Volunteering

As with extracurricular activities, volunteering can take many shapes and forms. It should be noted that volunteering serves two purposes: ** 1) ** To show community involvement—either at YU or at home or at your Synagogue. **2) ** To show your interest in and ability in working with sick people. Working with the sick is REQUIRED! For premed students at least 150 hours of patient related volunteer work is needed.

=Pre-Dental = For Pre-Dent students at least two different shadowing experiences with dentists is needed as well as any general volunteer work with patients.

=Positions = For volunteer positions one should contact the volunteer offices at local hospitals. For the summer this should be started no later than the end of January. For year round positions one should begin applying at the beginning of the semester BEFORE the semester you wish to start.

=Additional Resources = List of Volunteer oppurtunities near YU