Social Volunteering in Student Submissions

The Effect of Medical Student Volunteering in a Student-Run Clinic on Specialty Choice for Residency

INTRODUCTION  Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) are a recent popular addition to medical school education, and a subset of studies has looked at the influence of SRFC volunteering on the medical student's career development. The majority of the research done in this area has focused on understanding if these SRFCs produce physicians who are more likely to practice medicine in underserved communi...

GSA/SSSA 2008 Joint Meeting Faculty and Student Submissions

Volunteering, social cohesion and race: the German Technical Relief Service

This paper contributes to the debate on whether volunteering influences social cohesion, and argues that issues of race equality should be considered in this discussion. Whilst the German government, like other European states, promotes volunteering as a way of improving social cohesion, discussions on social cohesion in Germany tend not to mention race explicitly, whilst studies on volunteerin...

No excuses for good behavior: Volunteering and the social environment

Volunteering 2.0: How Can Volunteer Organizations Employ Online Social Networks?

The effectiveness of online social networks such as Facebook and Twitter for managing an organization is an area ripe for investigation in information systems research. Volunteer organizations in particular (who typically lag rather than lead in technology) stand to benefit from online social networks, if equipped with the knowledge to strategically implement these tools. This research context ...