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Alright,
currently i have been working (non volunteering) as an EMT for the past 5 months and i assume i will continue doing that or become a PCA. With that being said, i will have quite a good amount of pt. experience once i apply (about 2 years from now). I also am doing research in a cancer research lab (on pace to run own experiments, present, etc.) and am a research assistant in a brain injury psych lab (pt. interviews, more of a hospital setting exp./clinical exp than research exp.).
I do plan on stopping the psych injury lab at the beginning of the school year just because i've really got the most i can get out of it. So as of now, once school starts i plan on being in the cancer lab and working as an emt. However, i also got offered a position in another psych lab which would have me running magnetic brain therapies on pts. this would count as class credits so it would technically be considered research. I think it would be a great experience but i'm not sure it's be a great idea to take since i don't have many volunteer hours. currently i've only volunteered about 25 hours in a hospital and about 25 hours for the red cross. The magnetic therapy would be about 3hr/week for the next year, but i'm think maybe it would be better to volunteer at a free clinic or somewhere like that instead.
So... since i will already have a good amount of hands on pt. exp, should i start to volunteer or take the magnetic therapy spot instead? I honestly dont have time for both.
tl; dr... start volunteering (something i haven't done a lot of), or non-volunteer hands on pt. exp. (something i have a good amount of, but it is a great position that is offered)
Thanks guys
Edit: sorry for the somewhat misleading title!
currently i have been working (non volunteering) as an EMT for the past 5 months and i assume i will continue doing that or become a PCA. With that being said, i will have quite a good amount of pt. experience once i apply (about 2 years from now). I also am doing research in a cancer research lab (on pace to run own experiments, present, etc.) and am a research assistant in a brain injury psych lab (pt. interviews, more of a hospital setting exp./clinical exp than research exp.).
I do plan on stopping the psych injury lab at the beginning of the school year just because i've really got the most i can get out of it. So as of now, once school starts i plan on being in the cancer lab and working as an emt. However, i also got offered a position in another psych lab which would have me running magnetic brain therapies on pts. this would count as class credits so it would technically be considered research. I think it would be a great experience but i'm not sure it's be a great idea to take since i don't have many volunteer hours. currently i've only volunteered about 25 hours in a hospital and about 25 hours for the red cross. The magnetic therapy would be about 3hr/week for the next year, but i'm think maybe it would be better to volunteer at a free clinic or somewhere like that instead.
So... since i will already have a good amount of hands on pt. exp, should i start to volunteer or take the magnetic therapy spot instead? I honestly dont have time for both.
tl; dr... start volunteering (something i haven't done a lot of), or non-volunteer hands on pt. exp. (something i have a good amount of, but it is a great position that is offered)
Thanks guys
Edit: sorry for the somewhat misleading title!
