Volunteer Question

[azdental89]

Im currently looking to volunteer to help build my application, is it vital to volunteer in a dental environment or do you feel that other health care environments should suffice as well like volunteering at a hospital? Thanks for your feedback.

 

[solstice]

Im currently looking to volunteer to help build my application, is it vital to volunteer in a dental environment or do you feel that other health care environments should suffice as well like volunteering at a hospital? Thanks for your feedback.

If you have shadowing and maybe a few months working experience in dental office, then volunteering can be done any where. It is volunteering after all. I had 0 dental volunteering and done all my volunteering in the hospital and they did not ask anything about it in any of my interviews. In fact I think it will be looked at positively, beacuse they know that you have been involved in other health care field and you are not just coming to dentistry blindly.

 

[Schwanz]

I was told by an adcom member that any volunteer work done helping people is good (ie. habitat for humanity) but that working in a community health clinic is even better. As long as your doing something it helps.

 

[angelnyc89]

Besides shadowing a Dentist and volunteering in a Dental setting, you can volunteer in your community: hospital, school, nursing homes, especially volunteering with the youth. That all looks good.

 

[azdental89]

Thanks for your input, greatly appreciated. Is there anyone in Arizona that knows where to volunteer ive called many places and still havent heard back yet..

 

[farinx]

there's a place called the CASS clinic in downtown phoenix. it's really hard to volunteer there. i tried emailing/calling them several times, but no one ever contacted me. the pre-health advisor at ASU said st. vincents has some sort of dental clinic that is in downtown phoenix, but i couldnt really find any info on it.