Student Nurse Externships

Overview

Pursue your career goals at San Diego’s only academic health system!

UC San Diego Health provides flexible student nurse externship opportunities. The Explore Program offers externships each semester (Spring, Summer, Fall), while the DREAM Program offers a longer, Fall-to-Spring externship (2 semesters). Specific placements are determined by unit needs.

Managers may assess extern students as potential candidates for UC San Diego Health’s Nurses Residency Program (NRP).

We offer two types of Student Nurse Externships at UCSDH; opportunities each aligned with specific nursing degree programs: