California Northstate University College of Medicine
Clinical Work:
We are a team of medical students and residents providing COVID-19 education and medical supply/treatment to the Sacramento unhoused population. We have coordinated with Sacramento Emergency Responders to screen unhoused encampment residents using questionnaires and testing those suspected of having COVID-19 with toolkits provided by our County Public Health Department in addition to providing education on the pandemic and preventative/isolation management if camp leaders suspect COVID-19 cases.
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Kim Lau (kimberly.e.lau@gmail.com), Jericho Hallare (jericho.hallare6552@cnsu.edu)
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Resource Production and Acquisition:
Coordinating community donations of PPE and delivering PPE to community hospitals. Additionally, we are building face shields for some of our community hospitals.
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Household Help:
Dog walking, pharmacy runs, and grocery runs for healthcare worker families.
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Childcare:
Healthcare professional students are grouped into pods and paired with a healthcare worker’s family to support their childcare needs.
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Household Help:
Our volunteers provide in-person childcare/babysitting, online tutoring, pet-walking/sitting, and errands such as grocery runs. All of our childcare volunteers are fully immunized and the majority are CPR certified.
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Resource Production and Acquisition:
With a shortage and growing need of PPE during this pandemic, we are mobilizing volunteers to construct face shields for our affiliated hospitals. We also facilitate large and small donations of personal protective equipment, including goggles, safety glasses, and face masks to affiliated healthcare facilities.
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Clinical Work:
Community Partnerships – We seek to partner with and support the operations of clinics and hospitals around Los Angeles. In these stressful times, we hope to form and supply collaborations with our local healthcare infrastructures.
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General Services:
We seek to build volunteer recruitment programs, newsletters, and avenues for community members and students volunteers to get involved in the important service work our organization is involved in.
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Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Food Services:
Grocery delivery, baby items, take out food, and even pharmacy delivery are available to those that request it.
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LLU AID (lluaid2020@gmail.com)
Outreach and Social Media:
LLU AID offers phone/video prayer and Bible study for those that request it.
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LLU AID (lluaid2020@gmail.com)
Childcare:
Services such as babysitting are offered by the students; however, this is not in connection with the university. We also offer petsitting!
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LLU AID (lluaid2020@gmail.com)
University of California, Davis School of Medicine
Visitation and Check-In:
Medical students providing telephone outreach to COVID-19 positive patients and patients deemed at-risk.
Contact Information:
Kimberly My-Linh Ngo (kmlngo@ucdavis.edu), Christina Lowry (cmlowry@ucdavis.edu)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
PPE Donation pick-ups and outreach to local hospitals in the area; our team of health professional students are also involved in making flyers and outreach of our efforts on social media.
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Eve Solomon (easolomon@ucdavis.edu), Diana Lopez (dmilopez@ucdavis.edu)
COVID-19 Education:
Translating education materials, putting together local community resources.
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Kimberly My-Linh Ngo (kmlngo@ucdavis.edu), Christina Lowry (cmlowry@ucdavis.edu)
Childcare:
We have health professional student volunteers helping UC Davis Health staff with childcare services and household help (grocery and pharmacy pick-ups, pet-sitting, etc.).
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Kelsey Millar (klmillar@ucdavis.edu), Daisy Cruz (daicruz@ucdavis.edu), Diana Lopez (dmilopez@ucdavis.edu)
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
Food Services:
Provides free food and home supplies to UCI staff members. Volunteers will help pack, organize, and delivery supplies.
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Internal Activity
General Services:
Pairing medical students with UCI Med Center staff in order to run errands (basic groceries, pharmacy runs), dog walking, pet-sitting, etc. We also are looking into expanding it to some Kaiser physicians who reached out.
Contact Information:
Austin Franklin, Justine Chinn (ucimedstudentvolunteers@gmail.com)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
Our project aims to take PPE donations from the community and funnel them to the hospital for healthcare worker use. We have been accepting open and unopened unused supplies, but we’re working with the hospital to determine if they’re able to continue accepting opened unused supplies moving forward. So far we’ve accumulated 25,000 PPE items and are looking to now donate to other hospitals as well.
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Himakar Nagam (hnagam@hs.uci.edu)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
The Department of Anesthesiology has made a few prototypes of masks using Halyard material, the sterile wrapping for surgical trays. They have done some fit testing to see which masks would pass with EIP and have come up with the best model that may be the most re-creatable. They are hoping that medical students could help with cutting the patterns and wires so that the people sewing may have an easier time (or if there are students that also sew, that process itself will be faster).
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Aditi Sharma (aasharma@hs.uci.edu)
Screening and Testing:
Assist lab with non-technical and technical duties associated with testing for COVID-19.
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Edward Monuki (emonuki@uci.edu)
Visitation and Check-In:
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and the California mandate to stay at home, our already vulnerable older adult population is being forced to further isolate, which is of course in their best interest at this time, but may also have detrimental outcomes in the long run. According to the National Institute on Aging, research has linked social isolation and loneliness to higher risks for a variety of physical and mental conditions: high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, a weakened immune system, anxiety, depression, cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s disease, and even death. We created the ASSIST Program to help keep these possible repercussions at bay and believe that your time spent checking in with your paired senior volunteer will be most appreciated and needed.
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Ariana Naaseh (anaaseh1@hs.uci.edu)
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
COVID-19 Education:
COVID-19 Classes for Kids (CCFK)! We are mobilizing health professions graduate students across the country to teach virtual classes about COVID-19 to children who are currently “sheltering in place” at home. Please fill out this form if you are interested in joining our efforts: https://forms.gle/9stDLzBi7qtnCiv76.
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Hannah Rees (hannah.rees@ucsf.edu)
Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (WesternU/COMP)
Academic Tutoring:
Supplement third years’ curriculum with additional media (i.e. web lectures or documents) to help clinical students navigate VSLO and ERAS, obtain letters of recommendation, navigate professionalism and social media as a clinical student, choose interviews, and understand what to expect on each of their CORE rotations. We also plan on having Zoom Discussions with underclassmen to discuss dual-applying, taking gap years, military medicine, and how to navigate not matching your first time around.
Contact Information:
David Pilkington (dpilkington@westernu.edu)
General Services:
Google Document created to provide educational as well as general resources for WesternU students trying to navigate current situation with COVID-19. This includes volunteering opportunities, financial help, wellness, and community support.
Contact Information:
David Ashley (david.ashley@westernu.edu)
Outreach and Social Media:
Project Social Connect (PSC) is a social outreach organization whose mission is to examine, address, and alleviate the impact of social isolation on individuals in our community who may be more severely affected, including seniors, children, patients in palliative/hospice or other rehabilitative care, immunocompromised individuals, and family and friends of healthcare workers. This will be accomplished by partnering with local centers to connect our volunteers, collectively referred to as “Circle of Friends”, with individuals in need via phone or other virtual-based platforms. We are planning to offer various individual and group-based activities, such as phone pals, trivia nights, art workshops, creative writing activities, book clubs, open-mic nights, and more.
Contact Information:
Eric Nelson (eric.nelson@westernu.edu)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
Student-run cloth mask drive for local hospitals.
Contact Information:
Arjun Bakshi (arjun.bakshi@westernu.edu)