Drexel BA/BS + MD Program

The BA/BS+MD program requires a specific number of volunteer/service hours. 

The following parameters are highly desirable in volunteer/service opportunities:

·       Patient care, patient exposure, and patient engagement

·       Assisting with clinical work, scribing, or medical procedure participation

·       Service with disadvantaged populations, such as those experiencing economic, food, housing, and/or educational insecurity; and/or those or their families experiencing incarceration or formerly incarcerated; and/or people who use drugs; and/or disabled populations

·       Providing personal services to others in the situations noted above, including tutoring, training, serving food, etc. (peer tutoring within Drexel does not count)

·       Community projects that promote wellbeing and health

·       Research or service coordination that involves directly working with people in the circumstances noted above (i.e., being a patient navigator is acceptable; recruiting or screening participants is not)

·       Records management or program evaluation that identifies or enhances services and/or resources for patients or disadvantaged and/or vulnerable populations

·       Service work can be in-person, on-site, remote, via phone (example: crisis hotlines), and virtual but with direct contact; can also be office-based without direct contact with the community but must be contributing somehow to the wellbeing of communities and populations (i.e., filing charts at a nonprofit community health center is acceptable; filing chart in a private for-profit medical office is not)

·       Service opportunities cannot be paid and cannot be purely for self-enrichment

·       Students may request approval for special projects, organizations, or volunteer opportunities that fall outside of these guidelines