What kind of volunteer work are medical schools looking for?

[yellowbird12]

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What kind of volunteer work are medicals schools looking for?

I heard that like a year of volunteer somewhere in the medical field is important..but should it be in the field you desire to go into, or does in not matter much as long as you are interacting with patients?

Where would you suggest I volunteer at?

 

[Bluvip]

The kind that is very ripped and can bench 315

 

[sliceofbread136]

The kind that is very ripped and can bench 315

No they look at your total. Less than 1000 need not apply.

 

[tryp]

I think that having it in your field of interest is just icing on the cake. I volunteered in a hospital for 2-3 years in high school and I mainly worked with nurses doing administrative tasks and various chores around the unit, and I came up fine. As long as you're around patients, you're probably good to go - most generic hospital volunteering will do.

I also spent many years volunteering on a sexual assault crisis line and that was a great experience that I talked about a lot during interviews, though that kind of work obviously isn't for everyone.

 

[Drogo]

What kind of volunteer work are medicals schools looking for?

volunteer work with hands on patient contact which=true clinical experiences

I heard that like a year of volunteer somewhere in the medical field is important..but should it be in the field you desire to go into, or does in not matter much as long as you are interacting with patients?

Seeing firsthand patient/physician interaction and what was already mentioned above are the key things

Where would you suggest I volunteer at?

Post op and the emergency center. Be upfront and state you want real patient contact. I get a lot of actual patient contact in the EC and I'll only do a little scutwork here or there to show I'm part of the 'team'. 😉

 

[yellowbird12]

Post op and the emergency center. Be upfront and state you want real patient contact. I get a lot of actual patient contact in the EC and I'll only do a little scutwork here or there to show I'm part of the 'team'. 😉

Thanks for the reply

 

[NCOldie]

I think that having it in your field of interest is just icing on the cake. I volunteered in a hospital for 2-3 years in high school and I mainly worked with nurses doing administrative tasks and various chores around the unit, and I came up fine. As long as you're around patients, you're probably good to go - most generic hospital volunteering will do.

I also spent many years volunteering on a sexual assault crisis line and that was a great experience that I talked about a lot during interviews, though that kind of work obviously isn't for everyone.

So, did you list your volunteer work from high school?
I volunteered at a hospital from the time I was 12 to the age of 18. Is it acceptable to list that?

I run a Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault hotline. How exactly did you talk about your experience? How did it come up in the interview? Did the interviewer just ask about it since it was listed under a volunteer experience? I am actually paid for doing this.

 

[tryp]

I listed volunteering from high school. I am in Canada though, and I am told that things are different here.

As to how I talked about it - obviously I didn't discuss any specific clients, but interviewers often asked about it - what was difficult about it, how did I like it, how did I handle the pressure, what did I think was the most important things I learned from it? And I discussed some general scenarios.