How to talk about volunteer experience

[Doe22]

I have ~420 hrs of hospital volunteering. I was in patient transport in a cancer hospital for almost a year. I also volunteered in transplant unit and in an infusion center for another year and a half. I didn't get much hands-on experience while volunteering. How can I talk about it in interviews/ on applications?

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[differentiating]

I have ~420 hrs of hospital volunteering. I was in patient transport in a cancer hospital for almost a year. I also volunteered in transplant unit and in an infusion center for another year and a half. I didn't get much hands-on experience while volunteering. How can I talk about it in interviews/ on applications.

What did you get out of the experience? Did it have any impact on your interest in medicine? Why did you do these particular volunteering jobs? Those are the sorts of things I'd expect to hear about or would ask about in interviews, in addition to a description of what you did.

 

[993444]

Ask yourself these questions:

1) What did you learn about healthcare that you didn't know before?
2) What did interacting with patients teach you? How did you really change your perspective about healthcare after being with these patients?
3) How did you learn to approach patients in dealing with the reality of sickness? Why do you want to take the physician approach in this regard rather than the approach of a nurse, tech, or PA.

 

[Doe22]

What did you get out of the experience? Did it have any impact on your interest in medicine? Why did you do these particular volunteering jobs? Those are the sorts of things I'd expect to hear about or would ask about in interviews, in addition to a description of what you did.

Those are some important questions to think about! Thank you.

 

[Doe22]

Ask yourself these questions:

1) What did you learn about healthcare that you didn't know before?
2) What did interacting with patients teach you? How did you really change your perspective about healthcare after being with these patients?
3) How did you learn to approach patients in dealing with the reality of sickness? Why do you want to take the physician approach in this regard rather than the approach of a nurse, tech, or PA.

I think I have an answer for every single question of these, lol. Thank you!