🩺 My Life, My Story Program — Clinical Volunteer
🏥 Organization: NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
📍 Program: My Life, My Story Program
💼 Position Type: Clinical Volunteer
🏥 Location: Weill Cornell Medical Center
💙 About the Program
The My Life, My Story Program is a patient-centered narrative medicine volunteer program at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. The program focuses on improving humanistic care for limited-English-proficient Spanish-speaking patients.
Volunteers conduct bedside autobiographical interviews with hospitalized patients and transform their stories into short, first-person narratives. These narratives are added to the patient’s medical chart and shared with their care team, helping healthcare providers better understand the patient beyond their medical condition.
📝 What You’ll Do
- 🗣️ Conduct bedside autobiographical interviews with hospitalized patients.
- ✍️ Create short, first-person patient narratives based on these interviews.
- 📋 Contribute narratives to the patient’s medical chart.
- ❤️ Help care teams better understand patients’ personal experiences and backgrounds.
- 🎓 Participate in seminars focused on trauma-informed care and narrative medicine.
- 🌟 Engage in mentorship and leadership opportunities.
🎯 Program Benefits
- 👩⚕️ 1-on-1 mentorship with a Weill Cornell medical student.
- 🌟 Opportunities to develop leadership skills.
- 📚 Exposure to narrative medicine and trauma-informed care.
- 🏥 Meaningful clinical volunteering experience in a hospital setting.
- 🤝 Opportunity to contribute to more humanistic, patient-centered care.
✅ Requirements
- 🇪🇸 Spanish fluency preferred
- 🎓 Pre-medical track
- ⏰ Commitment of approximately 5 hours every other week
- 📅 Minimum 1-year commitment
- 📄 Resume/CV required
⏰ Application Deadline
📅 September 4, 2026 at 11:59 PM
📩 How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit their application materials, including a resume/CV, by the application deadline.
📧 Contact:
mylifemystorywcm@gmail.com
