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Is it really necessary to get much clinical exposure beyond volunteering at my campus hospital and shadowing a number of physicians? I hold an EMT-B certificate, but decided that it wasn't for me when I actually started volunteering on my local volunteer squad; so, I'm going to refrain from putting that on my application. Who cares about a EMT cert. if you don't actually use it? I want to start getting heavily involved in basic science research, and feel like that is going to take up a lot of my time outside of classes now. Do medical schools expect more clinical experience than the typical shadowing and volunteering? I've actually learned a lot doing those two things. I'd like to get some more clinical exposure, but can't really think of anything else I'd be interested in doing that doesn't require some sort of training that I don't have the time for right now.