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Volunteer with CURE
Change a life, one child at a time.
More than 300 volunteers serve with CURE and they are vital to helping us provide continuous, Christ-centered care of the highest quality across our hospital network. Together, our work will change lives annually!
Volunteer Opportunities
We are looking for pediatric healthcare professionals with 2 to 4 years of pediatric post-graduate experience, and interest in, the following fields:
- Orthopedics
- ENT
- Plastics & Reconstructive
- Neurosurgery
- Anesthesiology
- Nursing
- Physical & Occupational Therapy
There are occasionally opportunities for fellows, residents, and fourth-year medical students to serve with CURE.
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Volunteer Opportunities at CURE
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Medical Students
Multiple Countries | Global Outreach - Medical
Trip Length: 2-4 weeks (or longer)
Trip Dates: Flexible
Trip Location: Malawi, Philippines, Zimbabwe
Trip Description: CURE is offering a limited number of self-funded Medical Student learning opportunities alongside our medical co-workers to assist with patient care. Volunteer opportunities are limited to 4th year medical students. Please note that CURE cannot grant academic credit, but can work with a volunteers academic institution to help obtain credit. In addition, we ask that all volunteers come with an attitude of being a servant and ready to share skills that you have learned from your experience
Focus Areas: orthopedics, plastic, reconstructive, anesthesiology, or physiotherapy.
Trip Cost: Plane ticket and in-country expenses (accommodations, meals, travel insurance, etc) to be covered by volunteer.
Trip Opportunities: Medical Students at a CURE Hospital have the opportunity see the incredible transformation, both physically and spiritually, of some of the world’s most vulnerable children living with correctable disabilities. Depending on medical experience and CURE Hospital capacity, Medical Students may have the opportunity to:
• Engage in world-class medical care
• Participate in rounds, and observe in the OR
• Gain practical insight to the treatment of correctable disabilities
• See the holistic process of medical and spiritual care
• Witness the workings of hospital administration
• Experience a different culture
Occupational Therapist
Multiple Countries | Global Outreach - Medical
Focus Areas: Pediatric Occupational Therapy
Trip Description: CURE is looking for Occupational Therapists to come alongside our medical co-workers and assist with patient care. In addition, we ask that all volunteers come with an attitude of being a servant and ready to share skills that you have learned from your experience.
Trip Location: All CURE Hospitals
Trip Length: 1-2 weeks (or longer)
Trip Dates: Flexible
Trip Cost: Plane ticket and in-country expenses (accommodations, meals, travel insurance, etc) to be covered by volunteer.
Please Note: All volunteers who are volunteering within a medical capacity are required to be licensed in the country they are visiting. Please allow up to 9 months for application processing, hospital approval, and medical licensing.
Pediatric Anesthesiologist
Multiple Countries | Global Outreach - Medical
Focus Areas: Pediatric Anesthesiology
Trip Description: CURE is looking for Anesthesiologists to come alongside our medical co-workers and assist them with patient care. In addition, we ask that all volunteers come with an attitude of being a servant and ready to share skills that you have learned from your experience.
Trip Length: 1-2 weeks (or longer)
Trip Dates: Flexible
Trip Location: All CURE Hospitals
Trip Cost: Plane ticket and in-country expenses (accommodations, meals, travel insurance, etc) to be covered by volunteer.
Please Note: All volunteers who are volunteering within a medical capacity are required to be licensed in the country they are visiting. Please allow up to 9 months for application processing, hospital approval, and medical licensing.
Pediatric Neurosurgeon Volunteer
Uganda | Global Outreach - Medical
Focus Areas: pediatric brain surgery, hydrocephalus, spina bifida, brain tumors, and other neural tube defects
Trip Description: CURE Uganda has a limited number of opportunities for Pediatric Neurosurgeons to come alongside our medical co-workers to assist with patient care. In addition, we ask that all volunteers come with an attitude of being a servant and ready to share skills that you have learned from your experience.
Trip Location: Uganda
Trip Length: 1-2 weeks (multiple time slots available per year)
Trip Dates: Flexible
Trip Cost: Plane ticket and in-country expenses (accommodations, meals, travel insurance, etc.) to be covered by volunteer.
Please Note: All volunteers who are volunteering within a medical capacity are required to be licensed in the country they are visiting. Please allow up to 9 months for application processing, hospital approval, and medical licensing.
Pediatric Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon
Multiple Countries | Global Outreach - Medical
Focus Areas: Cleft Lip and Palate, Burn Contractures, Soft Tissue Reconstruction, Soft Tissue Defects.
Trip Description: CURE is looking for Pediatric Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons to come alongside our medical co-workers to assist with patient care. In addition, we ask that all volunteers come with an attitude of being a servant and ready to share skills that you have learned from your experience.
Trip Length: 1-2 weeks (or longer)
Trip Dates: Flexible
Trip Location: All CURE Hospitals (except Uganda)
Trip Cost: Plane ticket and in-country expenses (accommodations, meals, travel insurance, etc) to be covered by volunteer.
Please Note: All volunteers who are volunteering within a medical capacity are required to be licensed in the country they are visiting. Please allow up to 9 months for application processing, hospital approval, and medical licensing.
Pediatric Registered Nurse (RN)
Multiple Countries | Global Outreach - Medical
Nursing Focus Areas: pediatrics, post surgery care, operating, critical care, infection prevention and control services, and PICU in orthopedics, neuro, and reconstructive surgeries.
Trip Description: CURE has a limited number of opportunities for Registered Nurses to come alongside our medical co-workers to assist with patient care in a Clinical or Educational/Training capacity. Nursing volunteers in an educational capacity can expand upon surgical nursing topics for teaching. In addition, we ask that all volunteers come with an attitude of being a servant and ready to share skills that you have learned from your experience.
Trip Length: 2-6 weeks
Trip Dates: Flexible
Trip Location: All CURE Hospitals
Trip Cost: Plane ticket and in-country expenses (accommodations, meals, travel insurance, etc.) to be covered by the volunteer.
Please Note: All volunteers who are volunteering within a medical capacity are required to be licensed in the country they are visiting. Please allow up to 9 months for application processing, hospital approval, and medical licensing.
Physiotherapist
Multiple Countries | Global Outreach - Medical
Focus Areas: Pediatric Physical Therapy, Physiotherapy.
Trip Description: CURE is looking for Physiotherapists to come alongside our Physiotherapy Team to assist clinically with patients and/or provide teaching opportunities. In addition, we ask that all volunteers come with an attitude of being a servant and ready to share skills that you have learned from your experience.
Trip Location: All CURE Hospitals
Trip Length: 1-2 weeks (or longer)
Trip Dates: Flexible
Trip Cost: Plane ticket and in-country expenses (accommodations, meals, travel insurance, etc) to be covered by volunteer.
Please Note: All volunteers who are volunteering within a medical capacity are required to be licensed in the country they are visiting. Please allow up to 9 months for application processing, hospital approval, and medical licensing.
Physiotherapy Students
Multiple Countries | Global Outreach - Medical
Focus Areas: Pediatric Physical Therapy, Physiotherapy.
Trip Description: CURE provides limited opportunities for Senior Physiotherapy Students to shadow our Physiotherapy Team as they provide patient care. In addition, we ask that all volunteers come with an attitude of being a servant and ready to share skills that you have learned from your experience.
Trip Location: All CURE Hospitals
Trip Length: 1-2 weeks (or longer)
Trip Dates: Flexible
Trip Cost: Plane ticket and in-country expenses (accommodations, meals, travel insurance, etc) to be covered by volunteer.
Prosthetics & Orthotics Volunteers
Multiple Countries | Global Outreach - Medical
Focus Areas: Pediatric Prosthetics & Orthotics, congenital limb difference (phocomelia, proximal focal femoral deficiency, fibular hemimelia, neglected clubfoot), cerebral palsy, spina bifida.
Trip Description: CURE is looking for Prosthetists/Orthotists or P&O technician volunteers to come alongside our medical co-workers and assist with patient care. In addition, we ask that all volunteers come with an attitude of being a servant and ready to share skills that you have learned from your experience.
Trip Location: Zambia, Ethiopia, Kenya
Trip Length: 2 weeks (or longer)
Trip Dates: Flexible
Trip Cost: Plane ticket and in-country expenses (accommodations, meals, travel insurance, etc) to be covered by volunteer.
Please Note: All volunteers who are volunteering within a medical capacity are required to be licensed in the country they are visiting. Tentative trip dates are to be 6-9 months ahead for application processing, hospital approval, and medical licensing.
Resident & Fellow Rotation Opportunities
Multiple Countries | Global Outreach - Medical
Focus Areas: Orthopedics, Plastic, Reconstructive, Anesthesiology, etc.
Residents/Fellows at a CURE Hospital have the opportunity see the incredible transformation, both physically and spiritually, of some of the world’s most vulnerable children living with correctable disabilities. Depending on medical experience and CURE Hospital capacity, Residents/Fellows may have the opportunity to:
• Engage in world-class medical care
• Participate in rounds, and observe in the OR
• Gain practical insight to the treatment of correctable disabilities
• See the holistic process of medical and spiritual care
• Witness the workings of hospital administration
• Experience a different culture
Trip Description: CURE is looking for Residents and Fellows to come alongside our medical co-workers to assist them with patient care. Volunteer opportunities for Residents are subject to schedule availability and staff capacity. In addition, we ask that all volunteers come with an attitude of being a servant and ready to share skills that you have learned from your experience
Trip Length: 2-4 weeks
Trip Dates: Flexible
Trip Location: Kenya, Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Philippines, Zambia
Trip Cost: Plane ticket and in-country expenses (accommodations, meals, travel insurance, etc) to be covered by volunteer.
**Please note that CURE cannot grant academic credit, but can work with a volunteers academic institution to help obtain credit.
Volunteer Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon
Multiple Countries | Global Outreach - Medical
Focus Areas: Clubfoot, Limb Reconstruction, Foot and Ankle, Congenital Hand Deformities, Congenital Longitudinal Deficiency Symptoms, Neuromuscular Disorders, Pediatric Spine Deformity, Shoulder and Brachial Plexus Surgery, etc.
Trip Description: CURE is looking for Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeons to come alongside our medical co-workers to assist with patient care. In addition, we ask that all volunteers come with an attitude of being a servant and ready to share skills that you have learned from your experience.
Trip Location: All CURE Hospitals (except Uganda)
Trip Length: 1-2 weeks (or longer)
Trip Dates: Flexible
Trip Cost: Plane ticket and in-country expenses (accommodations, meals, travel insurance, etc.) to be covered by volunteer.
Please Note: All volunteers who are volunteering within a medical capacity are required to be licensed in the country they are visiting. Please allow up to 9 months for application processing, hospital approval, and medical licensing.