Clinical experience questions

[flybynight79]

Does volunteering in a senior day center at a hospital count as clinical volunteering?
The members have cognitive impairments. I've been volunteering at two centres: one for moderate-severe members and the other for mild impairments. The problem is that they're not referred to as patients.

Spoiler: description from the website

Services and Activities
The Day Centre offers a variety of services and supports to promote independence, provide stimulation and to encourage social interaction. These include:

• Escorted round-trip, door-to-door transportation within a large catchment area
• Diet-controlled, full-course, hot, kosher lunch and snacks served by program staff
• Comprehensive multi-lingual psychosocial, physical, cultural and spiritual activities designed and implemented by the Therapeutic Recreation team
• Creative arts program with opportunity for artistic expression designed and implemented by the Creative Arts Specialist
• Counselling, support , case management, and education for clients and their families provided by Social Workers
• Health promotion and disease prevention activities delivered by Nursing
• Medication administration provided by Nursing
• Eating assistance and toileting provided by Program Aides
• Access to (hospital's name) services including ambulatory clinics, Seniors Counselling and Referral, Seniors Support Program, Psychiatry program and Brain Health Centre
• Respite for caregivers

Day Centre #1
Serves older adults with physical frailty, as well as seniors with mild cognitive impairment. This program provides stimulation and a renewed sense of independence for isolated or lonely community dwelling older adults.

Day Centre #2
Serves older adults with moderate to severe cognitive impairment in a secure environment. In partnership with the Brain Health Centre Clinics, it also provides specialized programs and environmental support to meet the individual needs of those living in the community with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) or frontal lobe disturbance. The FTD program includes behaviour management techniques and clinical rounds with a medical team.

Should I find another role for clinical experience? Or should I complete the entire year here?

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[venacava.]

it depends on the school you're applying to. if you are working directly with people in a hospital then yes that is considered clinical usually, but some schools may not agree if it's not paid, you're not providing medical care, etc.

 

[Goro]

Does volunteering in a senior day center at a hospital count as clinical volunteering?
The members have cognitive impairments. I've been volunteering at two centres: one for moderate-severe members and the other for mild impairments. The problem is that they're not referred to as patients.

Spoiler: description from the website

Services and Activities
The Day Centre offers a variety of services and supports to promote independence, provide stimulation and to encourage social interaction. These include:

• Escorted round-trip, door-to-door transportation within a large catchment area
• Diet-controlled, full-course, hot, kosher lunch and snacks served by program staff
• Comprehensive multi-lingual psychosocial, physical, cultural and spiritual activities designed and implemented by the Therapeutic Recreation team
• Creative arts program with opportunity for artistic expression designed and implemented by the Creative Arts Specialist
• Counselling, support , case management, and education for clients and their families provided by Social Workers
• Health promotion and disease prevention activities delivered by Nursing
• Medication administration provided by Nursing
• Eating assistance and toileting provided by Program Aides
• Access to (hospital's name) services including ambulatory clinics, Seniors Counselling and Referral, Seniors Support Program, Psychiatry program and Brain Health Centre
• Respite for caregivers

Day Centre #1
Serves older adults with physical frailty, as well as seniors with mild cognitive impairment. This program provides stimulation and a renewed sense of independence for isolated or lonely community dwelling older adults.

Day Centre #2
Serves older adults with moderate to severe cognitive impairment in a secure environment. In partnership with the Brain Health Centre Clinics, it also provides specialized programs and environmental support to meet the individual needs of those living in the community with Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) or frontal lobe disturbance. The FTD program includes behaviour management techniques and clinical rounds with a medical team.

Should I find another role for clinical experience? Or should I complete the entire year here?

It does for me

 

[drducky.]

Should be considered clinical experience by most adcoms. I've had one interviewer that didn't consider my hospice volunteering clinical since I wasn't touching/treating them.

 

[glassesvar]

Should be considered clinical experience by most adcoms. I've had one interviewer that didn't consider my hospice volunteering clinical since I wasn't touching/treating them.

SMH. How do the expect a PREMED to touch and treat patients??? Some people really have ridiculous requirements.

 

[PunjabiBoy1993]

Unrelated but I love MBV hahah

 

[LizzyM]

SMH. How do the expect a PREMED to touch and treat patients??? Some people really have ridiculous requirements.

If you become a EMT-B or a patient care technician, you might touch/treat patients. But, I agree, the requirement is difficult for traditional pre-meds. It is more common for non-trads and people seeing admission to physician assistant programs.