Is your MA job in the same department of the same hospital that you were a volunteer? If so, then I would group them, mark it as medical community service, and note in the description that you recently started getting paid and stopped volunteering.
If the MA job is different, then I would list both separately. The MA job explains why you stopped volunteering (although I'm a little unclear about why you can't keep volunteering) and will be a good conversation for interviews. I would mark the ER volunteer as being the most meaningful and not the MA job, since the MA job is so recent.
Thanks for the reply! Yeah, I work in the ED as well (same place as volunteering). Yeah, I did want to continue volunteering, but the charge nurse insisted that it's hospital policy to not allow volunteers to the same unit they work.
Hm. I didn't think about this before (sorry), but maybe i might put them separately, just because my ties with the ED aren't severed, and I don't really know how I would distinguish how i used to volunteer before, and now i work there have and have ACTUAL responsibilities . (for example, what would be the time frame? I almost feel like i'll be squishing in a bit...)
I think the plan is to put the two activites separately, and then write about the meaningfulness of the whole ER experience in the volunteer box, and put some segway into my reflections as an MA and the increased responsibilities and exposure I have in the ED. That way everything is a lot more discrete in terms of the activities, dates, etc.
Again, thanks for the reply-i think writing it out made me think of it a little differently.