Field Work Term

The Bennington postbac curriculum includes a seven-week winter internship program called Field Work Term. After summer and fall terms of in-class academics, students can choose to leave campus to work or volunteer in a myriad of settings. Bennington faculty, staff, and alumni are available to assist students in finding a project and environment in which to explore an area of medicine or related fields that are of particular interest to them.

Postbac Field Work Term sampler

• Shadowing and working in clinical research at Washington University Medical Center
• Shadowing physicians and observing surgeries at Brattleboro Community Hospital
• AIDS clinic in Thailand
• Medical mission in Guatemala
• Research with Bennington faculty on specific projects including “The Chemistry of Gold Complexes” and “Synthesis and Properties of Luminescent Rhenium Complexes”
• Wilderness EMT course
• Learning medical Spanish and volunteering at a clinic in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala