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
