Medical Is volunteering with one organization better than several organizations for the same amount of overall time?

[Mr.Smile12]

Hello,

How problematic is contributing a modest number of hours to each of several organizations when the total number of volunteer hours meets or exceeds 150 clinical and 150 non-clinical hours?

Is volunteering for 170 hours with a single organization preferable to volunteering with multiple organizations for an equivalent number of hours?

Thank you.

I don't really understand your question. People are not productivity robots to be valued simply by the number of experience hours served or GPA's produced. "Modest number" is highly subjective, and one's circumstances of having just a modest number can widely vary.

Admissions officers all the way down to undergraduate level look at experience hours and try to figure out the level of commitment an applicant has made for each activity over time. So to calculate, 170 hours over 100 weeks (estimating 2 years here) is 17 hours a week of time, or almost part-time work if it's consistent.

For "preferable volunteering" you get into nuances of what your tasks were, the impact you made, and why it was important for you to do the work.

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[Mr.Smile12]

In my observations and analysis of applicants, a strong total number of hours is about 50 to 100 for committed activities. I'm not sure about hours over time but there is a difference between 100 hours over 1 year versus 4 years.