CED Foundation is dedicated to promoting knowledge and education around medicinal cannabis. We champion efforts toward improved scientific research, medical implementation, and public education. The Foundation is dedicated to elevating the knowledge and conversation regarding the use of medicinal cannabis. As an academic, educational, and medical foundation, CED is compliant with all federal and state laws.
This internship:
Our internship will be a masterclass in how to educate the public on cutting edge medical and scientific literature. This opportunity is at the meeting place of entrepreneurial science and digital education, using social media as your podium.
Remote workers are encouraged to apply, however while the internship is remote, regular communication and updates are expected, during working hours, via Slack or email, on a regular basis.
While work product is expected from a self-motivated intern, there is open-door oversight and direction available throughout.
Interns will help craft social media messaging that is educational and engaging, with a goal of advocating for improvements in public health, patient care, and harm reduction. Amidst a hurricane of misinformation in the modern social media landscape, these educational posts are a beacon of evidence-based authority and accessible literature education. Even if the masses may avoid reading academic literature, they still deserve the opportunity learn critical facts and absorb scientific understanding, in whatever ways might be more accessible.
Work Product:
Most interns have been able to complete an average of 2-3 posts per day (70 posts per month), which varies by project.
Required Skills:
(These are all skills that are likely to be vital to any modern business, and wise for anyone motivated by commercial success to learn how to hone)
1) Self-motivation
Interns will be responsible for producing content, either blog, short-post, infographic, or video.
2) Ability to research trends, hot questions, and hot topics
Interns are encouraged to use available tools to learn about relevant trends, what questions the public is asking, what sorts of materials are popular to format appropriate answers - and to put that research/work into action serving the public!
3) Comfort and expertise navigating social media
Interns are tasked with creating content, scheduling the material to be launched into the social media ecosphere, and when posted, encouraged to be responsible for promoting the material (likes, follows, comments.) The necessary tools are all provided.
4) Organizing completed work and tracking objective measures of success
Online, these measures are everywhere, but not always intuitive to understand or make useful. Now is the time to learn, and this is one avenue in which to practice!
5) The ability to build and maintain a database of information.
In order to organize projects, a spreadsheet is helpful to track research tasks and facts relevant to a given research project. The organization skills required are straightforward, but not common to all interns. This is an important skill for this remote internship.
Example of a blog project:
1. Interns will be responsible for understanding and translating interesting scientific studies (from a concrete predefined database of cutting edge, fascinating literature)
2. After reading, processing, and pulling the critical elements of the article, the intern will summarize the work into a two-paragraph blog (translating potentially jargon-heavy verbiage into language suitable for mass consumption). Relevant images from the article should be included in the blog.
3. Next, the intern will create infographic images using Adobe Spark / Canva / Over (or related) to create eye-catching imagery and educational memes to help draw attention and interest from non-science readers.
4. Interns will then craft and blast social media posts of the work across several social media destinations, including Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Medium, and perhaps others.
5. Interns will get to watch their work spread education to the masses .
Other sample projects:
A) Create a video (from a slideshow presentation) to educate about a topic, under guidance of a supervisor):
1. Selecting a sub-topic
2. Craft a table of contents of relevant facts to know
3. Create an outline for delivery (drafting a slide for each point)
4. Compile evidence (references) to support each slide
5. Attach tasteful music, images, and flair elements to slides
6. Publish to YouTube
7. Watch the analytics of thousands of viewers enjoying and learning from the content!
B) On a given topic, put together video of interviews of the general public (In the style of late night television) and collate into a presentation video
C) Social Media Infographic design. Create educational infographics designed to teach the general public about plant medicine
Samples of past educational work (much is intern-supported):
Blog Education Samples: https://www.cedclinic.com/blog
Twitter Education Samples: https://twitter.com/drcaplan
YouTube education playlists: www.YouTube.com/c/CEDclinic
Instagram education samples: https://www.Instagram.com/drbenjamincaplan
More: https://www.CEDclnic.com/general
Headquarters
822 Boylston Street, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States
Website
www.CEDclinic.com
CED Clinic is dedicated to promoting knowledge and education around medicinal cannabis. We champion efforts toward improved scientific research, medical implementation, and public education. Our Foundation is dedicated to elevating the knowledge and conversation regarding the use of medicinal cannabis. As an academic, educational, and medical foundation, CED is compliant with all federal, state, and laws.
To reiterate: there is NO ASSOCIATION with any product, nor any direct contact with plants, utilities, nor paraphernalia. This is an ACADEMIC SCIENCE-oriented internship around the science of plant medicine, and translating the learnings to a social-media-consuming general public.
Good news: CED Clinic has 100% success connecting past interns (who had interest in such opportunities) with inside-industry employment!
