Clinical Work, Shadowing, and Certifications
Community Service Opportunities
- idealist.org
- volunteermatch.org
- omprakash.org
- National Medical Reserves Corps
- Red Cross
- Meals on Wheels
- Feeding America
- United Way
- Review this map of community homes seeking volunteers to care for hospice patients.
Be an active, helpful member of your home community.
- Volunteer to cover childcare needs for neighbors or to check in (by phone/from a distance) on the elderly.
- If you're part of a religious community, see if there are ways that you can provide support through them.
- Check with organizations where you have volunteered in the past to see if you can step back into previous roles.
Volunteer Virtually
- Brighten A Day
- Paper-Airplanes.org
- Dosomething.org
- Suicide Prevention Lifeline
- Crisis Text Line (requires 30 hours of training)
- The TREVOR Project
Assist in digitizing, transcribing and otherwise contributing to nonprofit organizations.
Pre-Health Summer Programs
AAMC Summer Enrichment and Pipeline Programs Database
LMU's list of off-campus research opportunities
Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP)
Johns Hopkins Summer Internship Programs (research)
University of Colorado Wilderness & Emergency Medicine Programs
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research
Oregon Health & Science University Equity Research Program
Keck USC Bridging the Gaps Summer Research Program
Stanford Asian Liver Center Summer Internships
UCLA Pre-Medical Enrichment Program (PREP)
UC Berkeley Opto-Camp
AAMC MD-PhD Summer Undergraduate Research Programs
Harvard Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program
Weill Cornell Medical College Travelers Summer Research Fellowship Program
Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine Enrichment Summer Program
Keck Graduate Institute Summer Explore Health Professions Program
Stanford Anesthesia Summer Institute
Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine Summer/Winter Internship Programs