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don't volunteer as a coder, that's not clinical.
pick a hospital or clinic nearby that has a web site, find their volunteer page, apply and get to work. 4 hrs a week minimum until you start med school. don't take yourself seriously as a med school aspirant until some vomit lands on you. also don't expect to do things that doctors do when you don't have any training. you earn the right to be in patient care areas by doing unskilled manual labor. usually premeds have hundreds of hours doing hospital or clinic volunteering. if you want to get paid, train to be an EMT or CNA. or phlebotomist.
use clinical experience to figure out what the doctors do and what everybody else does. pay attention and ask questions and think. get to where you can describe the job you want without using the word "doctor" etc. then think about whether you want to spend a minimum of 8 years (1+ for prereqs, 4+ for med school, 3+ for residency) and maybe a half million bucks to get to do the doctor job.
meanwhile take a class or two if you like, but don't quit your job before you find out what you'd be getting into. if/when you want to get the med school prereqs done and proceed, then choose one of the many ways to get more undergrad classes, such as taking classes a la carte, doing a 2nd bachelors, doing a structured formal postbac, etc. this part isn't hard.
best of luck to you.
pick a hospital or clinic nearby that has a web site, find their volunteer page, apply and get to work. 4 hrs a week minimum until you start med school. don't take yourself seriously as a med school aspirant until some vomit lands on you. also don't expect to do things that doctors do when you don't have any training. you earn the right to be in patient care areas by doing unskilled manual labor. usually premeds have hundreds of hours doing hospital or clinic volunteering. if you want to get paid, train to be an EMT or CNA. or phlebotomist.
use clinical experience to figure out what the doctors do and what everybody else does. pay attention and ask questions and think. get to where you can describe the job you want without using the word "doctor" etc. then think about whether you want to spend a minimum of 8 years (1+ for prereqs, 4+ for med school, 3+ for residency) and maybe a half million bucks to get to do the doctor job.
meanwhile take a class or two if you like, but don't quit your job before you find out what you'd be getting into. if/when you want to get the med school prereqs done and proceed, then choose one of the many ways to get more undergrad classes, such as taking classes a la carte, doing a 2nd bachelors, doing a structured formal postbac, etc. this part isn't hard.
best of luck to you.
