{"id":12437,"date":"2025-07-16T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/?p=12437"},"modified":"2025-07-16T19:17:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:17:32","slug":"fall-2025-upstate-college-volunteer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/2025\/07\/16\/fall-2025-upstate-college-volunteer-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2025 Upstate College Volunteer Program and Standardized Patient Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-fl-accent-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-012f01df5e0ac838eb9dda5f3772b5fd\">Applications for Upstate&#8217;s College Volunteer Program and Standardized Patient positions are now open! <\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Upstate-College-Volunteer-Fall-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Upstate-College-Volunteer-Fall-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12438\" style=\"width:758px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Upstate-College-Volunteer-Fall-2025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Upstate-College-Volunteer-Fall-2025-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/Upstate-College-Volunteer-Fall-2025-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Upstate&#8217;s College Volunteer Program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upstate University Hospital is searching for volunteers that will support staff, patients, and visitors with compassion and empathy. Some responsibilities include greeting and escorting patients and guests, running errands for hospital staff, delivering patient items, and stocking supplies. College student volunteers are required to volunteer for one, 4-hour shift per week. Volunteers must be available for the entire semester, missing no more than 2 shifts per semester. Shifts are typically&nbsp;Monday \u2013 Friday, 8:30 am \u2013 12:30 pm, or 12:30 pm \u2013 4:30 pm,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>but may slightly vary per assignment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications for the Fall 2025 semester close on <strong>Friday, July 18th at 4pm<\/strong>. Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upstate.edu\/volunteers\/college-application-all.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Upstate website<\/a> to learn more about the requirements and submit your application, and contact <a href=\"mailto:volunteer@upstate.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">volunteer@upstate.edu<\/a> or call 315-464-5180 with any questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Standardized Patient<\/strong> <strong>Application<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Standardized Patients (SPs) are individuals trained to portray medical conditions for educational purposes. SPs come from diverse backgrounds and accurately portray patients, including their history, symptoms, and behaviors, in a consistent manner. This role helps medical learners practice patient interactions in a realistic and safe environment. SPs receive specialized training to memorize patient cases and provide valuable feedback to healthcare learners. They work under faculty guidance to support educational sessions and enhance the learning experience for medical and nursing students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Complete the online application form to be considered for a Standardized Patient role on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upstate.edu\/academic-affairs\/simulation\/index.php#jump-Employment-Opportunities\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.upstate.edu\/academic-affairs\/simulation\/index.php#jump-Employment-Opportunities\">here<\/a><\/strong>. You can also view more information on Standardized Patients on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upstate.edu\/academic-affairs\/simulation\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.upstate.edu\/academic-affairs\/simulation\">Upstate Simulation Department website<\/a>, or by reaching out to the Simulation Department at <a href=\"mailto:SIMULATE@upstate.edu\">SIMULATE@upstate.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While working as an SP is a paid position, Honors will accept hours worked towards your civic engagement requirement.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications for Upstate&#8217;s College Volunteer Program and Standardized Patient positions are now open! Upstate&#8217;s College Volunteer Program Upstate University Hospital is searching for volunteers that will support staff, patients, and visitors with compassion and empathy. Some responsibilities include greeting and escorting patients and guests, running errands for hospital staff, delivering patient items, and stocking supplies.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":12438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-health-and-wellness","category-want-ads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12437"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12445,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437\/revisions\/12445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/honors.syr.edu\/civic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}