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Start your career in health.

The Medikea internship is a structured, mentored programme for students and recent graduates. Real ownership, real patients, real product — with someone senior beside you the whole way.

120+
Interns hosted
6
Month programme
64%
Offered a role
A Medikea intern working alongside a clinician
Tracks

Pick the work you want to get good at.

Every track is scoped around a real team with a real backlog. You are not shadowing — you own a piece of it.

Clinical operations

6 months

Sit with the care team and learn how a visit actually runs — triage, consultation, follow-up and everything that quietly holds it together.

  • Rotate through reception, lab and pharmacy
  • Shadow a consulting clinician weekly
  • Own one service-quality improvement

Software engineering

6 months

Ship to the Angular monorepo behind Medikea's portals. Your code reaches clinicians and patients, so review standards are real.

  • Ship to production in your first month
  • Paired code review with a senior engineer
  • Own a feature end to end by month four

Health data & analytics

4 months

Turn operational and clinical data into decisions the leadership team can act on without guessing.

  • Build dashboards used in weekly reviews
  • Learn the data model behind every portal
  • Present findings to the exec team

Marketing & communications

4 months

Tell the Medikea story to patients, employers and partners — and measure whether the telling worked.

  • Own a channel and its numbers
  • Write for the blog and social
  • Run one campaign end to end

People & talent

4 months

Help build the team that builds the product: sourcing, onboarding, and the culture work in between.

  • Support end-to-end hiring loops
  • Improve the onboarding experience
  • Run the intern community programme

Finance & strategy

4 months

Model the unit economics of care delivery and pressure-test where the business goes next.

  • Build models used in real decisions
  • Support monthly reporting cycles
  • Research one new market or line
The journey

Structured, not improvised.

You get a manager, a mentor and a written plan on day one. Every phase has an explicit outcome, so you always know what "doing well" means.

  1. 01

    Onboarding — week 1

    Meet your manager and mentor, get your accounts and access, and walk the full patient journey so you understand what the work is for.

  2. 02

    Foundations — month 1

    Scoped starter work with tight feedback loops. The goal is your first real contribution shipped and reviewed, not a training sandbox.

  3. 03

    Ownership — months 2 to 4

    You take a defined piece of the team's roadmap. Weekly one-to-ones, a monthly written review, and increasing scope as you earn it.

  4. 04

    Capstone — final month

    Deliver and present one substantial project to the team and leadership. It becomes the centrepiece of your portfolio.

  5. 05

    What's next

    An honest conversation about a full-time offer, a reference, and an introduction to our partner network if the fit isn't there.

What you get

Supported properly, paid properly.

A monthly stipend

Every Medikea internship is paid. We don't run unpaid programmes.

A dedicated mentor

One senior person accountable for your growth, with a standing weekly session.

A learning budget

Courses, books and certifications that serve your track, approved by your manager.

Medikea care

Full access to consultations and the wider Medikea health platform while you're with us.

A real reference

A written reference and a completion certificate that speaks to what you actually did.

First look at roles

Interns are considered ahead of the open market when a full-time seat opens.

Who we're looking for

We care more about how you think than where you studied. If you meet most of this, apply.

  • Final-year student or graduated within the last two years
  • Available for the full programme duration
  • Based in — or able to relocate to — Dar es Salaam
  • Comfortable working in English and Kiswahili
  • Evidence you can teach yourself something hard
  • Genuine interest in healthcare delivery