Will working at clinics during covid/flu season look favorable?

[sammy16]

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@Goro @LizzyM @gonnif
Will working at a clinic as a scribe and seeing covid patients and volunteering as an EMT during the crisis look favorable to ADCOMs this year (2020-2021 cycle)? I live alone and I am not high risk, but working and volunteering near covid patients is giving me a lot of anxiety. I've continued working throughout when our clinic had a shortage due to people quarantining themselves after seeing covid patients. Trying to determine if its even worth it anymore.

 

[Goro]

Yes. How is this even a question???

 

[sammy16]

Yes. How is this even a question???

@Goro I didnt mean to state the obvious or anything, but it can sometimes feel like the struggle isnt worth it when I'm not hearing back anything from schools yet.

 

[Goro]

@Goro I didnt mean to state the obvious or anything, but it can sometimes feel like the struggle isnt worth it when I'm not hearing back anything from schools yet.

Patience is a virtue oh, the need for instant gratification is not.

 

[EdgeTrimmer]

Yes. How is this even a question???

May be the question is will adcoms differentiate between service during pre-Covid and Covid periods?

 

[Goro]

May be the question is will adcoms differentiate between service during pre-Covid and Covid periods?

I won't. I don't believe that med schools will cut people slack for the ECs due to COVID with the exception of shadowing (maybe) or having a clinician LOR (in the DO world).

 

[EdgeTrimmer]

I won't. I don't believe that med schools will cut people slack for the ECs due to COVID with the exception of shadowing (maybe) or having a clinician LOR (in the DO world).

I guess I am not asking it properly either 🙂 Will you give an edge to candidate who volunteered during the pandemic?

 

[sammy16]

I won't. I don't believe that med schools will cut people slack for the ECs due to COVID with the exception of shadowing (maybe) or having a clinician LOR (in the DO world).

@Goro So this means that working during the covid crisis won’t be looked at favorably, just that not doing it will be looked at unfavorably?

 

[deleted1025488]

I guess I am not asking it properly either 🙂 Will you give an edge to candidate who volunteered during the pandemic?

Why would they get an edge? Lot's of premed students are eager to volunteer but are simply unable to due to restrictions and continued lockdowns. If I lived in the state below me, I would be able to be racking up clinical hours "during a pandemic" while at the moment there is no physical way I could possibly be getting clinical hours where I live. Free clinics aren't even taking volunteers, not to mention hospitals or scribes. Additionally, many people can't even volunteer right now in the first place due to health and safety concerns (either themselves or family are old/immunocompromised).

With that being said, I still found ways to help during COVID remotely/with minimal contact through volunteer work. It's definitely not clinical, per se, but if I get looked negatively for this then I guess it was meant to be.

 

[sammy16]

@Goro I know you’ve previously said that you think of EMTs as glorified ambulance drivers. Will this be looked at somewhat differently this cycle?

 

[Goro]

@Goro I know you’ve previously said that you think of EMTs as glorified ambulance drivers. Will this be looked at somewhat differently this cycle?

I believe so.