Build your Pre Med Resume.
Volunteer in Health Care and in our Community.
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Volunteer at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview or Children's
http://www.fairview-university.fairview.org/Volunteering/c_118120.asp
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Volunteer with Unite for Sight
Pre-Meds are needed to start a chapter of Unite for Sight.
It's offering basic Snellen chart testing and paperwork help to get people
free visits with ophthalmologists. UFS also has international efforts, so
it's a great way for undergrads to get involved there and to help raise
money for the international clinics.
It would be a great opportunity for pre-meds, or any undergrad, to get some
great leadership experience, learn a ton, and have a little resume/med
school application boost. If you're interested and would like more information
please send an email to: francisco at mnfuturedocs dot com.
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Volunteer at Children's of Minnesota
http://www.childrensmn.org/Communities/Volunteer.asp
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Volunteer at Abbott Northwestern
http://www.allina.com/ahs/anw.nsf/page/volunteer?OpenDocument
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Volunteer at United Hospital
http://www.allina.com/ahs/united.nsf/page/Adult_Volunteer
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Volunteer at Allina's Home and Hospice Care
carehttp://www.allina.com/ahs/HCHS.nsf/page/volunteering
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Volunteer at Unity
http://www.allina.com/ahs/unity.nsf/page/UnityVolunteerAdultOpps
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Volunteer at Mercy
http://www.allina.com/ahs/mercy.nsf/page/MercyAdultOpp
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Volunteer at Fairview Southdale
http://www.southdale.fairview.org/Volunteering/index.asp
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Volunteer at Hennepin County Medical Center
http://www.hcmc.org/a_z/serviceleague/volunteer.htm
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Health Care Serve and Observe (SOE) with United Hospital
SOE is an amazing mix of volunteering and shadowing of physicians/other health care professionals. Take a look at this site for a fantastic opportunity.
College students may participate in this program during January term, semester, or summer and receive college credit.
http://www.allina.com/ahs/united.nsf/page/College_SOE
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Volunteer at La Clinica
We are grateful to have many professional volunteers working alongside staff to provide the best in community care to our diverse patient population. If you are a professional wanting to volunteer time in our clinics, please contact us and let us know your interests and availability. We have many different opportunities that may fit your skills and interests.
Are you an undergraduate or graduate student seeking information about our unique community-based care? We welcome you to our clinics, and we look forward to giving you first-hand opportunities to work with our staff and learn about how our unique approach truly improves the health of our diverse community.
For more information, please contact our La Clinica site at hr@westsidechs.org. We hope to see you soon.
Undergraduates and graduate students often volunteer time at our clinics.
We look forward to giving you first-hand opportunities to work with our staff.
Contact:
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Volunteer as a E-Mentor for the Augsburg Fairview Academic for Health Careers (High School)
To learn more, go to www.afa.tc.
ABOUT THE POSITION: Want to make a difference in the lives of high school youth? Want to help students explore college life or different careers? This is your opportunity! We are seeking College and Career Mentors to communicate with our students via email twice a month and attend field trips/get-togethers once per semester.
The goal of the college/career mentor is to expose students to adults to learn first-hand what it takes to be in college or a specific career. The mentors will be very instrumental in the student’s self exploration. Requirements: • College mentors should actively be seeking an Associates or Bachelor’s degree at a local college/university in the twin cities area in health-related majors but all majors are welcome • Career mentors should have a college degree or specific certification related to their position, in health-related careers but all careers are welcome • Commitment is writing emails twice a month • Attendance at optional field trip/get together once a semester • Preference to mentor for the whole school year (starting mid October until early June) • Some experience and/or willingness to work with high school age, urban students • Some experience and/or willingness to work with students who have limited English proficiency • Able to work with the students in a professional and caring manner
HOW TO APPLY: If you are interested, please send an email to Angelica or Heidi at ccc@afa.tc . If you have questions, please call 612.991.6992.
ABOUT
THE SCHOOL: Augsburg Fairview Academy for Health Careers is sponsored
by Augsburg College and Fairview Health Services. Our high school
focuses on lifetime wellness, college readiness, exploring and
preparing students for health careers. The Academy serves a highly
diverse student population in grades 9-12. Majority of our students
come from communities that are currently under-represented in the
health care professions and vary widely in academic achievement.
Located in vibrant downtown Minneapolis and south side Minneapolis, we
offer small group classes, great group of professionals and a unique
learning environment.
"Dance Your Heart Out” Dance Marathon for Camp Heartland, February 2009
Mall of America Rotunda
This information will be updated in December 2008. Stay tuned!
You can help send a kid with HIV/AIDS to camp!
How?
By Dancing.
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Join the Camp Heartland Dance Your Heart Out Dance Marathon at the Mall of America. Learn more about the event at
Join the Minnesota’s Future Doctors Dance Team for 12 hours (for the full dance marathon) or for 3 hours (as a Minnesota’s Future Docs "moraler" dancer).
Saturday, February XXX, 2009 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. for celebrities, food and fun.
Who: Calling all current Minnesota’s Future Doctors, pre- med students, high school students interested in medical careers, and current medical students
What: Join the Dance Marathon to send one kid to Camp Heartland in Willow, Minnesota this summer. We need $1,500 to send our camper. For more information on Camp Heartland check out www.CampHeartland.org
When: The event is from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, February XXX, 2009.
You’ll need to send the Minnesota’s Future Docs Dance Marathon Chair, Dame, an email by January 10, 2007. Let her know if you want to participate as a 12 hour Marathon Dancer or as a 3 hour Fun Dancer.
Email and Facebook Contacts:
Dame, our chairperson, will give you more information after you send her an email at idoss002@umn.edu.
Facebook group: MN Future Docs Dance Marathon
Step One: Go to our Facebook site and become a part of our group.
We’ll post all updates and information there.
Step Two: Register for our Dance Team at www.DanceYourHeartOut.org.
When you get on the web site, click on Dancers to register.
Go to the right side bar where it gives team ranking. Find Minnesota’s Future Doctors Team. Click on it.
Join our team by filling out the information.
There will be two sites at the bottom that ask for dollar amounts.
The first area will ask you to make a personal donation. You don’t have to make a donation of any kind from your own pocket.
The second area will ask you to secure $100 in pledges for your dancing. You should just leave the $100 in the goal area. Don’t worry if you don’t make that goal of if you don’t plan to earn even close to that amount. We need you to join our team and join the fun.
At the end, click Continue to join the Minnesota’s Future Doctors Dance Team.
Step Three: Decide what kind of dancer you will be for our team.
Full Dance Marathon Dancer will dance from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Join us at the Minnesota’s Future Doctors site at 9:30 a.m. to register at our table first. You will be able to find us under a large group of blue balloons at 9:30 a.m. Look to the right of the rotunda at the Mall of America.
3 Hour "Moraler" Dancer, College Age. You will dance the grand finale from 7 to 10 p.m. Join us at under the large group of blue balloons to the right of the rotunda at 6:30 to register with us.
3 Hour "Moraler" Dancer, High School Age. You will dance at 12 noon until 3 p.m. Join us under the large group of balloons to the right of the rotunda at 11:30 a.m. to register with us.
Regardless of what kind of dancer you want to be with us, please join our Facebook group and register with our team at www.DanceYourHeartOut.org web site.
Step Four: Get Pledges
The Camp Heartland team has asked each dancer to get $100 in pledges. That would be great, but it might not be possible for you.
If $25 is more doable (or any amount, even $0) – then aim for an amount that you are comfortable with.
Secure your donations by sending people to your donation location at the www.DanceYourHeartOut.org location or have people give you cash. If they want to write you a check, please have them write it to Camp Heartland.
Step Five: Give your Pledges to Dame or Jo
Dame, our student coordinator, will set a time and place to collect donations. They should be collected by January 30, 2008. Coordinate with Dame by coordinating with her, email her at idoss002@umn.edu.
Or, you may wish to set a collection location with Dr. Jo Peterson. She will collect funds by January 30, 2008 too. Coordinate with Jo by emailing her at jopete@umn.edu.
We probably won’t collect donations at the February 2 dance marathon event, unless you really really need to drop them off then.
Step Six: Dance
Please come at 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 2, 2008 to the rotunda of the Mall of America.
If you have questions, email Dame at idoss002@umn.edu.
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Volunteering: The One Who Changed Me
By: Future Doctor Sika Lawson, Coyote Cohort
The summer of two-thousand eight will be a summer that I would remember for many years as one that has challenged me analytically, personally and on a social perspective. Through the Minnesota’s Future Doctors program, I had what emerged to be a blessed opportunity as a volunteer with Goodwill/ Easter Seals of Greater St. Paul. To be perfectly honest, I was initially unhappy about being assigned to volunteer with Goodwill/Easter Seals because I felt that ‘how can volunteering here possibly help me in the medical field?’, and I was not looking forward to volunteering at this site throughout the six weeks. To my pleasant surprise, volunteering at Goodwill/Easter Seals has been a memorable experience, one that has enlightened me and will help me become more passionate and compassionate in my future profession as a physician and worker in the medical field.
As a volunteer with Goodwill/ Easter Seals, my priority was to assist adults who were in search of a job by helping them to build their resumes and conduct mock interviews. During each session I usually worked intensely with one person for the two hour shift, which allowed me the chance to get to know the person who I was working with more personally. The people who I assisted were African-American, and were uneducated with a history of unemployment or low-paying jobs as a result of this. My volunteer experience last week was one that I can say has been the most influential and life changing. As I walked into the room where I was volunteering, I saw the man that I was going to help wearing his hat very low and covering his face, while his body was slouched close to the table and I was to help this man write a thank you letter and work on various employment- readiness assignments. When I sat with him and wanted to start helping him construct ideas for his thank you letter, he covered the sheet of paper with his body, hiding it away from me in embarrassment, and I soon found out that his embarrassment was a result of him being unable to spell or read. I then helped the man spell simple words such as ‘thank you’, ‘your’, ‘Bob’, and as I did this I felt a great sense of sadness come over me for his situation. Being able to express himself through writing, or reading things such as street signs, the daily newspaper, or a job application are things that are not a possibility for this man; and it saddened me to think of how this greatly disadvantaged him in virtually all areas of American society which is so dependant on literacy and education for success. I was happy to help him by filling out his resume and a mock job application, because I knew that my little help was impacting him greatly to help improve and possibly change his future in the job market.
The Goodwill/ Easter Seals is a site that I probably never would have chosen on my own will. There, I was able to assist African-American adults who have not been able to obtain decent jobs due to their lack of education, which is a group that I have never served before. As I continued working with him he began to lift his hat from his face and became more comfortable with me. Our society is moving at a fast-pace where people who are disadvantaged either by their socio-economic status or illiteracy cannot catch up with the pack. By volunteering some time to help this man with what may seem to be a mere task as reading a piece of paper or spelling some words, was all that was needed to lift his spirits and become more connected to his environment. For that man, I was the person who stayed behind of the pack to ensure that he in some way kept up to further get the same treatment and opportunities that more advantaged have.
I learned to be a more holistic person who is culturally and socially mindful of every person’s background and how that in effect molds who they are now. I have never seen life in the perspective of one, who is not educated and employed, in comparison to my life which has literally been that of the opposite. I want to say thank you to the one who changed me, this man who changed me by making me a much more empathetic and conscientious person towards those who are disadvantaged. Now I am more knowledgeable in fostering positive relationships with people who are disadvantaged both on a personal and professional level. Volunteering or spending time to help people is not only uplifting food for one’s soul, but the other’s soul as well. Seeing the joy that this man had from my help has further fueled my hunger to help the Black community become more intertwined and at speed with the American society that is running so fast ahead of them without a second glance back.
Volunteering: the one who changed me
By: Future Doctor Dame Idossa, Coyote Cohort
A scoop of rice, soy, chicken powder, and vegetables. The task was simple; we had to put one scoop of each of these into a bag, seal them, and pack them into boxes. Never did I imagine that I would experience a life-changing moment in doing this simple task. But to my great surprise, volunteering at “Feed My Starving Children” has become one my most memorable events of the summer.
Upon arrival to the volunteering site, we were greeted by smiling faces and seated in a large meeting room. After a brief video and orientation about the organization, we were quickly divided into groups of five and directed towards our stations. There we began putting together the bags of food with each member of our group taking part. We laughed, played, and enjoyed the experience. Without our realization, our two hours quickly came to an end.
After cleaning up our stations, we were invited back to the meeting room. Once all of us had been seated, the leader of organization arose to give us a report on how many bags we had made and packaged. He praised us for volunteering and told us how much good our two hours had done. In the midst his speech, he went and got a piece of rock from a display case. He asked us if we knew what it was. We were all a bit perplexed by his question for the identity of the rock was of no mystery. He went on to tell us that what he was holding was not an ordinary rock. Rather, it was a rock made to look like flat bread. He proceeded to tell us that in extremely poor countries such as Haiti, mothers would give this “flat bread” to their children to keep them from feeling the hunger. I could no longer hear anything else he said past this statement. I’ve always believed myself to be fully aware of all the tragedies this world harbors, but hearing this story, put me in utter disbelief.
I’ve now come to the realization that as time goes by, the dire situations that many people face increasingly worsens. If we look closer to home, we see that the gap between the rich and the poor of the US is rapidly increasing. Unfortunately, many people are getting the short end of the stick. For example, a few years ago, problems like hunger, weren’t great problems here in the US. But today, hunger is beginning to strike many families, especially children. Hearing the story of the flat rock breads of Haiti has touched me in a way that has elevated my personal desire to volunteer here in the U.S.A. A scoop of rice, soy, chicken powder, and vegetables. The task is still simple, but the people that care enough to take action are sparse.