Get Involved - Columbus Clinic Host Group

Are you a physician, dentist, nurse, healthcare provider, or student? Do you want to volunteer for the Columbus Clinic? Please help us with this cause as we strive to provide accessible treatment to Columbus! Volunteers of all skills are needed and we appreciate all of your help!

How To Volunteer?

1. Log on to ramusa.org/schedule/ and find a clinic you’d like to volunteer at!
2. Head to ramusa.org/volunteer/ and select “Register” and fill out the form
3. Select your desired Clinic and which days you’d like to attend
4. Send yourself a confirmation email! This will have the addresses of your desired clinic
5. You will receive information regarding parking and the clinic about a week before the clinic’s start date

Step-by-Step instructions to register can be found here.

Have any additional questions?

Feel free to contact us anytime – ramcbus@gmail.com

Types of Volunteers:

Providers

Professional Students

Nursing Students (RN,BSN)

Undergraduate/Pre-Health Students

Other

Healthcare Providers(Physicians, Optometrists, Dentists):

We are so excited to have providers at our clinic and we truly appreciate your commitment! To volunteer as a healthcare provider, you must have an active, valid license and be in good standing with your respective license board. Check with the RAM Volunteer Team about states that allow out-of-state providers at volunteers@ramusa.org.

(MD, DO, PA, and NP) Students:

In order to work in the Medical Department, you must have faculty supervision.
A licensed faculty member may bring up to five students, all of whom must be in their third or fourth years of their programs.
Schools traveling long distances may bring up to 10 students, with only five working in medical one day and the other five switching in the next. Have your faculty supervisor contact volunteers@ramusa.org for authorization.

Dental Students:

In order to work in the Dental Department, you must have a licensed faculty supervisor and be in your third year of dental school.
Please have your licensed faculty supervisor contact volunteers@ramusa.org for scheduling.

Optometry/Ophthalmology Students:

In order to work in our Vision Department, you must have faculty supervision and be in your third or fourth years of school.
Please have your faculty-licensed practitioner contact volunteers@ramusa.org for scheduling.

If you are unable to find faculty supervision, we strongly encourage you to sign up as a General Support Volunteer and work in other areas of our clinics!

In order to work in our Triage area, you must have faculty supervision.
A licensed faculty member may bring up to five students, all of whom must be in the last “half” of their nursing program. For example, if you are in a four-semester accelerated program, you must at least be in your third semester on the date of the clinic.
We ask that nursing schools commit to attending the full clinic (so both Saturday and Sunday for a regular two-day event). Have your faculty supervisor contact volunteers@ramusa.org for authorization.

If you are unable to find faculty supervision, we strongly encourage you to sign up as a General Support Volunteer and work in other areas of our clinics!

In General Support, you can expect assignments as varied from registering patients as they walk in the door, working as a translator, helping with traffic flow and ensuring patients know where to go, making glasses on our mobile eye lab (we’ll teach you, don’t worry), helping patients pick out their frames, serving food to patients and fellow volunteers, and much more. Of course, assignments are given on a first-come, first-serve basis, so there is no guarantee you will be given your first choice.

General Support is an incredible opportunity to see the many, many parts that make up a clinic, and we hope you’ll find it as incredible as we do.

Students on a healthcare professional track are the key to the Columbus Clinic’s sustainable future, and we trust you will be the ones staffing our clinics 10 years from now.
We know how important it is for students to get hands-on experience, while also gaining life-changing exposure to the underserved.
However, RAM clinics operate with only one goal in mind: to bring free, quality healthcare to those in need.
Many of our patients haven’t seen a doctor in decades, so we try to make the experience as professional and as comfortable as possible.

This is not a teaching operation, and our first duty is to our patients.
Pre-Med, Pre-Dental, Pre-Nursing, Pre-Optometry Undergraduates: No pre-health undergraduates will be able to provide patient care.
If you are in undergrad, please register as General Support, which will still allow you to see many other fascinating aspects of our operations.

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Have any additional questions?

Feel free to contact us anytime – ramcbus@gmail.com

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