Medical Volunteer Opportunities

Kaiser Permanente offers a great volunteer program called LAMC. You will work in a medical clinic setting. You can either work directly with patients or work in the offices. When doing that you will be assisting the hospital playrooms, read to children, providing patient support and providing customer service for the members and their family. When in an office position you will answer phone calls, enter data, you will wayfind for the patients, as well as be the informational desk. It will be useful to list as clinical experience when applying to medical school or when becoming a nurse. I found interesting that you get to familiarize yourself with 35 different medical settings while volunteering.

Another volunteer opportunity is at UCLA health. They are looking for interns who are dedicated and are ready for the surgical setting. As an intern you will be escorting families after surgeries and wait with them in the waiting room. You will also provide the family with clarification on the surgery. You are also assigned individual tasks day by day.