Thank you both for your kindness and advice. I just wanted to clarify some points about my research assistant position that I poorly explained in the first text entry. In this position, I do have a good bit of one-on-one experience with patients. This includes doing office visits with patients for one of our registry studies, for which I am the main coordinator. In these visits, I do wellness checkups, administer study questionnaires, answer any study related questions the patient has, and report back to the physician after the visit. Additionally, I also participate in office visits and procedures for our phase II and III trials. I do many of the same tasks described in the registry study, as well as escorting patients to their study-related labs and evaluations and shadowing study procedures. I made sure to talk about these experiences in detail in my applications. Regardless, I will continue to add to my clinical and volunteering experiences moving forward. Being out of university has allowed for more time to pursue these activities, and I am very excited to do so. With that being said, I have contemplated becoming either an EMT through my county's program or a surgical tech at my current job (there is an in-house training program), in addition to starting hospice volunteering next month. Would either of those options be wise, given my current stats/position? Thank you again for your time.
