CLICK HERE to download the Student Affiliation Agreement and Certificate of Insurance

IMPORTANT:  Your school must sign this Student Affiliation Agreement as a requirement for you to be considered as an intern.  The Certificate of Insurance document is included and required.  Please download the documents and give them to your Dean for review and signature.

To make a formal application to the program, please send all of the following items to the address below.   All of the items must be sent at the same time in one envelope in order to be considered.

1. Current resume (include all music therapy experience)
2. Official transcript(s) of all academic training (minimum of a 3.0 GPA in music therapy courses)
3. Course work description (i.e. brochure explaining the music therapy program at your institution)
4. Three letters of reference with at least two (2) references addressing your clinical skills (these need to be sent with your application packet, not separately)
5. Statement verifying anticipated completion date of your Music Therapy course work/eligibility to apply for internship positions from the director of your music therapy department.
6. Videotape of a Music Therapy session. (Videotapes are nonreturnable.)
7. Answers to the following questions

1. What do you hope to achieve in your internship?
   
2. What skills do you want to refine?
   
3. What areas of music therapy are of particular interest to you?
   
4. What are your strengths?
   
5. Describe a positive and a negative (or challenging) experience you have encountered during your academic/clinical training.
   
6. Why did you decide to pursue music therapy as a career?
   
7. Why did you choose this internship site?

- CONFIDENTIALITY ISSUE OF VIDEO TAPING CLIENTS
AMTA clearly states that due to confidentiality video and audio tapes of CLIENTS are not to be sent as a part of an internship application.  We honor that request.  In order to have the most complete picture of each applicant we have found that a video is of significant help.  We have listed several alternatives to create a video WITHOUT USING CLIENTS and ask that you consider them.  If these options are not possible, please send a NON-CLIENT audio tape of a session (15-20 minutes).

You may ask a small group of children (2 or more), perhaps professor's children, those from your neighborhood or from your church/synagogue; or ask an elderly or
not-so-elderly couple; or use a small group of college students. We are looking at your music skills, how you build rapport with clients, how well and quickly you think on your feet in response to your group, how you plan, transition from intervention to intervention and your leadership skills. Do your best. This truly adds to our awareness of who you are and what you can do. AMTA has approved this method.

Each intern applicant will have a personal, telephone-conference interview with all three supervisors. Once your application packet has been reviewed, the interview will be scheduled. During this interview, the applicant is expected to sing simple 3-4 chord songs with guitar and keyboard accompaniment. The majority of the interview is focused on the student's ability to solve problems and react to certain situations by introducing real-life scenarios that can happen in the hospital. The usual length of the interview is 45 minutes and time is provided for questions.

There are four (4) music therapy internship positions available each year. Starting dates begin in January, April, July, and October.  Interviews are conducted during the months of January and June.

Applications due April 15 and telephone interviews held in May for selection of the January & April interns of the following year.

Applications due October 15 and phone interviews held in November for selection of interns for July and October of the following year. 

If you have any questions about the application process, please call Dr. Lane at (216) 844-5298.  Thank you for your interest in the Music Therapy program at University Hospitals of Cleveland.

Deforia Lane, Ph.D., MT-BC, Clinical Training Director
University Hospitals Health System
Ireland Cancer Center
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-5065
Phone: (216) 844-5298
Fax: (216) 844-7832