Get involved

There is real work here, and students do it

Sympify is not a club that meets and disperses. Members ship code, curate medical reference data, run research evaluations, organize events and raise funds — and earn volunteer hours for it.

Join the team

Sympify runs three departments. Members contribute real work in one of them, and earn volunteer hours for it.

What's involved

Research — work on the condition and symptom data, contribute to research projects, and help evaluate how the system behaves.
Technology — front-end and back-end development, interface and content design, report generation, and testing.
Business — chapters and clubs, fundraising, partner relationships, social media, and documentation.
Open to students interested in healthcare, research, computer science, design, business, public relations or law.

Apply to join

Updated August 2026

Start a chapter

Run Sympify at your own school or in your own community. Chapters fundraise, run local outreach, recruit members, and raise awareness of diagnostic error.

What's involved

A constitution template is provided to help you set the chapter up.
Chapters earn credits that convert to funding when the chapter requests it — 500 credits for starting a chapter, and 100 credits for every 10 additional members brought in.
Requesting funds requires documenting what the money is for and the community impact it supports.
Chapter responsibilities: fundraise, run local outreach, recruit members, and educate your community about diagnostic error.

Start a chapter

Updated August 2026

Research with us

Contribute to research on diagnostic error and on how the Sympify system itself behaves — with mentorship from working researchers.

What's involved

Work spans the symptom concept graph, retrieval evaluation, robustness testing, and the diagnostic-error literature.
Research at Sympify is held to explicit standards: claims must be backed by a generated artifact, and clinical-accuracy claims are not permitted.

Apply for a research opportunity

Updated August 2026

Internship program

A program for dedicated members to shadow and learn directly from Sympify’s executive members — how a working nonprofit actually makes decisions.

What's involved

Interns observe real decision-making and strategic operations rather than club-level activity.
The goal is to prepare members to take on leadership roles, so the organization is sustainable beyond any one cohort.

Apply for the internship

Updated August 2026

Volunteer hours & service recognition

Members earn volunteer hours for their work, and Sympify participates in the President’s Volunteer Service Award program.

What's involved

Members receive a Member ID. When someone uses the application and enters that Member ID, the hours are attributed to the member who introduced them.
Sympify is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and reports being certified to issue President’s Volunteer Service Awards.

Apply for PVSA

Updated August 2026

Applications currently use Google Forms, which open in a new tab. Anything you enter there is handled by Google under its own terms, not by this website.

Pick one and start.

Most people who join Sympify start by filling in a single form and turning up to one meeting.

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