Incorrect Volunteer Information on AMCAS!!

[kingjames15]

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So the week before I submitted my AMCAS app I began volunteering in the ER. In my orientation, the volunteer coordinator said I would be helping clean rooms, enter data into computers, check on patients, and stock supplies, and I put all those duties onto my application.

1.5 months later, the only duties that I am allowed to do is check on patients and make sure wheelchairs are available. I enjoy doing this somewhat, but lets be honest, it's REALLLY dry work. I'm trying to get a volunteer position at another hospital that will let me have duties similar to the ones I originally thought I was going to have so I can actually do what I said I was going to be doing.

So right now I'm in the middle of filling out secondaries and many the prompts ask what I am currently doing. I want to talk about my volunteering position at the ER, but when I am honest about my duties, I think it is going to seem like I was dishonest in the primary app. What do you guys think I should do??

 

[Morsetlis]

So the week before I submitted my AMCAS app I began volunteering in the ER. In my orientation, the volunteer coordinator said I would be helping clean rooms, enter data into computers, check on patients, and stock supplies, and I put all those duties onto my application.

1.5 months later, the only duties that I am allowed to do is check on patients and make sure wheelchairs are available. I enjoy doing this somewhat, but lets be honest, it's REALLLY dry work. I'm trying to get a volunteer position at another hospital that will let me have duties similar to the ones I originally thought I was going to have so I can actually do what I said I was going to be doing.

So right now I'm in the middle of filling out secondaries and many the prompts ask what I am currently doing. I want to talk about my volunteering position at the ER, but when I am honest about my duties, I think it is going to seem like I was dishonest in the primary app. What do you guys think I should do??

I guess you live in a metro area similar to where I was. I volunteered at 5 different hospitals, and in 2 of those I basically became the secretary's assistant. At two others I was stocking. At *one* of them I got to do fun/interesting stuff following the CNA/EMT's around and even got assigned to watch patients while the physician was too busy in the ER.

First of all, nobody is going to call the ER and ask to find your supervisor to ascertain exactly what you were doing.

However, if you exaggerate on the number of hours / etc those are easy enough to check. Finally, you want to be able to answer the question "what medical / clinical experiences did you have that made you want to become a doctor / make you a good potential doctor?"

 

[aSagacious]

So, you thought you would be: helping clean rooms, check on patients, stock supplies, and entering data into computers

But you are actually: check on patients and make sure wheelchairs are available

... those look pretty similar to me. Are you that eager to clean rooms? AdComs are well aware that undergrad pre-meds are not going to run into an ED guns blazing, you're just there to get a feel for the environment.

 

[CodeBlu]

So, you thought you would be: helping clean rooms, check on patients, stock supplies, and entering data into computers

But you are actually: check on patients and make sure wheelchairs are available

... those look pretty similar to me. Are you that eager to clean rooms? AdComs are well aware that undergrad pre-meds are not going to run into an ED guns blazing, you're just there to get a feel for the environment.

This.

 

[kingjames15]

This.

Haha thank you for the insight 🙂 I just don't want any adcoms to think I was trying to sauce up my application to look good. I guess I'll just save the in depth descriptions for the interviews hopefully I'll have volunteered at a hospital that lets me do a bit more.

 

[kingjames15]

So, you thought you would be: helping clean rooms, check on patients, stock supplies, and entering data into computers

But you are actually: check on patients and make sure wheelchairs are available

... those look pretty similar to me. Are you that eager to clean rooms? AdComs are well aware that undergrad pre-meds are not going to run into an ED guns blazing, you're just there to get a feel for the environment.

No not eager to clean rooms haha. Just want to be doing a little more so it doesn't get so boring