...trying to find some decent clinical experience. I'm starting to think there is no such thing. I started volunteering at a hospital in May, and it's all right (i.e. everyone's nice and so forth) but there really isn't enough work for me to even go and stay there for two hours once a week. So I sent out about twenty letters to various doctors offices offering to volunteer for more exposure to the medical field this summer. Nada. So I started calling clinics. One place responded and was SUPER excited about me volunteering there but they A) are privately run and B) only do drug tests for large oil companies. Even though they would have been happy to have me the whole point of clinical experience is to have a little more exposure to medicine and thus telling people to pee in a cup all day long doesn't seem like the best route, so I declined them. Plus the whole privately run walk-in clinic thing made me skeptical. I dunno, it's just weird to me. So THEN I contacted one of the free clinics here in town and while they're always taking volunteers they again, do not really have enough work to go around. I started in medical records and there isn't even enough filing to be done to justify me staying for more than an hour or two every time I go. Which can only be once or twice a week as that's all they're open. During which there isn't even really enough chart work for me to be busy 20% of the time. Urg.
I know what everyone's thinking: volunteering is mostly useless for a lot of applicants anyway, you have to be proactive if you want do anything, try EMT, Medical Assistant, etc. etc. I know that whole song and dance. I'm not expecting to be actually doing much meaningful work here. I'm just trying to find a place that will actually have a need for someone to help them with the small things!
And while EMT and Medical Assistant programs are a great way to go I just honestly don't have the means or the inclination to spend six months in school learning either of those skills. Ugh ugh ugh. I'll call some more clinics tomorrow, I guess!
I know what everyone's thinking: volunteering is mostly useless for a lot of applicants anyway, you have to be proactive if you want do anything, try EMT, Medical Assistant, etc. etc. I know that whole song and dance. I'm not expecting to be actually doing much meaningful work here. I'm just trying to find a place that will actually have a need for someone to help them with the small things!
And while EMT and Medical Assistant programs are a great way to go I just honestly don't have the means or the inclination to spend six months in school learning either of those skills. Ugh ugh ugh. I'll call some more clinics tomorrow, I guess!
