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Questions on volunteering activities and timeline
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Addiction recovery and hospice are your two clinical experiences. Any shadowing? Any experiences in a setting where people are actively seeking care for physical ailments or seeking preventive services? (annual check-ups, well baby visits). I do see this as a gap that should be filled before you take on non-teaching volunteering.
Scheduled to begin shadowing next month and aiming to get 50+ hours before applying!
No experiences in a setting like that unfortunately. I didn't realize those experiences were also unofficially expected as I thought the hospice and addiction clinic hours were substantial, should I try to urgently try to get involved in something like that and quit the teaching job?
Edit: There have been times at my addiction clinic where I've had to assist patients undergoing very severe withdrawal symptoms (where they actively sought care). Would this matter at all as long as I conveyed it?
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My take is you should go for the non-clinical volunteering. Hospice and addiction recovery clinic, in my mind, are borderline - not strictly clinical, but better than nothing.
For what it's worth the teaching job as some might argue here is not sufficiently non-clinical service based (I.e. since you're coming from an area of "expertise"). So if you can afford it, I'd still consider quitting and seeking out something else in this realm
For what it's worth the teaching job as some might argue here is not sufficiently non-clinical service based (I.e. since you're coming from an area of "expertise"). So if you can afford it, I'd still consider quitting and seeking out something else in this realm
This honestly has me freaking out…so basically, potentially in the eyes of some adcoms I might as well have 0 clinical hours?? Would it be a good idea to delay another cycle then?
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It's not just the quantity of hours. I think you have a lot of exposure to patients in need, but I'm not sure about intake or routine care (noted already by LizzyM) where there are more doctors working IMO. Since most medical students and residents are trained in academic settings like hospitals, some coverage there will help you too.
If working in addiction rehab and hospice interest you, ask admissions representatives what they suggest. You might be okay, but it serves you to get the additional exposure because of the path you want to take.
