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Apply for our Urban Medical Year Internship.

All available UMYI spots are filled for 2024-25. Please check back for 2025-26 openings.

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The urban medical year intern spends approximately one year working full-time alongside providers as a scribe and also completing a unique medical advancement curriculum.  While scribing, urban medical year interns see faith-based primary care through a provider's eyes. While doing advancement work, interns feel the heartbeat of the underserved by participating in neighborhood activities and thinking the thoughts of community leaders through guided readings and one-on-one meetings.

Meet the 2021-22 Urban Medical Year Interns

Meet the 2022-23 Urban Medical Year Interns

Meet the 2023-2024 Urban Medical Year Interns

  • Rolling applications during the academic year (summer to summer)
  • Application cutoff of mid-April for entry into the upcoming academic year
  • Employment start cutoff before mid-August to join the current academic year
  • Employment end cutoff after June 1st to complete prior academic year
Click here to apply

We offer an opportunity to ignite medicine and missions into one life-giving career.

Christ Community Health Services provides high-quality health care to the underserved in the context of distinctively Christian service.  We recognize that Jesus Christ is the true healer of individuals and their communities and the source of our ability to serve.

This internship is paid with benefits. Come join our mission!

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If this is a medical emergency, please call 911 or visit the nearest ER.

If you have a suggestion, complaint, or concern, please email: PatientExperience@ChristCHS.org
2595 Central Ave., Memphis, TN 38104
(901) 842-3160
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Tracy McDaniel
CEO
Jessica Hughes
Chief Financial Officer
Shannon Walker
Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Reginique Green
Chief Clinical Officer
Dr. Rasone Jones
Chair of Dentistry
Dr. Kristina Murphy
Chair of Pharmacy
Tara Samples, Phd
Chair of Behavioral Health

UMYI/UMUE

Apply for our Urban Medical Year Internship.

All available UMYI spots are filled for 2024-25. Please check back for 2025-26 openings.

‍

The urban medical year intern spends approximately one year working full-time alongside providers as a scribe and also completing a unique medical advancement curriculum.  While scribing, urban medical year interns see faith-based primary care through a provider's eyes. While doing advancement work, interns feel the heartbeat of the underserved by participating in neighborhood activities and thinking the thoughts of community leaders through guided readings and one-on-one meetings.

Meet the 2021-22 Urban Medical Year Interns

Meet the 2022-23 Urban Medical Year Interns

Meet the 2023-2024 Urban Medical Year Interns

  • Rolling applications during the academic year (summer to summer)
  • Application cutoff of mid-April for entry into the upcoming academic year
  • Employment start cutoff before mid-August to join the current academic year
  • Employment end cutoff after June 1st to complete prior academic year
Click here to apply

We offer an opportunity to ignite medicine and missions into one life-giving career.

Christ Community Health Services provides high-quality health care to the underserved in the context of distinctively Christian service.  We recognize that Jesus Christ is the true healer of individuals and their communities and the source of our ability to serve.

This internship is paid with benefits. Come join our mission!

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March 31, 2021
New COVID-19 vaccine drive-thru opens at Christ Community Health Services
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A COVID-19 vaccine drive-thru site is opening at Christ Community Health Services.
March 18, 2021
Need your second shot of Moderna vaccine? Here's what to do.
Christ Community among other organizations offering Moderna vaccine
March 12, 2021
Health leaders experience vaccination shortage at South Memphis sites
Christ Community Health Services leaders say they’ve been administering 600-900 vaccines at the Raleigh drive-thru site daily, but they’re having a harder time getting people to sign up for their pop-up site Sat. in South Memphis
March 8, 2021
Christ Community Health Services hosting vaccine clinic in South Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Christ Community Health Services is planning a COVID-19 vaccine clinic this Saturday.
February 22, 2021
Christ Community Health locations open for virtual visits due to water shortage
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Some locations a Christ Community Health are open only for virtual visits due to water shortages in the area.
February 16, 2021
Shelby County Health Department announces new COVID-19 vaccine site in Raleigh/Frayser communities
Shelby County Health Department is partnering with the City of Memphis and Christ Community Health Services to bring COVID-19 vaccinations to the Raleigh/Frayser communities.
December 11, 2020
Opinion: COVID fatigue is real; how do we cope?
When the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in Memphis in March, few would have predicted that eight months later, we would be experiencing a record number of cases around the country.
December 7, 2020
Four local nonprofits to receive Award of Excellence from Gov. Lee
“I don’t think anyone had anything in place related to COVID-19,” Shantelle Leatherwood, CEO of CCHS, said.
December 1, 2020
Christ Community Health Services needs your help
"So far, we’ve tested over 35,000 individuals for COVID. That was something that was, of course, never in our strategic plan,” said Michelle Lady.
September 20, 2020
Christ Community Health Services builds on legacy Four founders’ perseverance gave birth to medical clinic in underserved area
Shantelle Leatherwood has a megawatt smile anyway, but when she talks about Christ Community’s plans for South Third Street, her face glows with the fire of a CEO on a mission.
August 24, 2020
Le Bonheur statistics show pandemic’s brute force on children
Early evidence trickling in at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital forms the outer boundaries of just how different life is in many Memphis homes now, including a 250% increase in self-reported depression or mental illness...
August 11, 2020
Shelby County could expand pilot COVID-19 testing program to students, teachers
Shelby County Schools and some private schools are included in an asymptomatic COVID-19 testing program health officials are piloting, Alisa Haushalter, director of the Shelby County Health Department, said Tuesday.
June 20, 2020
Free drive-thru COVID-19 testing to take place across the Mid-South today
The Tennessee Department of Health, Shelby County Health Department, and community partnering organizations... are offering free drive-through COVID-19 testing
June 19, 2020
Gov. Bill Lee stops in Memphis at free COVID-19 testing sites
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — COVID-19 testing was offered across the Mid-South Friday in honor of Juneteenth.
June 10, 2020
Christ Community Health and local church partner to offer free COVID-19 testing, official says
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Christ Community Health Services and New Direction Christian Church announced they have partnered to host free COVID-19 testing today.
May 6, 2020
Christ Community Health Services hosts free COVID-19 testing for Hispanic, Latino community
Christ Community Health Services held a free testing site in Hickory Hill specifically for the Hispanic and Latino community.
May 4, 2020
Christ Community Health Services offering free asymptomatic coronavirus testing
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) -Christ Community Health Services is offering asymptomatic coronavirus testing Wednesday, May 6 for free!
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