MedStar Washington Hospital Center, is a 900+ bed, Level I trauma center that provides a rich clinical ethics experience for volunteers at every level of training. Because the Center provides a 24/7, 365 day a year clinical ethics consultation service, running approximately 400 consultations yearly, volunteers are assured a broad and in-depth clinical bioethics experience.*
Summer Undergraduate Volunteer Program (SUVP)
Each year, the John J. Lynch, MD Center for Ethics at MedStar Washington Hospital Center invites applications to our 6-week Summer Undergraduate Volunteer Program (SUVP) beginning in June for students interested in clinical bioethics. A small cohort of undergraduate students are chosen each summer. The yearly deadline for applications for the SUVP is the last day of March, each spring.
Volunteers join the Lynch Center staff on clinical rounds in MedStar Washington’s nine intensive care units, attend meetings of the hospital’s ethics committee, including the Center’s subcommittees on education, consultation, policy, and organizational ethics, as well as shadow our consultants on bioethics case consultation requests. In addition, our volunteers can join staff on regularly scheduled interdisciplinary meetings and internal education activities, such as complex case discussions with medical residents, psychiatric ethics conferences, and a broad range of education programming for clinicians.*
Volunteers will be required to collaborate on ongoing projects with Lynch Center staff.
To apply for a Lynch Center volunteering opportunity, please submit the following:
- Letter of intent, outlining your interest in the field of clinical bioethics.
- Letter of recommendation.
- Unofficial academic transcript.
- Resume or Curriculum Vitae.
- Scholarly writing sample.
- Applicants considered finalists in the selection process will be asked to participate in a remote interview.
Completed applications and further inquiries should be sent to Benjamin Krohmal at benjamin.j.krohmal@medstar.net.