Club Fair Tips: How to Get Sign-Ups for a Brand-New Club
A brand-new club walks into a club fair with one big disadvantage: nobody has heard of it yet. There are no older students vouching for it and no photos from…
Mary Bourke
How to Put “MEDLIFE Chapter Founder” on Your Resume and Applications
Starting a MEDLIFE chapter takes real work: getting your school’s approval, recruiting an executive board, running fundraisers, and keeping the whole thing going after you graduate. That’s work that can…
How Malak Started a MEDLIFE Chapter and Led 24 Students to Peru
When Malak was a health science student at College Universel in Quebec, a small college with almost no student clubs, a coworker at the pharmacy where she works was getting…
Real Student Experiences: What a MEDLIFE Trip Is Really Like
If you’re thinking about volunteering abroad with MEDLIFE, you probably want to know what the week actually looks like, and who better to tell you than people who have actually…
How to Spot (and Avoid) Voluntourism
Wanting to spend your break doing something useful abroad is a good instinct. But not every trip that calls itself service actually serves the community it visits. “Voluntourism” is the…
How Many Community Service Hours Do You Need for NHS, Graduation and Scholarships?
If you’re in high school, you’ve probably heard a few different numbers regarding community service hours: 40 hours, 75 hours, 100 hours. The honest answer to how many community service…
How To Overcome Language Barriers In Healthcare As a Future Professional
Clear communication between patients and providers is the basis of safe, accurate, and fair care. When they don’t share a language, important information can get lost, and patients may leave…
Student Travel Programs In Canada: How To Choose One That Goes Beyond Sightseeing
Time away from campus doesn’t have to mean a vacation, though that’s a perfectly good choice. Some Canadian undergraduates, especially pre-health and public health majors, want their time abroad to…
Service Learning vs. Volunteering vs. Mission Trips: What’s The Difference?
If you’re searching for ways to work with underserved communities abroad, you’ll probably start to run into three terms over and over: volunteering, mission trips, and service learning. They can…
Travel Insurance For Volunteering Abroad: A Guide For Canadian Students
The short answer on travel insurance for volunteering abroad with MEDLIFE is that it’s already taken care of: every SLT trip fee includes travel insurance. Your MEDLIFE SLT includes emergency…
Medical Summer Programs for High School Students
If you’re in high school and thinking about pursuing a career in health care, you’ve probably started looking into medical summer programs for high school students. There are a lot of…
Student Travel With Purpose: What It Looks Like for Canadian Students
Time abroad as a student can simply just be a vacation, and that’s a reasonable choice. But if you’re interested pre-health or public health and want your time abroad to mean…