Undergraduate Volunteer Division
About
UC Riverside undergraduates who volunteer in the SBFC Undergraduate Volunteer Division will have opportunities to gain both clinical and community service experience through engaging patients in a clinical setting and in engaging community members of San Bernardino in a community setting.
UC Riverside undergraduates who volunteer in the SBFC Undergraduate Volunteer Division will have opportunities to gain both clinical and community service experience through engaging patients in a clinical setting and in engaging community members of San Bernardino in a community setting.
In- Clinic Roles
1. Clinic Operations: Members rotating through this role will be part of team on clinic days that will focus on scheduling patients, preparing patients for their visit with their provider by obtaining their vitals and history, triaging the patient appropriately based on their needs, and pre-chiefing to their medical student.
2. Health Education: Members rotating through this role will be part of a team on clinic days that will speak to and educate patients about a variety of health topics during their visit depending on their educational needs and will connect patients to relevant resources in the community.
3. Quality Assurance: Members rotating through this will be part of a team on clinic days that will focus on ensuring that each patient that visits our clinic has received the appropriate care and treatment based on their medical and personal history. This will be carried out by having this team monitor patients’ charts using a specific set of guidelines derived from the US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations for Primary Care. This team will also be responsible for ensuring that the physician has signed each patient's chart, that medications have been sent to the pharmacy for such patients, that patients have follow-up appointments scheduled if needed, that any other necessary referrals have been made for such patients. Data collection and input will also be a responsibility assigned to this team on clinic days.
4. Medical Spanish Translator: Members rotating through this role will be part of a team of fluent Spanish speakers who will be the translators between our undergraduate/medical student volunteers and the patients during each clinic day. They will be responsible for chiefing with their medical student to the attending physician and assisting the different stations in clinic with translation for Spanish-speaking patients.
NOTE: You MUST speak Spanish fluently to take on this in-clinic role.
Out-of-Clinic Committees
1. Community Outreach: Responsible for connecting our clinic with the community members in order to recruit more patients as well as grow the reputation of SBFC with the San Bernardino area. Establishing a connection with the local government, businesses, and other organizations will be a large part of the job as a way of spreading the awareness of SBFC and the services it can provide the citizens of San Bernardino.
2. Finance: Tasked with setting up fundraising opportunities on and off campus, writing and obtaining grants, as well as creating budgets that will allow the clinic to progress and grow in an economically feasible manner. The raising of money will enable us to fund further outreach mediums and obtain new supplies to be used in clinic, contributing to our goal of serving as many patients as possible with the highest standard of care.
3. Health Education Development: A team that will be responsible for developing educational materials, presentations, and programs that will be used for patient health education purposes for during clinic and for out in the community. This team will develop the aforementioned educational materials for a variety of health topics, especially those that address the most common health disparities in the San Bernardino region.
4. Research: A team that works to establish and conduct studies that help us better understand the population we are working with as well as the performance of the clinic/organization as a whole through quality assurance measures. This team will also test and implement programs into clinic with the goal of optimizing patient’s experiences and outcomes. The research team will be steadfastly working to obtain research grants and submit presentations to health conferences to spread the findings from our clinic.
1. Clinic Operations: Members rotating through this role will be part of team on clinic days that will focus on scheduling patients, preparing patients for their visit with their provider by obtaining their vitals and history, triaging the patient appropriately based on their needs, and pre-chiefing to their medical student.
2. Health Education: Members rotating through this role will be part of a team on clinic days that will speak to and educate patients about a variety of health topics during their visit depending on their educational needs and will connect patients to relevant resources in the community.
3. Quality Assurance: Members rotating through this will be part of a team on clinic days that will focus on ensuring that each patient that visits our clinic has received the appropriate care and treatment based on their medical and personal history. This will be carried out by having this team monitor patients’ charts using a specific set of guidelines derived from the US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations for Primary Care. This team will also be responsible for ensuring that the physician has signed each patient's chart, that medications have been sent to the pharmacy for such patients, that patients have follow-up appointments scheduled if needed, that any other necessary referrals have been made for such patients. Data collection and input will also be a responsibility assigned to this team on clinic days.
4. Medical Spanish Translator: Members rotating through this role will be part of a team of fluent Spanish speakers who will be the translators between our undergraduate/medical student volunteers and the patients during each clinic day. They will be responsible for chiefing with their medical student to the attending physician and assisting the different stations in clinic with translation for Spanish-speaking patients.
NOTE: You MUST speak Spanish fluently to take on this in-clinic role.
Out-of-Clinic Committees
1. Community Outreach: Responsible for connecting our clinic with the community members in order to recruit more patients as well as grow the reputation of SBFC with the San Bernardino area. Establishing a connection with the local government, businesses, and other organizations will be a large part of the job as a way of spreading the awareness of SBFC and the services it can provide the citizens of San Bernardino.
2. Finance: Tasked with setting up fundraising opportunities on and off campus, writing and obtaining grants, as well as creating budgets that will allow the clinic to progress and grow in an economically feasible manner. The raising of money will enable us to fund further outreach mediums and obtain new supplies to be used in clinic, contributing to our goal of serving as many patients as possible with the highest standard of care.
3. Health Education Development: A team that will be responsible for developing educational materials, presentations, and programs that will be used for patient health education purposes for during clinic and for out in the community. This team will develop the aforementioned educational materials for a variety of health topics, especially those that address the most common health disparities in the San Bernardino region.
4. Research: A team that works to establish and conduct studies that help us better understand the population we are working with as well as the performance of the clinic/organization as a whole through quality assurance measures. This team will also test and implement programs into clinic with the goal of optimizing patient’s experiences and outcomes. The research team will be steadfastly working to obtain research grants and submit presentations to health conferences to spread the findings from our clinic.
Applications
Applications for the SBFC Undergraduate Volunteer Division are now closed. When the application cycle reopens, we will post the link to the application here.
Applications for the SBFC Undergraduate Volunteer Division are now closed. When the application cycle reopens, we will post the link to the application here.
Leadership
Dylan Bruss, Clinic Coordinator
Keerat Kaur, Clinic Coordinator
Carly Cruz, Training Officer
Annika Joshi, Training Officer
Christian Agatep, Community Outreach Chair
Jaanam Rashid, Finance Chair
Jennie Patel, Education Chair
Joanna Sung, Research Chair
Dylan Bruss, Clinic Coordinator
Keerat Kaur, Clinic Coordinator
Carly Cruz, Training Officer
Annika Joshi, Training Officer
Christian Agatep, Community Outreach Chair
Jaanam Rashid, Finance Chair
Jennie Patel, Education Chair
Joanna Sung, Research Chair
Contact Information
For any questions regarding applications, please contact sbfcapplications@gmail.com.
For any other inquiries, please contact Dylan Bruss, dbrus001@ucr.edu.
For any questions regarding applications, please contact sbfcapplications@gmail.com.
For any other inquiries, please contact Dylan Bruss, dbrus001@ucr.edu.
