How do my EC's look?

[HopefulErDr]

So I'm getting closer to the application cycle coming up this summer and I was trying to see what else I should be doing!

So far I have
~300 hours scribing in the ED
~150 hours volunteering in the ED where I was a navigator (I took patients back, sometimes in wheelchairs, other times I cleaned and reset rooms if we were very busy, I also helped get those in the waiting room on the list to be seen)
-2 years as a lab assistant for microbiology (making media, helping teach labs, inoculating cultures etc)
-one semester (maybe 2 after the spring) as an anatomy lab assistant (helping dissect, set up practicals, teaching students, etc.)
-one semester as a peer mentor for incoming nursing students (2 classes)
-one semester of research (created a database of bacterial isolates collected over the past 4 years)

I know my biggest weakness of not having any non clinical volunteering and I'm trying to find ways to get some. It's just hard due to my college being in a rural area. Also, I don't have shadowing but I was wondering if scribing helped to fix that. I follow multiple physicians around in and out of patient's rooms taking histories and sometimes helping with simple parts of procedures (setting up, watching, handing supplies etc.)

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[NeurosciencePrincess]

I am not applying for medical school yet but from what I have researched I think that scribing does kind of make up for shadowing. I would just make sure you describe it in a similar way in your applications. Nonclinical volunteering is not something to stress over if you already have clinical volunteering experience.

 

[HopefulErDr]

I am not applying for medical school yet but from what I have researched I think that scribing does kind of make up for shadowing. I would just make sure you describe it in a similar way in your applications. Nonclinical volunteering is not something to stress over if you already have clinical volunteering experience.

Okay, I'm still going to try to shadow maybe 2 other doctors. I just didn't know if I should continue with my clinical volunteering or stop and start finding non clinical opportunities.

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[PapaGuava]

You have decent clinical experience, so if you wanted to reduce the amount of hours there and dip into non-clinical a bit, that wouldn't be a bad idea.

 

[HopefulErDr]

You have decent clinical experience, so if you wanted to reduce the amount of hours there and dip into non-clinical a bit, that wouldn't be a bad idea.

Do you think it would look like box checking 6 months from application time?

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[PapaGuava]

You serving as a peer mentor already is non-clinical in a way, so I mean if you were consistent during the 6 months and possibly a little after it wouldn't look like a box check. It won't push your application over the edge, It just depends if you really want to do it/enjoy it.

 

[HopefulErDr]

You serving as a peer mentor already is non-clinical in a way, so I mean if you were consistent during the 6 months and possibly a little after it wouldn't look like a box check. It won't push your application over the edge, It just depends if you really want to do it/enjoy it.

Okay, I had thought about trying to tutor science at the local high school, but I only think I could make it maybe 1 day a week.