Clinical experience?

[EarnestlyWilde]

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A "does this count" question. Volunteering= working with kids with physical and mental disorders (e.g. cerebral palsy) by engaging in martial arts-based physical therapy.

This is in the context of an after school program, not a hospital so I feel like it might be no?

Thank you!

 

[LizzyM]

A "does this count" question. Volunteering= working with kids with physical and mental disorders (e.g. cerebral palsy) by engaging in martial arts-based physical therapy.

This is in the context of an after school program, not a hospital so I feel like it might be no?

Thank you!

You are correct! It is "volunteer, non-clinical" although you could certainly mention in your description of the activity how much it made you more comfortable interacting with chldren with mental and physical disabilities and whether you are more interested now in working with these populations (adults and/or children with disabilities) as a physician. You can learn a lot of skills that will be valuable as a clinician even if you aren't doing a "clinical" experience including patience, non-verbal communication, alternate means of communicating, and so forth. Sometimes people are patients and sometimes they are just people in their communities doing things people like to do. Experiential learning about the human condition can only serve to make you a better physician.