Medical Volunteering

[Catalystik]

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For one of my 15 experiences, I am doing a catch-all for the remainder of my volunteer experiences.

I plan on including 32 hours of volunteering in my local hospital emergency room and 15 hours of misellaneous community service projects that I did during my time in my allied health schooling.

My question is two-fold.

1. Is it ok to combine these activities into one section even though the dates are a year apart and they are not related?

2. Could/Should I include in this section hours of different volunteering activities through my church? I have helped quite a few neighbors and friends of neighbors move houses. I have also helped clean up a few yards of elderly people in my church community.

Side note, I do have a sustained volunteering activity with around 100 hours that I started in February of 2018.

Thanks for the advice!

1) It would be best to keep medical and non-medical volunteering separated. Is it an option to tack the hospital volunteering onto another suitable activity space?

2) The 15 hours of community service and the church-related activities (minus helping friends move, which is not community service) could go together fine. You'd need separate Contacts to validate the activities.

3) If you don't need the above hours of volunteering to be highlighted, because you have plenty in both categories otherwise, you could make a catch-all space under the tag "Other" rather than "Community Service" and make the title something like Miscellaneous Community Volunteering and then it could all go in one space, including the clinical hours.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

I'm not a big fan of the lagniappe that encompasses multiple experiences; the application format really doesn't favor this. You have 14 other experiences and having a grab-bag as the final one seems pretty desperate. I would want each of the 15 experiences to show an interesting facet about what experiences influence me as a health care provider and not as a collection of things I did off my experience checklist.