Help train medical students
Join the Volunteer Patient Program
To get really good at what they do, medical students need to practise their interviewing and examination and clinical skills on real people. The Volunteer Patient Program gives first-year students the opportunity to rehearse these skills.
Volunteer patient recruitment
Within each unit of the curriculum in Yr.1 & 2, students learn how to take the appropriate medical history and how to conduct the relevant physical exam(s). Because of that, we aim to recruit volunteers who have a variety of health conditions (e.g., diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, bowel disease, osteoporosis, epilepsy, thyroid conditions, asthma, etc.).
What to expect
A pair of first-year or second-year medical students will practise taking your medical history and perform a non-invasive medical exam under the direction of their tutor, a fully-licensed physician. Note: The session is not diagnostic in any way; student teams do not provide medical care or advice.
Registration
Volunteer Patient Program sessions run on Thursday and Friday mornings (9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon) throughout the academic year (September – May). You can volunteer once or more than once – whatever your schedule allows.
Honoraria
Volunteer patients receive a $25.00 honorarium for their participation at each session. This also includes a Sunnybrook parking pass for those volunteers who will be driving to the session - please park in Garage 1.
Location
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre: 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5
Peters-Boyd Academy of Medicine: E-Wing, 3rd Floor, Room 13b.
Patient Volunteer Coordinator:
Sonya Boston
sonya.boston@sunnybrook.ca
416-480-4274
