Medical Interpreter Program
Premedical Volunteer Program
VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INTERPRETING TRAINING
As a medical interpreter you can make a difference!
The Language Services Department at St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center has developed a two day training program to enable participants to acquire basic interpretation skills in the medical setting. Trained volunteer interpreters assist providers to meet the health care needs of our culturally diverse patients. A trained medical interpreter contributes to better health outcomes, better communication between provider and Limited English Proficiency (LEP) patients, increased clinician and patient satisfaction, and reduced legal risks. This program meets the requirements of the New York Department of Health and adheres to federal mandates and guidelines on cultural and linguistic appropriate health care.
The training will take place at St. Luke's Hospital on:
Saturday January 31st
and Saturday February 7th
9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Enrollment is open to all Columbia University students who speak French, Spanish and Russian. You must attend both training days.
Contact: Vanessa Lawrence, Coordinator
Language Services Department
St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center
1111 Amsterdam Avenue at 114th St.
New York, NY 10025
Phone: 212.523.2187
Email: vlawrenc@chpnet.org
Premedical Volunteer PROGRAM
Application Information & Documents are Available Online
The Premedical Volunteer Program places premedical volunteers in the Emergency Department or one of St. Luke's many other clinics and departments
The volunteer office is located at St. Luke's Hospital, 114th street entrance, North side of street at Amsterdam corner, room 103, Babcock Building.
Volunteer Eligibility - All students in good standing are eligible to volunteer with the exception of first semester first year students.
REGISTRATION DATES:
RETURNING PREMED VOLUNTEERS
St. Luke's: register with Mary Jo Page AT VOLUNTEER OFFICE
Mary Jo Page, Volunteer Coordinator
St. Luke's hospital
114th Street Main Entrance -Rm 103, Babcock Building
Roosevelt: register with Amy Bush
Amy Bush, Volunteer Coordinator
Roosevelt Hospital
212-523-7155
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NEW PREMED VOLUNTEERS
REGISTRATION IS FROM THURSDAY FEB. 5 THROUGH FRIDAY FEB. 13th
FROM 9:30AM TO 4:30PM at the Volunteer Office at St. Luke's.
ALL PAPERWORK MUST BE COMPLETED BY 12:15 PM FRIDAY, FEB. 13th.
All new volunteers must attend the Mandatory Volunteer Orientation and complete a full application. Academic Associate applicants do NOT need to attend this orientation.
WHAT: MANDATORY ORIENTATION FOR ALL NEW VOLUNTEERS
WHEN: FEBRUARY 3rd from 6-8 p.m.
WHERE: Muhlenberg Building, 4th Floor Auditorium.
IF YOU HAVE A CLASS CONFLICT during Orientation: Send your UNI and class conflict information to ma2685@columbia.edu and await further instructions. Academic Associate applicants do NOT need to attend this orientation.
HOW: APPLICATION COMPONENTS:
http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/preprofessional/health/volunteer.php#s
1 Obtain an Academic Clearance Form
2 Read the Core Competency Handbook
3 Fill out the Volunteer Medical Health Assessment
Obtain a copy of your immunization records showing proof of 2 MMR Vaccinations and a tuberculin skin test (PPD) within the last 12 months. These records can be obtained from your Advising Dean.
a) Take the Medical Health Assessment Form, AND proof of immunizations to St. Luke's Employee Health Service located in the Clark Building on the 1st Floor 114th Street & Amsterdam). If you do not have a current tuberculin test you can obtain one at Employee Health Service.
Please be aware that you will need to make two visits to Employee Health
- one to receive the PPD and the second to have it read (48-72 hours later). If you test positive to the Tuberculin skin test (PPD), you must provide a chest X-Ray Report from your own physician.
5. Current Copy of School Photo ID
6. Completed Reference Form
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Volunteer Applicant Deadline - FEB. 13th at 12:15 PM!
COMPLETED DOCUMENTS must be brought with you when you are registering to the Volunteer Office (114th Street Main Entrance -Rm 103, Babcock Building).
REGISTRATION PROCESS - You must bring all completed application materials with you at the time of registration to the Volunteer Office (114th street entrance, North side of street at Amsterdam corner, room 103, Babcock Building) signed, dated and stapled in the order listed:
1. Volunteer Medical Health Assessment Form, cleared by SL's EHS;
2. MMR Immunization record;
3. Academic standing form and a copy of school photo ID;
4. Volunteer Challenge Exam;
5 Completed Reference Form.
Incomplete documents will not be accepted. At the time of registration, you will schedule your individual assignment. There are limited availabilities; therefore enrollment will be prioritized on a first come first serve basis. It is highly recommended that you DO NOT wait until the second week to complete your application and register in the volunteer office.
Come prepared with several choices of days and hours you have open in your schedule, as there is a 5 hour weekly volunteer requirement.
Volunteer Commitment for the Premed Program: All volunteers are required to commit to volunteering for 5 hours per week - 150 hours over two semesters. This can be one five hour shift or two shifts of 2 and 3 hours respectively. Attendance is extremely important and if you miss three shifts without notice, you will be asked to leave the program.
The Volunteer Office is located at St. Luke's Hospital, 114th street entrance, North side of street at Amsterdam corner, room 103, Babcock Building. The volunteer office is open to visitors Monday - Friday from 9:30 to 4:30 or you may contact them by phone at (212) 523-2188.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Volunteer at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Volunteering at St. Luke's
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital?
There are TWO great opportunities this semester:
- Medical Interpreting Training
- Premedical Volunteer Program
MEDICAL INTERPRETING TRAINING
As a medical interpreter you can make a difference!
The Language Services Department at St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center has developed a two day training program to enable participants to acquire basic interpretation skills in the medical setting. These interpreters will assist providers to meet the health care needs of our culturally diverse patients. A trained medical interpreter contributes to better health outcomes, better communication between provider and Limited English Proficiency (LEP) patients, increased clinician and patient satisfaction, and reduced legal risks. This program meets the requirements of the New York Department of Health and adheres to federal mandates and guidelines on cultural and linguistic appropriate health care.
Enrollment deadline is September 10 and is open to all Columbia University students. Please call 212-523-2187 to schedule a screening test. Only those who pass the screening test will continue with the training sessions.
The training sessions will take place at St. Luke's Hospital on Saturday, September 13th and Saturday, September 20th at 9-4 p.m. Volunteers must attend both sessions.
PREMEDICAL VOLUNTEER PROGRAM
The Premedical Volunteer Program places premedical volunteers in the Emergency Department or one of St. Luke’s many other clinics and departments. Volunteers will have the opportunity to observe a variety of medical situations and perform other volunteer duties ranging from sitting with patients, transporting patients, running labs or charts, performing general clerical work etc. Premedical students may also join the interpreter program – which would allow them to translate for patients in their native language.
Volunteer Eligibility - All students in good standing are eligible to volunteer with the exception of first semester first year students.
RETURNING PREMED VOLUNTEERS
REGISTRATION IS FROM MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th – WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th, FROM 9:30AM TO 4:30PM at the Volunteer Office at St. Luke’s
Returning volunteers should register but do not need to complete another application or attend the orientation.
NEW PREMED VOLUNTEERS
REGISTRATION IS FROM FRIDAY, SEPT 26TH THROUGH FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3RD, 9:30AM TO 4:30PM at the Volunteer Office at St. Luke’s.
REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED BY 12:15 PM FRIDAY.
All new volunteers must attend the Mandatory Volunteer Orientation and complete a full application.
WHAT: MANDATORY ORIENTATION FOR ALL NEW VOLUNTEERS
WHEN: SEPTEMBER 25 from 6-8 p.m.
WHERE: Muhlenberg Building, 4th Floor Auditorium.
IF YOU HAVE A CLASS CONFLICT: Send your UNI and class conflict information to: ma2685@columbia.edu and await further instructions. Academic Associate applicants do NOT need to attend this orientation.
HOW: APPLICATION COMPONENTS:
http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/preprofessional/health/volunteer.php#s
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Volunteer Applicant Deadline – OCTOBER 3rd
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
The Latest Office Perk: Getting Paid to Volunteer; More Companies Subsidize Donations of Time and Talent; Bait for Millennial Generation
Today, a growing number of companies are lending out skilled employees to nonprofits and struggling small businesses around the world to provide accounting, marketing and other professional services. [...] say employers, first-rate corporate volunteer programs help attract and retain so-called millennials -- workers born after 1980 -- who are needed to help fill vacancies expected to be created by the impending retirement wave of the baby-boomer generation.
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Wall Street Journal
Sarah E. Needleman
Apr 29, 2008. pg. D.1
Last fall, Jenny Balaze left her post in Ernst & Young LLC's Washington office to spend 12 weeks in Buenos Aires as a volunteer, providing free accounting services to a small publishing firm. It was among "the best three months of my life," says the 27-year-old business advisory services manager.
The Big Four accounting firm covered her transportation, food and hotel expenses. Even better, she remained on the company payroll the entire time she was gone, and her job was waiting for her when she got back.
Corporate volunteerism often used to mean cleaning up public parks or building homes for the needy. Today, a growing number of companies are lending out skilled employees to nonprofits and struggling small businesses around the world to provide accounting, marketing and other professional services. Under these programs, assignments tend to tap into participants' skills and career goals.
To be sure, law firms of all sizes have a long tradition of providing pro bono work to nonprofits and individuals. But in recent years, more employers have begun offering similar arrangements for employees to do volunteer work on company time -- and the company dime -- even if it means employees miss weeks or months of work.
Why go to all the trouble? For one, employees often gain a broader perspective on business when they do their jobs in different settings -- knowledge they can bring back to the organization. And, say employers, first-rate corporate volunteer programs help attract and retain so-called millennials -- workers born after 1980 -- who are needed to help fill vacancies expected to be created by the impending retirement wave of the baby-boomer generation.
For many young job hunters, a prominent employee-volunteerism program is a strong selling point. A 2006 survey of 1,800 13-to-25- year-olds found that 79% want to work for a company that cares about how it affects or contributes to society. Sixty-four percent said their employer's social and environmental activities inspire loyalty, according to Cone Inc., a Boston-based brand strategy and communications agency, which conducted the survey.
"Millennials are saying, 'I don't want to park my values at the door,'" explains Carol Cone, chairman and founder of the firm. "They're asking companies: 'What's your purpose? What do you stand for? How are you giving back?'"
Companies are increasingly answering by creating volunteer programs and then touting them on their corporate Web sites and Facebook pages, as well as in meetings with job candidates.
Sarah Antonette, 28, says she opted to join PNC Financial Services Group Inc. last year instead of two other companies that offered her jobs partly because of its volunteerism initiative. "Some of the other companies I interviewed with do a one-off event or write a check, but PNC had an entire program," says the 2006 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh's Katz School of Business. She learned about it during her job interview.
PNC's volunteerism program includes partnerships with roughly 200 nonprofits nationwide. Employees can choose between skills-based assignments and projects unrelated to their jobs, says Kathy D'Appolonia, senior vice president for recruiting and employee inclusion at PNC.
Corporate recruiters say company philanthropy -- and building a reputation for direct involvement -- is a hot topic at campus job fairs. Laysha Ward, vice president of community relations at retailer Target Corp., says recruiters from all regions are hearing younger job candidates bring up the company's "commitment to the community as one of the No. 1 reasons they want to come work for us."
Ernst & Young's overseas volunteer initiative, which the firm launched in 2006, is "a big attractor on campus," says Deborah Holmes, a director of corporate responsibility. The fact that Ernst & Young limits participation to top performers or employees who have been with the company more than two years doesn't seem to be a deterrent, Ms. Holmes says. "It's something many new hires look forward to," she says. Other corporate volunteer programs have similar requirements.
For millennials and experienced workers, skills-based volunteerism is also a way to enhance their careers, says Greg Hills, director at FSG Social Impact Advisors, a nonprofit consulting and research firm in Boston. "Employees in general feel that they're delivering more value per hour volunteered when they're able to bring to bear their own workplace skills in addressing a social problem," he explains.
Ernst & Young's Ms. Balaze says her overseas assignment demanded more autonomy than any she had previously handled back in her office. "Being the only person working with that client, I was able to do a whole project from start to finish," she says. "Now the partners in my group are willing to let me work more independently because they know I've taken a project all the way through." Ernst & Young worked with Endeavor, a New York-based nonprofit group, in identifying small businesses in need of professional support in developing countries.
Skills-based volunteerism differs from the way many companies have traditionally supported nonprofits. Until recently, for example, United Parcel Service Inc. mainly donated money to nonprofits or arranged for employees to do volunteer work such as distributing food to homeless shelters, says Lisa Hamilton, president of UPS's corporate foundation. Now the delivery company also provides the expertise of its employees, she says.
A case in point: In 2005, Jimmy Guadalupe, a logistics supervisor for the delivery company, began providing supply-chain services to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for its annual Race for the Cure event. "I do the exact same things I do for UPS," says Mr. Guadalupe, 28, such as scheduling deliveries and assigning drivers to routes. He spends about 20 hours a month doing volunteer work, about half that on company time.
Employers are also seeing advantages to matching workers with volunteer assignments. "You develop their talent better," says Robert Mallett, a senior vice president at Pfizer Inc. and president of the pharmaceutical giant's corporate foundation. "They come back with more substantial leadership skills and a better strategic sense of how to navigate in different types of environments."
Employees say corporate volunteerism presents opportunities to network with colleagues from different departments, including senior leaders. For example, Amber Skorczewski, an associate marketing analyst at Target, led a volunteer effort last month involving 350 employees at the company's headquarters in Minneapolis. The group spent two days assembling safety kits for the American Red Cross and Salvation Army, among others.
As a result, Ms. Skorczewski, 26, got to work with the company's vice president of property development operations, who oversaw the event, and several participants she may not have spent time with otherwise, she says.
Overseas assignments, notes Pfizer's Mr. Mallett, are particularly effective for exposing workers to new ways of doing business. Pfizer expanded its volunteer initiative overseas in 2003, and since then, more than 155 employees have lent their expertise to nonprofits and government agencies in developing countries.
Among them was 30-year-old Shari Adler, a human-resources manager at Pfizer, who last year spent six months helping employees of the Tanzanian Ministry of Health implement workplace programs. She says it made her more confident in her ability to deal with many types of people -- critical to her work at a global company -- and gave her a chance to hone her leadership skills.
"It opens your eyes to things and teaches you how to communicate with people of all different backgrounds," Ms. Adler says.
Friday, February 8, 2008
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT RE: ST. LUKE'S VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION DEADLINE - IS TODAY!!
Pre-Med Advising has just heard from the Volunteer Department at St. Luke's. They are very near capacity for this semester's volunteer spaces. As a result, they have decided to close registration early.
The last day they will accept applications is: TODAY - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8TH.
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