Volunteer Opportunities for Physicians, Registered Dieticians, and Other Healthcare Professionals If you are a physician or other healthcare professional, there are a number of ways you can volunteer to help PCRM promote healthy nutrition and ethical research. 1. Become a PCRM spokesperson.
If you are a physician or registered dietician, you can become a PCRM spokesperson. We frequently need experts to give presentations, speak at press conferences, and give interviews to TV, radio, and print news outlets. PCRM also needs physicians, registered dieticians, and other healthcare professionals to work with us in writing letters to the editors of newspapers all over the country. If you are interested in helping us, please contact communications@pcrm.org or 202-686-2210, ext. 330. Media training is available. PCRM is offering an upcoming media training in Washington, D.C. For more information, please contact communications@pcrm.org or 202-686-2210, ext. 330. 2. Lend your expertise in comments to research bodies.
There are opportunities for physicians to testify at the open meetings of the National Institutes of Health and other research bodies. By letting us know your specialty, we can contact you to testify at the appropriate hearing. If you are interested in helping us, please contact communications@pcrm.org or 202-686-2210, ext. 330. 3. Testify at federal and state legislative hearings.
There are opportunities for physicians and other healthcare professionals to testify at federal and state legislative hearings. Please let us know your specialty and the best way to reach you so we can contact you to testify. If you are interested in helping us, please contact communications@pcrm.org or 202-686-2210, ext. 330. 4. Review research papers.
We can use the expertise of physicians and registered dieticians in interpreting research publications in various specialty areas. If you are interested in helping us, please contact communications@pcrm.org or 202-686-2210, ext. 330. 5. Recommend us to your colleagues.
We are happy to contact your colleagues, provide them with literature, or involve them in other ways. For more information, please contact communications@pcrm.org or 202-686-2210, ext. 330. 6. Subscribe to PCRM Online.
PCRM's monthly newsletter is the best way to stay up-to-date on the work we are doing. Subscribe to PCRM Online. 7. Distribute PCRM health brochures to your patients and colleagues.
You can obtain our health and nutrition brochures and our Vegetarian Starter Kit by contacting literature@pcrm.org or 202-686-2210, ext. 346. Leave these materials in the waiting room or examining room for patients to read, or hand them out to colleagues at conferences and meetings. The first 50 Vegetarian Starter Kits you order are free. 8. Stock your waiting room with PCRM’s nutrition books.
Help spread the word about healthy vegetarian diets by stocking your waiting room or examining rooms with books by Dr. Neal Barnard or books from our Healthy Eating for Life Series. Our books can be purchased online. Or, place your order by contacting literature@pcrm.org or 202-686-2210, ext. 346. 9. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper or to a medical journal.
See an article about nutrition or ethics in research in a newspaper or journal that you’d like to respond to? Send a letter to the editor—and send us a copy if you get published! Use our letter writing tips to get started. Make sure to mention your credentials. 10. Make your cafeteria vegetarian friendly.
If your hospital or workplace has a cafeteria in the building, you can help make your cafeteria a healthier place for you and your patients to eat. Start by politely asking for more meat-, egg-, and dairy-free foods, such as veggie burgers, bean and rice burritos, stir-fries, soymilk, and nondairy ice cream. You just might get what you ask for! Encourage your cafeteria director to contact Veg Advantage, a national consulting group that helps foodservice professionals add healthy dining options to their menus. Show your appreciation! Thank your cafeteria for offering healthy, delicious, vegetarian food. 11. Contact medical schools that continue to use live animal labs.
While 85 percent of medical schools in the United States have replaced inhumane live animal labs with modern and humane alternatives, about two dozen medical schools continue to use live animals to teach basic concepts in human physiology, pharmacology, and/or surgery. If your local universities or alma mater are on this list, please write school officials to express your concerns about these crude exercises. 12. Ask Ohio State University to cancel its spinal cord injury techniques course.
Also known as “Cruelty 101,” this inhumane course requires participants to expose the spinal cords of mice and rats and systematically injure them by major surgery and blunt trauma. More than 200 animals will be injured and killed during this course. Please contact OSU officials at the addresses below and urge them to replace this cruel teaching method with more effective and humane alternatives. See our letter writing tips for advice on writing these officials. If you are an OSU graduate, please join our boycott by contacting research@pcrm.org or 202-686-2210, ext. 335. Jacqueline C. Bresnahan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Basic Research
Department of Neuroscience
The Ohio State University
4190 Graves Hall
333 W. 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
bresnahan.1@osu.edu Karen A. Holbrook
President
The Ohio State University
205 Bricker Hall
190 North Oval Mall
Columbus, OH 43210-1357
Fax: 614-292-1231
holbrook.79@osu.edu
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