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| Mayor Thomas M. Menino addresses COACH interns at Children's Hospital Boston. |
The program, overseen by Brian Hughes and Florence Chan in Human Resources, was created to give youth from urban areas of Boston the opportunity to explore health care careers while having a safe and meaningful summer. COACH interns attended weekly check-ins with Hughes and participated in job and life skills workshops about such topics as health care careers, conflict and communication and banking literacy--during which Louissaint opened his first bank account.
When Phuong Kim Tran, 16, began her internship in the Emergency Department, she had no idea what sort of career she wanted to pursue but was eager to help with administrative tasks and interact with patients in the waiting room. "I wanted to take advantage of new opportunities and help people as much as I could, even though I'm not a nurse or a doctor," Tran says. By the end of her internship, she discovered she'd like to go pursue the business side of health care. "I like the environment and being around sophisticated, educated people," she says.
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