Student Health Organizations
Active involvement in clubs and organizations dedicated to the health profession is a great way to improve your skills and enhance your resume. These clubs are great spots for networking, making friends, hearing about career opportunities and requirements and learning about volunteer opportunities.
On-Campus Organizations
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Off-Campus Organizations
American Red Cross responds to nearly 70,000 disasters each year and is recruiting volunteers to provide services during disasters.
Clinical Care Extenders Program (CCE) is designed to give pre-health students unprecedented access to direct patient care experience in the hospital setting. The CCE Program is designed to be a rigorous year-long internship, during which time you will learn a lot about the field of health care and will learn a lot about yourself in the process. Popular locations for UCR students include Riverside Community Hospital, and Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina.
Cross Cultural Solutions works in community partnership programs in 12 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Volunteers observe and assist local health professionals, work with people affected by HIV/AIDS, and care for the elderly.
International Service Learning provides educational opportunities for students to learn about and provide services in developing countries, including working in teams for medicine, dentistry, optometry, public health, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, and veterinary medicine.
Medical Jobs Search Engine provides access to listings of health jobs, hospital employment postings, and other healthcare career opportunities.
National Association of Community Health Centers is the only national organization dedicated exclusively to expanding health care access for America's medically underserved through the community based health model.
National Health Service Corps is a unique group of dedicated and caring clinicians providing primary health care to adults and children in the communities of greatest need across the Nation by helping medically underserved communities recruit and retain primary care clinicians, including dental and mental and behavioral health professionals, to serve the community. nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov/ambassadors/2005/
National Rural Health Association The National Rural Health Association is the voice of rural health, promoting leadership, communication, education, research, and advocacy. The NRHA is an association dedicated strictly to rural health and encompasses many professions.
Operation Smile is a worldwide children's medical charity that currently supports international and local, in-country medical missions to 26 countries. Operation Smile has student programs and campus student organizations.
Peace Corps was founded to help the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women, to promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of people served and a better understanding of others by Americans. Volunteers work in education, youth outreach, and community development; business development; agriculture and environment; health and HIV/AIDS; and information technology.
Project Hope works to make health care available for people around the globe — especially children by educating health professionals and volunteers, providing medicines and supplies, strengthening health facilities, training community health workers, and fighting communicable diseases such as TB and AIDS. Volunteers work with ongoing programs or can be part of disaster relief teams.
Projects Abroad helps some of the neediest people and poorest resourced medical institutions in the third world. Student volunteers are involved in the day-to-day running of hospitals and clinics, observing or directly assisting doctors and nurses. Opportunities are available in numerous countries with projects in medicine, physical therapy, nursing, dentistry, occupational therapy and veterinary medicine.
