Applying without clinical volunteering...

[Howdydo25]

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[Catalystik]

I've worked full-time in a clinic for the past two years and have at least 50 hours of shadowing (though my physician had me do some work with her physicians assistant).

I've also done 500+ hours volunteering as a mentor and health educator for high school students.

I understand that a lot of people get valuable experience while volunteering in a hospital, but it seems like every hospital volunteer program that I signed up for didn't go beyond wiping beds and distributing blankets.

I can go on and on about the stories from my job or from shadowing and I feel like I've seen everything a volunteer would have seen, and more. So should I take the chance and apply? Or is it really just a lost cause for this cycle?

You'd have active clinical experience well covered if your clinic work dealt with a variety of patient types (not just botox injections in healthy, wrinkled folks, for example). Clinical volunteering is not a requirement. Did you interact with acutely ill and/or injured folks in any setting?

 

[LizzyM]

You have 4000 hours of employment in a clinic, 50 hours of shadowing and 500+ volunteer hours of service to HS students some of which were related to health education.
You have had exposure to patients in clinical settings and you've shown that you are altruistic by your volunteer service. Based on the shadowing, you know what docs do and you also have some insights into the role of the PA.
I'd say you are good to go.

 

[Howdydo25]

You'd have active clinical experience well covered if your clinic work dealt with a variety of patient types (not just botox injections in healthy, wrinkled folks, for example). Clinical volunteering is not a requirement. Did you interact with acutely ill and/or injured folks in any setting?

I'm interacting with injured and ill people. It's a free clinic so no botox here!

 

[Howdydo25]

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[Catalystik]

I'm interacting with injured and ill people. It's a free clinic so no botox here!

Then I totally agree with @LizzyM .