Does teaching patients in a clinic count as clinical volunteering?

[future_dr]

For starters, I'm a freshman and I've been doing a good chunk of this stuff since high school. Once a week I help teach a diabetes class, along with signing in patients, counting donation money, and even handing out medical equipment (needles mostly). I feel that because the patients are actively sick with a disease and I'm volunteering, and the class literally takes place inside a clinic, that this should count as clinical volunteering. Does it?

Volunteering in a hospital is important, but I can't do that while I have a job, volunteer in a soup kitchen, do my classwork, and shadow in a hospital. I guess my second question is: What exactly is considered "clinical volunteering" in the most basic sense.

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[efle]

You'd be hard pressed to sell it as volunteerism if you are getting course credits for it. Am I understanding correctly, that's what is going on? It's a class for credits that has you helping out in a clinic?

 

[future_dr]

You'd be hard pressed to sell it as volunteerism if you are getting course credits for it. Am I understanding correctly, that's what is going on? It's a class for credits that has you helping out in a clinic?

Noooo. I'm not sure if I misled you with something I typed but I'm definitely not getting anything out of this, except for hours I guess. So now would you call that clinical volunteering?

 

[efle]

Oh I gotcha, class as in the diabetes class you teach, not like a college class. My bad.

If you're spending unpaid, uncredited hours helping out in a clinic then yes! That is clinical volunteering.

 

[future_dr]

Oh I gotcha, class as in the diabetes class you teach, not like a college class. My bad.

If you're spending unpaid, uncredited hours helping out in a clinic then yes! That is clinical volunteering.

Ok. Thank you.

 

[777137]

Ok. Thank you.

On top of that, I think it is a really strong clinical volunteering gig. Much better than something like wheeling around patients and that sort of stuff, hopefully you're passionate about it, because if I was interviewing you I would definitely ask about it!

 

[Catalystik]

If you're spending unpaid, uncredited hours helping out in a clinic then yes! That is clinical volunteering.

I agree. Especially if you have some individual interaction with the patients you're teaching or "signing in."