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Mentoring Programs

We are happy that you are interested in a healthcare career. Exploring and confirming your interest in healthcare is an important step in realizing your career goals. Roper St. Francis Healthcare offers several programs that can help you in this journey. It is important to understand that with all volunteer/student programs, our top priority is the safety of our patients. A patient must be confident that everyone involved in his/her care is safe, knowledgeable, will not spread infection, will respect privacy and can handle an emergency. Hospitals have policies and processes that must be respected. We hope you will find a program that is a good fit for you. Students are our future in this rewarding field and we need you.

Scrubs Mentoring

Volunteering

Note: There can be confusion between shadowing and volunteering. Shadowing or observing, is watching and learning without any hands-on activity. When requesting a shadowing experience, you are asking a busy staff member to share their time with you. You are requesting the gift of an experience.

Volunteering on the other hand is a gift of service to others. If you have availability to be of regular weekly support and are willing to learn to lend a hand to support staff and patients, you might consider a volunteer role. You may or may not be needed in your primary area of interest. Consider what you are requesting or offering. Learn more about Volunteering with Roper St. Francis Healthcare.

The guide below should be used to determine who the best point of contact is for your needs.


Who should I contact?

SCENARIO POINT OF CONTACT
A student is enrolled in a school program which requires clinical hours for rotation/externship. Non-nursing Students: Student Program Coordinator, student.development@rsfh.com
Nursing Students: Cindy Plavney, Cynthia.plavney@rsfh.com
A student is accepted into a program which requires clinical rotation hours prior to enrollment. Student Program Coordinator, student.development@rsfh.com
An individual would like to job shadow a Roper St. Francis Healthcare team member for one to two days (16 hours or less). Student Program Coordinator, student.development@rsfh.com
A medical student, resident, fellow, or intern who would like to request an educational experience at Roper St. Francis Healthcare. For all schools except Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine (VCOM):  student.development@rsfh.com

For VCOM students: Senovia Doyle, senovia.doyle@rsfh.com
An individual would like to volunteer services. Volunteer Services
A student plans to apply for a school program (but is not enrolled or accepted into) and needs documented PT/OT observation hours to do so. Volunteer Services:
Berkeley Hospital: VolunteerBerkeley@rsfh.com
Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital: VolunteerStFrancis@rsfh.com
Mount Pleasant Hospital:VolunteerMPH@rsfh.com
Roper Hospital: VolunteerRoper@rsfh.com

Job shadowing

If a student has selected a Roper St. Francis Healthcare employee who has agreed to one to two day job shadowing, please fill out a job shadow form and attach it in an email to student.development@rsfh.com.

Please note the following general guidelines:

  • Students must be 14 years or older to job shadow. For our intensive care unit, birth suite, operating room, or emergency department, students must be 16 years or older.
  • The experience is limited to 16 hours or less.

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