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Unfortunately, long term commitment is what adcoms are looking for - but I understand where you are coming from. Explain your situation to the volunteering services office and see if they will make an exception for you.
The other option is to find something else (non-clinical) to do - volunteering with a church group, at a homeless shelter, soup kitchen, etc.. It's okay if you don't spend your summer volunteering at a hospital, so long as you are bettering yourself as a future applicant and aren't eating cheetos and playing playstation at home
The other option is to find something else (non-clinical) to do - volunteering with a church group, at a homeless shelter, soup kitchen, etc.. It's okay if you don't spend your summer volunteering at a hospital, so long as you are bettering yourself as a future applicant and aren't eating cheetos and playing playstation at home
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Hospitals make an investment in you when you volunteer because it costs them to train you on safety and privacy issues, test you for TB and do a criminal background check of some kind. You could be honest that you can only volunteer for a month but that you'd be willing to be a full-time volunteer (35-40 hours wk) for 4 weeks and that might make it worth their effort. If it is near home and you'd be available over winter break and at other times when the usual volunteers might be on vacation, that might help, too.
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If you have your CNA/First Aid/BLS, some basic medical training, or EMT look for summer camp medical tent, or outdoor festival medical tent volunteer gigs. You can get a lot of hours in a short time.
Alternatively, if you worked as a live-in caregiver, you could get a lot of hours. Sometimes care givers take vacations on the summer so you could sub in for someone. You can advertise yourself on care.com, Craigslist, or call around to various home health, hospice, or case management agencies. Helping a sick, dying, or handicapped person in their home is a very intimate, often difficult experience and would not only be a lot of hours but a top quality experience.
Hospital volunteers often don't actually have much patient contact and doing a bunch of hours sitting around the hospital sounds like it could be super boring.
If you don't have your CNA or EMT, just spend that month taking a training course to get it. That will open up a lot of doors for you or future opportunities and really help you get your feet wet in the medical field to make sure you want to be in it.
Good luck!
Alternatively, if you worked as a live-in caregiver, you could get a lot of hours. Sometimes care givers take vacations on the summer so you could sub in for someone. You can advertise yourself on care.com, Craigslist, or call around to various home health, hospice, or case management agencies. Helping a sick, dying, or handicapped person in their home is a very intimate, often difficult experience and would not only be a lot of hours but a top quality experience.
Hospital volunteers often don't actually have much patient contact and doing a bunch of hours sitting around the hospital sounds like it could be super boring.
If you don't have your CNA or EMT, just spend that month taking a training course to get it. That will open up a lot of doors for you or future opportunities and really help you get your feet wet in the medical field to make sure you want to be in it.
Good luck!