Does clinical volunteering count as clinical hours?

[octy123]

Clinical volunteering is the main source of my clinical hours (350 hours + 50 shadowing + 150 as volunteer MA), but I am getting nervous because I see mixed opinions about clinical volunteering. My work is pretty patient focused as well. I room patients, answer their questions about logistics, explain patient histories to physicians when needed, and accompany our radiologist during rounds so I can help set up/observe ultrasounds. Does this count as clinical hours? I am a reapplicant and planning on reapplying this cycle.

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[Goro]

Absolutely. What medical schools want to see is that you have clinical exposure. This can be either through volunteering, or employment.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Let me help you with this. Read

https://www.aamc.org/media/23336/download?attachment

 

[octy123]

Absolutely. What medical schools want to see is that you have clinical exposure. This can be either through volunteering, or employment.

thank you! last time I applied, I had about 100 hours of this as my only clinical experience, and it highlighted more of the admin side of what I did rather than my more direct clinical exposure. Would I be fine reapplying now with these hours (~550) if I talked more about my direct patient care responsibilities? thanks!

 

[Goro]

thank you! last time I applied, I had about 100 hours of this as my only clinical experience, and it highlighted more of the admin side of what I did rather than my more direct clinical exposure. Would I be fine reapplying now with these hours (~550) if I talked more about my direct patient care responsibilities? thanks!

Yup!!!