abstract:Externships are experiential learning opportunities, similar to internships, generally offered by career college types of educational institutions to give students short practical experiences in their field of study, as none of their units are accepted in the conventional community college or university world. In medicine it may refer to a visiting physician who is not part of the regular staff.
Because of this limit, and because it is possible to see the number of submitted applications (as well as the number of slots offered by the company) for each position, there is some strategy involved in deciding which externships to apply to.