Good enough for clinical experience

[postbacpremed87]

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* 2 years of Hospice and Palliative Care Patient Volunteering - go to community clinics and spend one on one time with hospice patients (managed patient load of 1 to 4 patients, visited weekly, for 2 years)

* Clinical Research Volunteer - go into physician's offices and recruited patients for clinical research studies ( 3 days a week, 5 hours each day, for 2 months).

* Clinical Research Intern - recruit patients, draw and process blood samples to be analyzed for the clinical research study (full-time for 3 months)

* 100 hours of Orthopedic Surgery shadowing ( Every Wednesday morning surgical load (7:30-12) for almost 4 months)...some holidays in between

* 150 hours of Internal Medicine/Pulmonology shadowing (Every Friday morning for 6 months) *** Recommendation from this physician

* I have my EMT Basic license but was not able to use it because most of the agencies in my area wanted full time EMT-Bs. I view it as a positive experience, even just the class, because it exposed me to the healthcare profession.

 

[rHinO1]

Seems good enough to me. Although, you didn't list hours.

 

[LizzyM]

Very sweet. Nice mix of service and shadowing. You've served others and seen what it is to practice medicine with a little clinical research scut thrown in. 👍

 

[Catalystik]

Your clinical experience and shadowing both look fine to me.

 

[Atlas Shrugged]

Your clinical experience and shadowing both look fine to me.

It's posts like this that scare me. I only have about 200 clinical volunteering hours over the course of a year (through the clinical care extender program) and 25 hours shadowing an emergency medicine doc.

I'm a second year/sophomore and also work 30 hours a week, but I don't feel like that is much of an excuse to not have "fine" extracurriculars like the OP.

 

[apumic]

It's posts like this that scare me. I only have about 200 clinical volunteering hours over the course of a year (through the clinical care extender program) and 25 hours shadowing an emergency medicine doc.

I'm a second year/sophomore and also work 30 hours a week, but I don't feel like that is much of an excuse to not have "fine" extracurriculars like the OP.

You're doing fine. Keep it up and get some research in there.

 

[Frazier]

Man, OP, you got feedback from LizzyM and Cat in the same thread. Rest easy tonight. 😀