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[shouldibeadoc]

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I'm going to be volunteering as a tutor with an adult literacy center. I work in public health currently and do a little bit of health education as my job (maybe 10%). The adult literacy center offers regular classes just to teach general literacy as well as health literacy classes.

The health literacy class time works a little better for me and the organization seemed excited to have me for that but I feel like maybe it will be too much "health" focused stuff on my application.

When I applied to this I didn't know they had health specific literacy tutoring classes. I think both would be equally interesting to me (as ultimately it is still teaching adults reading skills in either class) but am not sure if I won't seem diverse enough. Or I could do the health focused literacy tutoring and just leave off that it was health-specific focused literacy on my app?

Do you all think the regular literacy tutoring is better than the health literacy one? I feel like because of my job it might seem like all my activities are too health focused.

My other activities on my app would be: 2 public health internships, college job, two semesters of volunteer after school tutor (not many hours at all, like 25), some vet related animal volunteering (not too much, from when I was considering vet career), ~ 80 or more hours of STI clinic volunteer, and some hospital volunteering. So obviously need more non-clinical volunteering

ALSO autocorrect messed up my title sorry lol

 

[shouldibeadoc]

Any ideas? Does it not matter that all my activities are health focused?

 

[Catalystik]

Any ideas? Does it not matter that all my activities are health focused?

I don't think it matters, but I think you'd get more out of teaching health literacy. You'll get a better idea of folk's lack of understanding of healthcare in general and failures in physician-patient communication. You might learn how to better share information with future patients and maybe even learn the "teach back" method.

 

[westbill]

I'm going to be volunteering as a tutor with an adult literacy center. I work in public health currently and do a little bit of health education as my job (maybe 10%). The adult literacy center offers regular classes just to teach general literacy as well as health literacy classes.

The health literacy class time works a little better for me and the organization seemed excited to have me for that but I feel like maybe it will be too much "health" focused stuff on my application.

When I applied to this I didn't know they had health specific literacy tutoring classes. I think both would be equally interesting to me (as ultimately it is still teaching adults reading skills in either class) but am not sure if I won't seem diverse enough. Or I could do the health focused literacy tutoring and just leave off that it was health-specific focused literacy on my app?

Do you all think the regular literacy tutoring is better than the health literacy one? I feel like because of my job it might seem like all my activities are too health focused.

My other activities on my app would be: 2 public health internships, college job, two semesters of volunteer after school tutor (not many hours at all, like 25), some vet related animal volunteering (not too much, from when I was considering vet career), ~ 80 or more hours of STI clinic volunteer, and some hospital volunteering. So obviously need more non-clinical volunteering

ALSO autocorrect messed up my title sorry lol

I think you should make your determination based upon what might best help you develop and grow your interpersonal communicative skills. Since it sounds like you have a significant background in health counseling, perhaps literacy tutoring would be a nice balance for you to experience.

 

[rmalia]

I think you should make your determination based upon what might best help you develop and grow your interpersonal communicative skills. Since it sounds like you have a significant background in health counseling, perhaps literacy tutoring would be a nice balance for you to experience.

I certainly don't know, but it does seem like it would be reasonable to not too closely mirror with your volunteering what you actually do occupationally.

 

[shouldibeadoc]

I don't think it matters, but I think you'd get more out of teaching health literacy. You'll get a better idea of folk's lack of understanding of healthcare in general and failures in physician-patient communication. You might learn how to better share information with future patients and maybe even learn the "teach back" method.

That's a good point. I sort of do that at work but maybe this will be more intensive.

I certainly don't know, but it does seem like it would be reasonable to not too closely mirror with your volunteering what you actually do occupationally.

Yeah I was thinking along the lines of that. It's not exactly the same as what I do but it's sort of in the same realm and wasn't sure if the admissions would like me to branch out