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Countries/States Served:
ZA, AR
People Utilized or Employed:
Trainable Volunteers, Anesthesiology, Dietitian, Public Health, Pulmonary, Cardiology, Physical Therapy, Infectious Disease, Orthopaedic Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Business development, MHA Master of HealthCare Administration, Neurological Surgery, Occupational Therapist
Types of Students Allowed:
Medical Students, Premedical Students, Nursing Students, Prenursing Students, Veterinary Students, Preveterinary Students, Preoptometry Students |
Program Length:
Long Term (Greater than 1 month)
Language Skills:
English, Spanish
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University Affiliations:
Michigan |
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Current Volunteer Opportunities (Unpaid Positions)
Child Life Volunteer needed for
1 to 3 months
Opportunity Description:
We are currently offering volunteer internship opportunities on our Child Life team, providing much needed interventions and support for the children and caregivers treated at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. We work as an integral part of the Pain Management Team housed in the Anesthetics Department and provide services primarily on the burn rehabilitation and oncology wards with continued expansion throughout the hospital’s in and outpatient wards and operating theatres.
We strive to normalize the hospital experience through play as well as provide developmentally appropriate procedural education/psychological preparation and support to encourage effective coping and management of stressful medical events for children and their families.
Total Number of Volunteers Needed:
14
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Pre-med Volunteer needed for
1 to 3 months
Opportunity Description:
Responsibilities range from providing psycho-social support to patients, conducting clinical or public health research to providing support to nursing staff. Opportunities exist to attend ward rounds, surgeries or visit local communities.
Past projects have included a study on the effectiveness of communication between healthcare staff and the parents of pediatric patients; testing for hypoglycemia in nil-per mouth patients; assessing the impact of a newly introduced vaccine and the impact of urbanization on the prevalence of chronic diseases of lifestyle.
Total Number of Volunteers Needed:
14
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Public Health Volunteer needed for
Opportunity Description:
Specific public health opportunities have included work in epidemiology, education, rural and urban healthcare, public health policy and HIV/AIDS as well as work on healthcare education and training initiatives.
Possible projects may include:
Community mapping projects around healthcare facilities and chronic diseases of lifestyle
A rural/urban cohort study on non-communicable diseases
Studies into the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS
Monitoring and evaluation projects around HIV testing, support and prevention programs
Total Number of Volunteers Needed:
14
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Mission Statement: (See Web Site For Updated Information)
Our organization, Connect-123, assists students to find challenging internship and service learning projects in a wide range of fields including, medicine, public and community health, healthcare management, Child Life, physiotherapy and speech pathology.
Through our extensive network of local for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, we can tailor experiences for both undergraduate and graduate students according to their career goals.
This year, Connect-123 will work with over 350 students from over 200 universities at our two program locations — Buenos Aires, Argentina and Cape Town, South Africa. Our current university partners include Michigan State University, Arizona State University, the University of Southern California, and Bentley University and we have extensive experience in running both faculty-lead and semester-long programs for US universities.
I’ve attached additional information about our programs and for testimonials and reviews, please see our website at: www.connect-123.com/testimonials and our Facebook page at: http://tinyurl.com/yd3jy7k
We work with several major hospitals and academic institutions in Cape Town. Specific healthcare related internships have involved working on an international epidemiology study on non-communicable diseases, assisting with healthcare education and nutrition workshops, research on neurodevelopment in HIV affected children, the creation of head injury guidelines, theatre efficiency and blood transfusions in burns patients as well as research into how effectively healthcare staff are communicating with the parents of pediatric patients.
We also run a unique Child Life program to provide procedural preparation and psychosocial support for hospitalized children and their families at the Red Cross Children’s hospital.
We also provide pre-trip and on-the-ground mentoring and support, including assistance with housing and transport. |
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