Partner With Us

What is Partnership?

Partnering with Med Ed Materials can help you or your organization in a variety of ways. Whether you are a local business or clinic owner, a physician, physician assistant, healthcare student, or something else, Med Ed Materials can help you improve healthcare literacy in your community or practice. If you would like to get in touch, visit our "Contact" page or send an email to general@mededmaterials.org and we will get back to you.

 

 

Ways you can partner with Med Ed Materials:

  • Become a partner organization or clinic so we can list you on our website
  • Use Med Ed Materials in your organization, individual practice, or daily life
  • Become a member of Med Ed Materials
  • Download our iOS App
  • Connect with us on social media
  • Apply for our Internship Program

Pinnacle Primary Care

Pinnacle Primary Care is a family medicine clinic located in Missouri City, Texas. Doctor Sumesh Aggarwal offers a range of services at this clinic including preventative care, post-acute care, and chronic disease management. The clinic emphasizes patient well-being, accessibility, and building lasting relationships with patients. Pinnacle Primary Care can accommodate walk-ins and offers flexible online scheduling to ensure healthcare revolves around the patient’s needs. To learn more about Pinnacle Primary Care visit their website at: https://pinnacle-primarycare.com/

Partner Clinic: Cara Direct Care

Cara Direct Care is a primary care office that implements a innovative practice model called "Direct Primary Care" or DPC. Through DPC, Cara Direct Care is able to take care of patients by spending more time with them at each visit and applying unique practice methods. By cutting insurance largely out of the doctor patient relationship, Cara Direct Care puts the focus on people instead of paperwork. For more information on Cara Direct Care, visit their website at: https://www.caradirectcare.com/

Partner Organization: West Suburban Community Pantry

West Suburban Community Pantry (WSCP) offers food for the hungry and resources to empower people to improve their quality of life. Serving over 5,600 individuals each month, WSCP is integral to helping our low-income neighbors receive the nutrition they need to lead full lives. WSCP is proactive in their mission and has partnered with Med Ed Materials to ease and eliminate the circumstances that led their customers to seek emergency aid. We are grateful for their support and look forward to continuing our fruitful collaboration for the benefit of all those we serve. For more information on WSCP, visit their website at: https://wscpantry.org/

Partner Clinic: North Valley Eye Care

North Valley Eye Care, located in Whitefish, Montana, has been caring for the residents of Flathead Valley since 1988. NVEC provides a wide variety of services including glasses, contact lenses, and eye health examinations. NVEC is excited to bring the resources of MedEd Materials to the pacific northwest. For more information on North Valley Eye Care, visit their website at:  https://www.whitefisheyedoctor.com

Partner Clinic: McIntyre Family Medicine

Nestled in the Chicago suburb of Westmont, McIntyre Family Medicine serves the local community by providing personalized, high quality, primary care. As a partner clinic, McIntyre Family Medicine uses our medical educational materials to help improve health literacy in their patient population. By leveraging the free tools that Med Ed Materials provides such as the iOS app and our free-to-use material catalogue, both Med Ed Materials and McIntyre Family Medicine are making a difference in the local community through healthcare education. For more information on McIntyre Family Medicine, contact them or visit their website at: https://mcintyrefamilymedicine.com/

Med Ed Materials Internship

Volunteer Internship Opportunity at Med Ed Materials

 

Are you looking for a flexible, personalized, and exciting volunteer internship opportunity in the medical field? Med Ed Materials is seeking highly motivated and enthusiastic interns to join our team for a volunteer internship program. As a leading provider of medical education materials, we are committed to advancing healthcare education through innovative and interactive solutions.

 

About Med Ed Materials:

The primary goal of Med Ed Materials is to increase health literacy levels for low income and uninsured populations. Med Ed Materials produces and distributes evidence based healthcare materials with a target readership of low income and uninsured populations in order to achieve this goal. We accomplish this by doing the following:

  • Producing high quality evidence based materials written at a 10th grade reading level or below
  • Including one or more credible source per material
  • Creating materials with topics helpful for our target readership of low income and uninsured populations
  • Posting materials to this website and the iOS app so that anyone may download and use them for free

 

Volunteer Internship Overview:

  • Hours and Location: This internship is a 100% virtual opportunity and is self paced. Since our organization has no physical location with regular hours, you will work virtually on your own time to set and accomplish goals that you and your coordinator set together. The duration of the internship is personalized to your goals.
  • Personalization: Med Ed Materials would like to personalize this internship to include and focus on areas that you are interested in. For example, if you work well with social media, your goals can focus and include social media opportunities. If your strengths include research and design, your goals can include making materials. If you can write code, you can work on our App Development Team. If you have a completely new idea, you can work on implementing it.
  • Responsibilities: As an intern at Med Ed Materials, you will have the opportunity to work on real-world projects and contribute to the development of our educational materials. You will work closely with our team and gain hands-on experience in various aspects of medical education, including instructional design, content development, multimedia production, social media, quality assurance, and more. This internship is an excellent opportunity to enhance your skills, gain valuable experience in the field, and make a meaningful impact on healthcare education. You will:
    • Express your interests and set goals accordingly
    • Weekly virtual online meeting/check-in with your coordinator
    • Monthly virtual attendance at our board meeting (the first Monday of the month)
  • Compensation: Med Ed Materials has a limited budget and unfortunately, we cannot offer any compensation. In fact, all of our general members or board members receive no compensation. Our yearly budget is around $50, and we dedicate it to our website maintenance and yearly legal filings.

 

Qualifications:

  • Currently enrolled in a relevant undergraduate or graduate program
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
  • Proficiency in Google Drive, Google Docs, and other relevant software.
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Familiarity with medical terminology and basic understanding of healthcare concepts.

 

How to Apply:

To apply for this internship opportunity, please submit your resume to general@mededmaterials.org.

Additionally submit a short 250 word or less paragraph explaining why you are interested in this internship and what goals you would like to accomplish.

 

Don't miss this opportunity to be part of a dynamic and innovative team that is shaping the future of healthcare literacy. Join us at Med Ed Materials and make a meaningful impact on healthcare education. Apply now!

 

What Do Past Interns Have To Say?

My internship through Med Ed Materials has benefited me in many ways, providing me with a sense of accomplishment and pride. This summer, I was able to develop skills, gain volunteer hours, and earn an award for dedicating time to contribute to a passion of mine: accessible healthcare. I really enjoyed the format of the internship- I was able to meet weekly over Zoom with Ross (the founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board for Med Ed Materials) and the other interns to discuss progress, set weekly goals, and participate in a journal club. I spent the majority of my summer traveling, so the ability to work on my goals at my own pace throughout the week allowed me to find time outside of summer activities that were also important to me. Working independently after collaborating with the team each week helped me to develop better time management and communication skills. I really enjoyed the journal club that Ross and Keon structured. Each week, the team would discuss an article that had been assigned at the meeting one week prior. The discussion included Ross and Keon asking questions that were extremely relevant to reviewing both the specific article and medical literature in general, while also tying in details from medical school and board exam curriculum. I really enjoyed learning and further developing my critical thinking and reasoning skills as we explored various medical specialties. One of my favorite aspects of the internship was exploring numerous topics in the field of healthcare, learning more about topics I was most passionate about, and working to deliver that information in an accessible manner. Through my internship with Med Ed Materials, I have expanded my skillset by becoming more proficient at using Canva. Learning how to navigate Canva is beneficial in many ways both personally and professionally, as one can use the platform for many purposes: advertising, fundraising, educating, raising awareness, etc. Overall, I loved the opportunity to work towards the mission of Med Ed Materials: to increase health literacy levels for low income and uninsured populations by producing and distributing evidence based healthcare materials. As I move forward in my medical career, I am more confident in my ability to communicate complex information in a manner that is understood by all.


- Brooke Blan

 

 

I very much enjoyed my internship at Med Ed Materials, and highly recommend it to any Pre-Meds out there! Being completely virtual, our weekly meetings were super flexible. Ross (our founder and CEO) is very open to any ideas you may want to pursue for the organization, making the experience personalizable as well. Having experience making and editing videos, I came up with the idea to make trendy “TikTok-esque” videos for our Instagram/YouTube to gain more exposure for our organization. In addition to his enthusiasm for new ideas, Ross was constantly asking for our thoughts on how to improve the organization. He asked us for our opinion on the website design, which has slowly evolved and improved with our feedback. It has been extremely rewarding interning for Med Ed Materials. In addition to contributing to a good cause — improving health literacy for low income and uninsured populations — helping Med Ed Materials continue to grow and improve its outreach has been a truly enriching experience.

Our weekly journal club meetings, where we read and discussed medical journals, were also extremely informative. These activities gave us a preview of the kind of work we would do in medical school, and gave us early exposure into how physicians make medical decisions. These discussions have helped shape my understanding of the role physicians have in healthcare, as well as the type of physician I would like to be.

If you are a Pre-Med student looking for a rewarding healthcare volunteer experience, I highly recommend Med Ed Materials!

 

- Michelle 

 

 

Interning for Med Ed Materials allowed me to get involved in areas of healthcare in a way where I can help increase health literacy. The flexibility and personalized experience of this internship let me focus on topics that I am interested in and can create posters about. The intern position also provided me the opportunity to launch Med Ed Materials’ social media pages where I got experience handling a business account and creating content that targets potential new members. Not only was I contributing to educating the community about health literacy, but I also got to be part of a team to expand the purpose of the organization and recruit new members. An additional part of this internship experience was being in an informal journal club where interns got to discuss the findings and results of medical studies with the board members who are current medical students. Being part of journal club gave me valuable insight on how to annotate medical journal articles and analyze their results. Overall, I believe this was a very beneficial experience as it further gave me experience in being part of healthcare education in not only creating new materials but also better understanding medical literature. 

 

-Srija