Same work- Internship or Non-Clinicial Volunteering

[SquigglyQ]

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Hello,
A couple weeks every year for the past 4 years I helped prepare and host an event at my country's embassy. It involves informing guests about the country, serving food, teaching the tribal dances, translating, etc.

It's completely unpaid and I might be considered an internship, but would it be possible to consider this as non-clinical volunteering? I need a bit of help in that EC and the cycle opens in a few weeks.

If I keep it as an internship, would this be worth keeping on my application, or is it pretty useless?

 

[LizzyM]

This is not going to substitute for a non-clinical volunteering gig that helps the needy. That's pretty much a requirement to demonstrate that you like to help people in need.

Preparing and hosting an embassy event could be labeled "leadership" if you have had a role directing others at the event. Otherwise, it might be best labeled "other".

 

[SquigglyQ]

Thank you very much!

You appear to be the queen of SDN, so could you let me know what your stance is on splitting a clinical experience up that includes clinical, non-clinical, and shadowing? Weirdly enough, the strongest proponent of it has been a member of my UG SOM's adcom, but small sample size.

 

[LizzyM]

Thank you very much!

You appear to be the queen of SDN, so could you let me know what your stance is on splitting a clinical experience up that includes clinical, non-clinical, and shadowing? Weirdly enough, the strongest proponent of it has been a member of my UG SOM's adcom, but small sample size.

So you list 3 activities in the experience section. All, I presume, are in the same location. All have approximately the same start/end dates. Maybe or maybe not they have the same contact person. One would be shadowing. That's pretty obvious, you shadowed Dr. __ and Dr. __ and observes x, y and z. How do you split clinical and non-clinical? If there were specific days you were assigned to the gift shop, that is very much "non-clinical" and you could split that away from days spent in a clinical setting rather easily. However, if you are trying to split the time you spent making coffee and stocking shelves in the emergency department from the time you spent speaking with patients there then it is best to bundle all the time you spent in the emergency department and calling the whole thing "clinical".