1) I just prepared injections--I'm not certified to give injections in the united states. Is that bad? Should I leave certain stuff out of my application or in an interview?
2) 290 hours of volunteering is what I calculated as the total of my volunteer experience. So that's the 180 hours of ASB which was a really rough estimation. I wasn't sure to include weekly club meetings or fundraising or anything like that.
3) a) Then I did 50 hours at an elderly center near my college. I mostly just talked and played games with the people who went there.
b) And then the 60 hours of volunteering in Peru at the health clinic.
4) My other clinical experience is definitely not volunteer based. It was either a) shadowing/b) research based.
1) You might want to describe the experience as helping the nurse prepare patients for injections.
2) On the AMCAS application, you will be asked to break down each volunteer application and choose a label of clinical or nonclinical, rather than lumping it all together. Shadowing is a separate category, which is NOT considered to be volunteering (sine you do it for your own sake, not for a patient's). TMDSAS does some things differently, and I will not comment due to less familiaruity with their system.
You would not include general meetings in the "volunteer" category if you label the AFB as volunteer. Fundraising efforts can be included.
3) a) So you only have 50 hours of face-to-face interaction with senior residents with whom you volunteered. That leaves you perilously short of US-based nonmedical volunteering where you interacted with the US people in need that you served. I suggest that would be an important area for you to work on before you apply. Organizing international trips is not going to get you a lot of points, when people in the US, in your own community, are in need and could use some help.
b) Was the Peru volunteering nonclinical, or did you interact with patients? You have to decide.
4) a) Shadowing is a passive observational activity and not really in the same category as active/helpful interaction with patients. They shouldn't be lumped together.
b) Whether a research experience is judged as clinical experience depends on whether the research subject is a current patient, and whether you are providing any benefit for their condition/adding results to their medical chart.
So your active clinical experience is what? 50 hours scribing + 60 hours in a Peru clinic (if you dealt with the patients) + what else (maybe from the internships + research)? Maybe you do need to get more.
Your shadowing appears to be from multiple sources. You'll need to pull those hours out from internships, etc and decide how many you have. What do you think?