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You volunteer to help kids and their families while they enjoy "cost free vacations". I don't see anything about "patients". They are kids. They may be disabled but you are not carrying out their doctor's orders or working in the vicinity of clinicians when you help them enjoy their vacation experiences.

Call this non-clinical. If an adcom wants to give you extra points for working with the disabled, so be it but to call it clinical and be called out for it because you are not in a clinical setting is not a position you'd want to be in when your application is under review.
 
wildcherry said:
Hey everyone,

Just had a quick question about volunteering. I've been volunteering at Give Kids The World for the past few years and wanted to know what kind of volunteering it would be considered. My work consisted of serving handicapped children and making sure they had a sweet time at the resort. Would this count as clinical volunteering? I already have 1500+ hours of paid clinical experience and hundreds of hours of non-clinical volunteering.

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I think most would say just because they're handicapped doesn't mean they're patients. I'd consider it an awesome form of nonclinical volunteering and you already have a ton of clinical so not really a problem anyways.
 
wildcherry said:
Thank you for the reply. Is it alright if all my clinical experience was from a paid position? I have worked 1.5 years as a scribe. Do I need to have non-paid clinical volunteering as well? I would much rather continue volunteering at GKTW but I can volunteer at a local hospital instead if required.
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No. You need clinical experience. It can be paid or unpaid. You need service, preferably some that is non-clinical so it doesn't look as if the only service was "two birds-one stone" volunteer clinical experience. You seem to have the bases covered just fine.
 
LizzyM said:
You volunteer to help kids and their families while they enjoy "cost free vacations". I don't see anything about "patients". They are kids. They may be disabled but you are not carrying out their doctor's orders or working in the vicinity of clinicians when you help them enjoy their vacation experiences.

Call this non-clinical. If an adcom wants to give you extra points for working with the disabled, so be it but to call it clinical and be called out for it because you are not in a clinical setting is not a position you'd want to be in when your application is under review.
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I agree with my learned colleague. This type of work is highly admirable...not many people like facing mortality or serious vulnerability.
 
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