Overseas Volunteering Verification

[1010btf]

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Hi guys, I am planning on going to China, halfway through August, and stay there until early September.

I am planning to meet a friend of mine, and he told me that he may be able to find me a volunteering position that I can do at a hospital in his town.

I was just wondering - Assuming i do end up volunteering there, do i need to have a paper from that hospital, proving that I volunteered there? Do i submit it in my application or something? Or show it on my passport or something that I went?

And, would med schools even look at this? I mean, I am not going to be in China for that long, so I will likely only have 1-2 weeks of volunteering... *sigh*

 

[1010btf]

bump...

 

[Beta Cell]

A letter of recommendation may do it but with only 1-2 weeks, it seems pretty futile. For a larger periof of time, I'd go with an LOR.

 

[silverhorse84]

You don't need any sort of verification, they're not going to ask for it. Med schools trust applicants not to lie. They might verify someone who claims to speak a second language by giving them an interviewer who also speaks it so they can talk in that language. But they can't verify your trip that way. No one asked me to verify my Kenya trip.

You can mention it in your primary application. There's a section where you put in activities outside of classes, so that can be one of those for you. Or, if it was really meaningful, you may decide to put it in your PS or secondary essays. It may come up in interviews, it may not. It came up in some, but not all, of mine.