For EC's so far, I currently have ~450 hours volunteering in my local hospitals ED (which I currently do four 8 hoursa week) and ~900 hours volunteering at a Nursing and Rehabilitation Home (however it's all from HS so I don't even know if I can count that when I apply) and I'm in my school's Chemistry Club. That's it.
I know I need a bit more. As for shadowing, I cold called about 50 places and just got a bunch of no's or "sorry we don't do that here". My regular physcian said I could shadow her for a day but that's only 8 hours... don't most schools want like many hours at one place? I tried asking doctors who work in the ED where I volunteer but most of them wouldn't even answer me..... they have very little time/patience there for volunteers. I kind of feel like I hit a brick wall on the whole shadowing thing....
So what more should I do at this point? I recently contacted Hospice and they said they have a training coming up in January if I'm interested in that. I also contacted The Red Cross however the only volunteer position they have available at the moment is a crisis on-call person which means that for a week every three weeks I'd be responding to crises in the area.... I don't know how that helps me for Med School and I can't really leave class or work to go and help with some crises I'm underqualified to help with anyway.
Any suggestions about other places I should contact/what other EC's I should be considering getting involved with to better myself for Med School?
I know I need a bit more. As for shadowing, I cold called about 50 places and just got a bunch of no's or "sorry we don't do that here". My regular physcian said I could shadow her for a day but that's only 8 hours... don't most schools want like many hours at one place? I tried asking doctors who work in the ED where I volunteer but most of them wouldn't even answer me..... they have very little time/patience there for volunteers. I kind of feel like I hit a brick wall on the whole shadowing thing....
So what more should I do at this point? I recently contacted Hospice and they said they have a training coming up in January if I'm interested in that. I also contacted The Red Cross however the only volunteer position they have available at the moment is a crisis on-call person which means that for a week every three weeks I'd be responding to crises in the area.... I don't know how that helps me for Med School and I can't really leave class or work to go and help with some crises I'm underqualified to help with anyway.
Any suggestions about other places I should contact/what other EC's I should be considering getting involved with to better myself for Med School?
