The Community Enhanced Internship Program (CEIP) is a novel track for fifth year medical students under the Internship Program of ASMPH. It is a 3-year model building program that started in July 2019.

It has the dual goal of (1) providing a community and practice-based internship on medicine and management for selected fifth year students of ASMPH and (2) expanding the front line services of a local health center through the establishment of a multi-specialty clinic and enhanced public health initiatives.  Drawn from the outcomes-based education (OBE) curriculum of the school, the program takes advantage of the opportunity for primary care centers to be effective instructional settings for teaching and learning. Aside from enhancing interns’ learning experience, the program contributes to the expansion of the health center’s frontline services by making specialty consults accessible through the presence of consultant faculty of ASMPH who supervise the interns rotating at the health center. The roots of this novel program can be traced all the way back to 2013, only a year after ASMPH opened its doors to medical students. ASMPH envisioned creating a program that would integrate knowledge and skills learned in family and community health management, MBA, and public health. In line with the school’s vision, the goal of this program was to build a critical mass of doctor-leaders who would hold leadership roles in key health-related organizations to effect systemic and systematic change for a more accessible and equitable health system.