SEVA Free Clinic Volunteer Info

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR VOLUNTEERING AT SEVA CLINIC! The students and patients are so grateful for your support.

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Clinic Details

Clinic Time: Fridays, 5:30-8:30pm
Clinic Address: 2645 W Peterson Ave, Chicago IL 60659 (Little India / Arcadia Terrace Neighborhood)
Patient Population: Serves a large South Asian immigrant population who speak a variety of languages, primarily Hindi and Urdu. Interpretation is provided by trained students and on-site staff, with professional interpreters available as needed.

EMR - Practice Fusion

The clinic uses PracticeFusion to document all patient encounters. If it’s your first time volunteering, let us know and we can make sure to make an account for you. Please let us know if you would like a tutorial on this software!

Patient Labs/Medication

We have a list of labs and medications that we can offer in-house for the patient (no cost to them). This list is updated regularly and posted in the back workroom for your reference! **any other labs or medications can be written out for the patient to get at another facility!

Clinic Workflow

Medical students will take the patient's history and vitals, and will perform relevant physical exams they are trained in, and then present patients to you! (Note: most volunteers are pre-clinical students who are learning how to take histories, present patients, etc. Feedback on these clinical skills is appreciated!)
Students and attending will return to the patient to collect any further history, and/or perform any additional physical exams, and to discuss plans, prescriptions, lab orders, etc. Students will then document the encounter in EMR.
Meanwhile, student coordinators will present lab results from patients from, relevant medical history, and chief complaints from the previous week's clinic.
After discussing plans/recommendations with you, students will call the patients with their results and the plan of action, and record this encounter in the EMR. You will need to sign off on all notes and telephone encounters (ideally at the end of clinic, but can be done at your convenience).

Parking Information

Questions? Contact Us!

Thank you so much for your service to this community! We can’t wait to learn from and work with you. If you have any questions, please reach out to SEVA's Student Leadership Bipasha Ray and Meehir Dixit.

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We are seeking UChicago undergraduate/gap year students to assist with a variety of clinic duties, such as language interpretation, community outreach, and other administrative tasks. At this time, we have the greatest need for volunteers who speak common South Asian languages. This is a great opportunity if you are a pre-health student interested in gaining in-person experience in a clinical setting. You will also have the unique opportunity to network with medical students and physicians from multiple institutions. If you would like to get involved, please send an email to the following addresses:Meehir.Dixit@uchicagomedicine.org and Bipasha.Ray@uchicagomedicine.org