assess clinical utility, fairness, and potential algorithmic bias.</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Collaborate with team mentors to translate open-ended clinical questions into solvable data science problems, developing project plans and timelines.</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Acquire or improve proficiency with SQL, Python, GitHub, and Google Cloud Platform products such as Vertex AI and BigQuery.</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Document modeling decisions and architectural choices clearly to ensure reproducibility and enable future deployment by the Clinical AI team.</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Present the final project analysis or model to team members, data science leadership, and relevant clinical stakeholders.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;">What You Will Need </span></strong></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Education: Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in data science and/or a related STEM field.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;">Preferred Competencies:</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;">Proficiency in Python</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"> for data manipulation (e.g., pandas, NumPy) and machine learning (e.g., scikit-learn, LightGBM).</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;">Familiarity with NLP or GenAI frameworks</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"> (e.g., Hugging Face, LangChain) or experience with Prompt Engineering concepts.</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;">Exposure to healthcare data structures</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"> (e.g., ICD-10, CPT codes) or experience working with clinical data is a strong plus.</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;">Effective critical thinking skills</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">, specifically the ability to translate ambiguous business or clinical questions into technical requirements.</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;">Excellent communication skills</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">, particularly when explaining technical concepts or model limitations to non-technical audiences.</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;">Experience with version control (GitHub)</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"> and collaborative coding environments.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;">Ascension Will Provide</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Paid intern position</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Intern orientation and on-boarding</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Job coaching/career counseling/mentoring</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Opportunity for skill development</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Opportunity for networking</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Noto Sans Symbols',sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Equipment needed for the position</span></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000;">Intern will be responsible for</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Strong work ethic</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Outstanding attendance record</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Participation in Training and Learning programs</span></li><li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400; margin-left: -18pt;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #000000; font-weight: 400;">Remote work location, but need for regular, set daytime hours</span></li></ul></br><h3>Requirements </h3><p style="margin: 0px;">Education:</p><ul><li>High school diploma equivalency OR Enrolled in accredited program specific to discipline required.</li></ul></br><h3>Additional Preferences </h3><p style="margin: 0px;">#LI-Remote</p><p style="margin: 0px;">#ADSI</p></br><h3>Why Join Our Team </h3><p style="margin: 0px;">Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.</p><p style="margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="margin: 0px;">Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.</p></br><h3>Equal Employment Opportunity Employer </h3><p style="margin: 0px;">Ascension provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions, lactation, breastfeeding, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, all as defined by applicable law, and any other legally protected status or characteristic in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.<br /><br />For further information, view the <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EEO Know Your Rights (English)</a> poster or <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRightsSp6.12.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish)</a> poster.<br /><br />As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.<br /><br />Please note that Ascension will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Ascension will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.</p></br><h3>E-Verify Statement </h3><p style="margin: 0px;">This employer participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program. Please click the E-Verify link below for more information.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.e-verify.gov/about-e-verify" target="_blank" rel="noopener">E-Verify</a></p>
What you'll do
- The intern will design and build prototypes using predictive machine learning and Generative AI to solve complex clinical challenges, developing and validating predictive models using structured healthcare data. They will also experiment with LLM workflows to extract insights from unstructured clinical notes and perform rigorous model evaluation.
About Ascension
Ascension (www.ascension.org) is a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. In FY2018, Ascension provided nearly $2 billion in care of persons living in poverty and other community benefit programs. Ascension includes approximately 156,000 associates and 34,000 aligned providers. The national health system operates more than 2,600 sites of care – including 151 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities – in 21 states and the District of Columbia, while providing a variety of services including physician practice management, venture capital investing, investment management, biomedical engineering, facilities management, clinical care management, information services, risk management, and contracting through Ascension’s own group purchasing organization.
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What does Ascension pay for a Data Science Clinical AI Intern?
Ascension offers a competitive compensation package for the Data Science Clinical AI Intern role. The salary range is USD 0k - 0k per year. Apply through Clera to learn more about the full compensation details.
What does a Data Science Clinical AI Intern do at Ascension?
As a Data Science Clinical AI Intern at Ascension, you will: the intern will design and build prototypes using predictive machine learning and Generative AI to solve complex clinical challenges, developing and validating predictive models using structured healthcare data. They will also experiment with LLM workflows to extract insights from unstructured clinical notes and perform rigorous model evaluation..
Is the Data Science Clinical AI Intern position at Ascension remote?
The Data Science Clinical AI Intern position at Ascension is based in United States, United States. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.
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