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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Inova offers internships in summer. I am sure other large hospital systems have similar programs.[/quote]

No, they don't. [/quote]

This is the Inova program: https://www.inova.org/our-services/inova-volunteer-services-system/summer-2025[/quote]

You have to have registered by April 25th. So annoying. My college kid just got home from school and is looking for pre-med volunteering opportunities. I guess you need to look in the winter? Anything available now ?[/quote]

[b]Are you surprised that they expect would-be medical students to plan ahead?[/b][/quote]

It really does come down to this.

The INOVA student volunteer program summer positions are filled by lottery so the "early" registration (it really is not that early given that most college students start looking for summer positions in the fall prior) is to allow adequate time for those selected to be notified AND to have all their paperwork (TB testing is required and takes time).[/quote]

Just curious what the volunteers do, couldn’t see that info anywhere and given HS kids apply. [/quote]

IDK for sure at INOVA, but when I did volunteer hospital work for a medstar location, i mostly sat behind the counter doing admin type work like answering the phone and transferring calls to the patients room, or directing visitors down the hallway, or answering the patients calls and getting them a juice if that's what they wanted.  Or when meds arrived, I'd tell the nurse.  Or once a patient checked out I had to go through the file and make sure everything was signed and dated.  The only hands on stuff I did was help a nurse change bed sheets, and if the patient was bedridden, then I'd move the sheets around as nurse held patient.  IOW, i actually never touched a patient. [b] I would have like to sit and talk to patients more, but never had time.[/b][/quote]

I think if you want this kind of patient interaction, you could look into volunteering at a nursing home/long-term care facility.
https://www.sunriseseniorliving.com/about/volunteers[/quote]

None of the examples listed in the link are remotely related to patient interaction. [/quote]

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