Scribing for a parent

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[DingoPingo]

It would be clinical volunteering. Clinical volunteering counts as clinical experience.

 

[nwts]

On your application they won't have one section where they ask you to list out your clinical experiences and another where they ask you to list out your clinical volunteering with a possibility of some activities appearing on both lists. Instead, they will ask you to list out your experiences one by one and classify each from a drop down menu. For an experience like this, you classify it as clinical volunteering and that means that it is both counted as a volunteer experience and a clinical experience.

I hope this helps!

 

[gyngyn]

Isn't there anyone else you can scribe for besides your Mom?

 

[ortnakas]

Scribing for a parent is weird but probably fine.
Double dipping won't work though.

 

[DocJuan]

Can you get a letter of eval from a parent who was also your supervisor?

I'd say that's more along the lines of clinical experience rather than volunteering but I could be wrong. Technically your providing a service for your parents/the doctor and not the patients. But I guess you could say that by helping your parents with documentation while they worked, patient wait time was reduced.... hmm

 

[Crayola227]

Can you get a letter of eval from a parent who was also your supervisor?

I'd say that's more along the lines of clinical experience rather than volunteering but I could be wrong. Technically your providing a service for your parents/the doctor and not the patients. But I guess you could say that by helping your parents with documentation while they worked, patient wait time was reduced.... hmm

it's fine to list clinical activities with your parents

however, trying to have them write you an LOR or any such thing is a really bad idea
no one is going to trust any eval from a relative

 

[satyr.ickle]

no one is going to trust any eval from a relative

Especially not someone who is related to you

 

[DocJuan]

no one is going to trust any eval from a relative

My thoughts exactly. Not that one should ever go into anything strictly for a recommendation, but kind of seems like a waste to get such valuable clinical experience from doctors who can't support your application.