Child Life Clinical Experiences
Nationwide Children’s Hospital does not offer opportunities to shadow Child Life services.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital is pleased to offer clinical experiences for students who are interested in becoming a Certified Child Life Specialist and have academic training. All candidates must be enrolled at a university during student experience.
Please do not submit an application if you are an independent student. We work closely with students to ensure the highest quality of learning opportunities and offer two different student experiences.
Please visit the Association of Child Life Professional website to learn more about requirements for child life certification.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital is not offering Fall 2024 Child Life Internship Experiences. However, we will be offering 2024 Child Life Practicum Experiences.
Child Life Practicum: An introductory experience designed to familiarize the student with the hospital environment, the child life profession, and to gain experience working with hospitalized children.
Child Life Internship: An advanced experience that focuses on further development of skills in the areas of assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating child life interventions.