Community Service Projects
Casey's Community Service Handout Sheet
Mondays:
Pediatrics Dept at AGH 5-6pm
- playing board games and painting with the kids on the inpatient wards.
- Sign-up sheet on the MDL-2 fridge
Helping Hands Clinic 4:30-8pm
- First United Methodist Church – corner of NE 1st St. and NE 4th Ave
- Like EAC except with the homeless population of Gainesville
Thursdays:
Equal Access Clinic 6pm
Migrant Worker English classes from 6pm-9pm in Williston. Working with the Health Department of Williston.
Saturdays:
Habitat for Humanity 8am-1pm
- Saturdays starting in late Apr/ early May
Wilmot Gardens on every other Saturday - email me for specific dates and times.
4th Year Elective Information:
* 80 hours of community service are required in order to receive one month
off of your 4th year
* 15 of your hours must be performed in the 4th year (early so as to get the
hours done in time to receive your free month)
* 40 hours is the maximum you can receive for doing service outside of
Alachua County
* At least 40 of your service hours must be done in Alachua County
* For any trip outside of Alachua County, you can receive a maximum of 20
hours (this includes spring break mission trips)
Your hours must be logged on a scantron that is available in the Medical
Education Office. Your forms must be signed by a person in charge of the
site for which you are volunteering (not a student). The completed forms are
to be placed in a marked box in the Medical Education Office. Some
activities are preapproved (you will see the list on the volunteer hours
scantron).
In order to get credit for a service project that has not be preapproved,
your activity must get approval from a committee. To get approval, forward
the details of your volunteerism to Gina Gugluizza (ginag@ufl.edu). Approval
is often based on how involved and in contact with the people of need you
actually are.
The credit received for Community Service does not interfere with credit
from Elective Courses (in other words, if you do both, you can get time off
in 4th year for both). The goal is to encourage us to work in Alachua County
where there is great need already in places such as Helping Hands Clinic,
Equal Access, St Francis House, Peaceful Paths, Habitat, etc.
General Information
Here are some details about the credit you get for community service since most people have just a vague notion of it and several have been asking me.
* 80 hours of community service is required in order to receive one month
off of your 4th year
* 15 of your hours must be performed in the 4th year (early so as to get the
hours done in time to receive your free month)
* 40 hours is the maximum you can receive for doing service outside of
Alachua County
* At least 40 of your service hours must be done in Alachua County
* For any trip outside of Alachua County, you can receive a maximum of 20
hours
Your hours must be logged on a scantron that is available in the Medical
Education Office. Your forms must be signed by a person in charge of the
site for which you are volunteering (not a student). The completed forms are
to be placed in a marked box in the Medical Education Office. Some
activities are preapproved (you will see the list on the volunteer hours
scantron).
In order to get credit for a service project that has not be preapproved,
your activity must get approval from a committee. To get approval, forward
the details of your volunteerism to Gina Gugluizza (ginag@ufl.edu). Approval
is often based on how involved and in contact with the people of need you
actually are.
The credit received for Community Service does not interfere with credit
from Elective Courses (in other words, if you do both, you can get time off
in 4th year for both). The goal is to encourage us to work in Alachua County
where there is great need already in places such as Helping Hands Clinic,
Equal Access, St Francis House, Peaceful Paths, Habitat, etc.
Gina Gugluizza (ginag@ufl.edu) is the contact person in Dr. Davidson's
office for questions.
Helping Hands Clinic
There is a sign up sheet for volunteering at the Helping Hands Clinic on Monday evenings in the MDL. They could really use our help. The hours are typically from 4:30 - 7:00pm, but could run a little later or earlier.
It is at the First United Methodist Church in downtown Gainesville. Directions: Go east on University Ave, take a left on Main St, right on 4th Ave and go one block. It is a great experience, the volunteers are wonderful, and the patients are fun and colorful (often homeless) folks. Please sign up and make a difference!
Important message for volunteers: please remember to bring a community service form along with you in order to log your hours. They can be found in the MedEd office and dropped off there, too.
