Volunteer services that will help me stand out (I'm a pre-med)?

Question

what are some volunteer services that can help me stand out for medical school application? Thank you.

Answer 1

Take several months and become an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician). I have been a volunteer EMT for 26 years and still going. I run a 12 hour shift with my local ambulance company.

It will give you a perspective on providing medical care that you will never see in a hospital setting. Providing care in the streets, on the farm, in the dark, mud, snow, and rain, away from the controlled setting of a hospital. These is no room to work in a crushed car, but you do it anyway. Most doctors never know what it is like to make a "house call", we still do.

When you walk into a house, you see relief in the patient's and family's face. "I am very scared, I don't know what is wrong with me, but the EMT's are here to help me. They will take care of me."

This is real medical care. As a first responder, you are the beginning of the health care chain. The "boots on the street" can make all the difference in the outcome.

You cannot beat the satisfaction you get knowing you made a difference. The rewards are simple, a handshake, a big hug, a thank you, but you can't contain the feeling in a football stadium.

It may or may not help your medical school application, but you will be a better doctor, and a better person for it.

Good luck.

PS - I am a professional geologist, but I do this to make a difference.

Answer 2

Any volunteer work in a hospital would help. I was able to work in the lab summers while I was undergrad and the hospital experience was useful. I do interviewing now for a college and one thing I look for is experience in the area of choice. It shows you are really interested in your choice of major.

Answer 3

one is volunteer at hospitals or you can volunteer for the Red Cross. Nursing homes also need volunteers

Answer 4

Volunteer to be a live specimen for a surgical school.

Answer 5

do some work in a morge