Medical Music Therapy - Internship

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare

Tallahassee, FL

Clients Served
Setting(s): Adult day care, Children's hospital or unit, General Hospital, Nursing home/Assisted Living, Oncology, Outpatient clinic, Physical rehabilitation
Population(s): Alzheimer's/dementia, Cancer, Chronic pain, Comatose, Elderly persons, Head injured, Medical/surgical, Neurologically impaired, Parkinsons, Speech impaired, Stroke
Age Range: Infant-old adult

Facility Characteristics
Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) is a 770 bed full-service regional medical center with multiple inpatient and outpatient specialty facilities. TMH provides music therapy services through group and individual sessions for premature infants through seniors in areas such as Newborn Intensive and Intermediate Care Units, Pediatrics and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Outpatient Rehabilitation Services, "Surgery Buddies" for pediatric surgical patients, Angie Deeb Cancer Unit, Heart and Vascular Institute, Inpatient Rehabilitation Center, NeuroScience Center, Neurology Outpatient Rehabilitation Services, Labor and Delivery, Parkinson's Awareness Choir, and Adult Day Care. Goals and objectives include cognitive stimulation and reality orientation, rehabilitation of physical and cognitive abilities, enhanced development, coping skills, mood elevation, and normalization of environment, and pain and anxiety management. Music therapy programs are augmented by the TMH Arts in Medicine program in which volunteers from the Tallahassee community provide patients, visitors, and staff with experiences in computer discovery, dance, theater, literature, music, and visual art to enhance the hospital environment.

Training
Music therapy interns at TMH have the opportunity to observe, co-lead, and lead individual and group sessions in all units and facilities, participate in treatment team meetings, document patient progress daily, weekly, and monthly, implement patient assessment and evaluation, and complete case studies and special projects. Additionally, field trips provide interns with exposure to other local music therapy programs in private practice, crisis intervention, psychiatric, special education, and palliative care settings.

Essentials
Starting Months: January,July
Housing: Not provided
Meals: Not provided
Stipend: $1,000.00

Clinical Training Director
Tallahassee Memorial Health Care
Miriam Hillmer, MME, NICU-MT, MT-BC
1331 East Sixth Avenue
Tallahassee, FL 32303
Phone: (850) 431-7468

email: Miriam.Hillmer@tmh.org