Preparing for Medicine During COVID
Virtual Volunteering
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Advocacy
Identify topics that you’re passionate about and explore what advocacy efforts are available: contacting your representatives about specific legislation, promoting awareness about an issue, raising money for the cause, etc.
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Be My Eyes
Sighted volunteers are paired with blind and low-vision people for visual assistance via a free app
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Bookshare
Scan or edit books to be added to a collection for people with reading disabilities
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Call to Care
Interact with seniors via text, phone, and video conferences.
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CHD - Adopt a Grandparent
Connect with seniors in a senior living home via phone, video, and e-mail
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Crisis Text Line
Practice empathy and reflective listening for people in crisis by acting as a crisis counselor
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Online Volunteering
Various virtual opportunities
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Volunteer Match
Various opportunities, some of which are virtual
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Translators Without Borders
Translate texts into different languages for NGOs and non-profits
In-Person Volunteering
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Food Banks
Look for opportunities at local food banks that can offer safe social distancing practices
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Nevada Can
Volunteers are being mobilized to offer virtual support, deliver supplies and ensure elders have access to essential services they need during this time of isolation and quarantine
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Washoe County Health District
State Emergency Registry of Volunteers-Nevada (SERV-NV) is a secure, web-based system used to register, qualify and credential Nevada's healthcare professionals before a major public health or medical emergency. From this site registrants may elect to join local Medical Reserve Corps, Statewide Volunteer Pool, or Mental Health Crisis Counselors.
Telemedicine and Virtual Shadowing
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Virtual Shadowing
Sign up for various shadowing and mentoring sessions.
- Socially Distanced Shadowing
Pre-Med Reading
Many books are available at the library or through Overdrive/Libby, apps for audiobooks and e-books through your local library.
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Being Morale
Author: Atul Gawande
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How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Rank About Being Sick in America
Written by Otis Webb Brawley with Paul Goldberg
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
Written by Tracy Kidder
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Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers
Written by Mary Roach
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The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Medicine
Written by Eric Topol
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Written by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Written by Rebecca Skloot
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The Tale of Dueling Neurosurgeons
Written by Sam Kean
Pre-Med Podcasts
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The Medicine Wheel
Reno-Based Medicine Podcast
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The Short Coat Podcast
Dave Etler and the students of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
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Talking Admissions and Med Student Life
The Scope Health Sciences Radio from the University of Utah
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Dear Premed
Mary Tate from Harvard Medical School
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Academic Medicine Podcast
Editors of Academic Medicine
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All Access: Med School Admissions
Christian Essman from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
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The Premed Years
Ryan and Allison Gray
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Bedside Rounds
Adam Rodman from Oregon Health and Science University
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2 Docs Talk
Kendall Britt and Amy Rogers
Helpful Videos
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Project Echo
Check out video recordings on a variety of topics including public health, sports medicine, and pain management via the Project Echo video library. Take notes and write your own reflections to the video.
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Pre-Health Virtual Shadowing
Check out these videos that allow you to virtually shadow different specialties
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Online MedEd
Check out some of their videos that talk about telemedicine and other issues within today’s healthcare system.