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6.9 Interning with Family Members T7-T9

Students may intern with family members when the following requirements have been met:

1. Interning with a family member can have its challenges. Students must seriously consider the following potential issues:
   • With a family member evaluating an intern, the validity of the evaluations and feedback could be in question. There is a greater likelihood of the evaluations and feedback being less objective.
   • With family members, it often is difficult to maintain the role of clinician and student. Faculty clinicians who are family often revert to their family role instead of being a clinical mentor. The parallel dynamic often happens with the student.
   • Students interning with a family member are often related to as an employee instead of an intern. This changes the dynamics and learning outcomes of the internship.
   • There is a potential for limiting the variety of clinical experiences.
2. Students must sign the “Interning with a Family Member Agreement”.
3. The faculty clinician family member must sign the “Supervising a Family Member Agreement”.

T10 interns may contract with family members under the following conditions, please see Section 15.6.