Volunteer in the SimPORTAL

SimPORTAL Volunteer Facts:

• Work with surgeons, anesthesiologists, physicians, and Ph.D. educators to assist with the training for medical students, residents, and physicians.
• Learn about High Fidelity Human Patient Simulators, Virtual Reality Simulators, and cutting edge simulator design with SimPORTAL and CREST (Center for Research in Education and Simulation Technologies).
• Great experience for high school students, general undergraduate students, pre-medicine, nursing, engineering, physiology, pharmacy, or IT students!
• Flexible scheduling that works around your class schedule.

We are looking for volunteers with either a medical interest or a technical/engineering interest. For those interested in medicine, coursework in biology, social sciences, anatomy or physiology would be helpful. For those with more a an interest in the technical side of SimPORTAL, coursework in math, physics, computer science or engineering would be useful.

If you are interested in volunteering in SimPORTAL, please fill out an information and interest form.  This is a MS Word form that can be completed, saved and then emailed it to John Raymond. The University also requires that all volunteers complete and sign the Volunteer Researcher Agreement and Release form. Please complete this form, sign it and return it to SimPORTAL before you start any volunteer experience.  Some activities (harvesting animal tissue etc.) may also require completion of short online training courses.

Some volunteers may have the opportunity to observe medical procedures or shadow a physician. These activities require completion of the Medical School Observer Agreement. Individuals must also a statement of the objectives for observing and complete the HIPAA training packet.

For more information contact  John Raymond at (612) 626-5636 or by email at raymo003@umn.edu.