Hi can someone give me some advise. I am currently taking my AS in clinical medical assistant. And I have been doing some volunteer work at my docotors clinic since I was a junior in HS. Like in my junior yr I did 2 mo's of volunteer and in my senior year I did about 2-3 mo's. And I am planning on going to a comm. college to start taking classes to prepare me for medical school.
I wanted to know exactly what type of volunteer work do medical schools look at when it comes to applying for addmission?? Like for the volunteer section I have experience in filing papers and being a receptionist helper.
And I am gonna be SOON doing clinical volunteering as a clinical medical assistant. Would my volunteer experience help me get into medical school along w/ the prep classes and test's I'm gonna be taking?? Should I volunteer at a hospital too?
Would it matter when it comes to applying to medical school like if they see that I had taken a 2 yr degree before going onto a 4 year degree
2006-12-16 17:33:42 · 4 answers · asked by gothic_lez 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
The volunteer work is great and may help you become familiar with clinical settings, but how well you do in a 4 year pre-med or biology college course is a lot more important. Why aren't applying to a 4 year college now?
2006-12-16 19:21:27 · answer #1 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lol.... you want to be a doctor and yet you have to ask if you should volunteer at a hospital. Don't doctors work at hospitals? The interview selection panel wants to know if you are the caring, compassionate type; not everybody is cut out to be a doctor; not everybody can cope with the demands of helping strangers get dressed in the morning or handling bodily fluids as part of your daily routine, particularly if your patients don't exactly appreciate your efforts, and many of them don't.
Any job is okay but, speaking frankly, you should really be looking at nursing when considering volunteering in something. Clinical work prepares you for a career as a biomedical scientist, not really medicine but it does help to a small extent. You will get plenty of science experience during your degree. You need to show other qualities to your personality.
I don't see the point of doing a 2, 4 and a medical degree on top of your post graduate training. A medical career is long enough without the addition of a 2 year degree. An excellent score on your 4 year degree will provide enough proof that you are capable of the intellectual rigors of working as a doctor.
2006-12-18 06:15:12 · answer #2 · answered by MrSandman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG! It takes a minimum of 8 to ten years of learn and then an internship in an emergency room! the price is gigantic, i'm particular lately it may run into thousands of thousands of bucks in practise and also you're making a piddly quantity as both an intern and at the same time as and in case you commence your own prepare for a number of years. The medical malpractice insurance value by myself USED to value $a million million and that develop into years in the past! it extremely is one reason healthcare expenditures are so severe, the medical doctors could safeguard themselves and they ought to pay that million dollar insurance one way or the different! after all, if you're desirous to develop right into a known practitioner, you want to first have a powerful skill in mathematics yet extraordinarily in chemistry from severe college onward and obviously, your grades should be as sturdy as they could probable be. you also could contact colleges (community first to lessen the prices the first 2 years for an AA/AS degree and get your effortless instructions out of ways) and their monetary help workplaces/counselors who promises you with a more beneficial precise idea of what the tutorial expenditures may be and the thanks to devise your tutorial and preparation direction in the route of your objective. you may opt for to pay for faculty by technique of operating as an EMT (Emergency medical Technician) or Paramedic for an ambulance employer that you'll do in case you're taking emergency study at your interior sight community college and may provide you with an idea of ways effortless medicine works and also you'll have some tangential interplay with ER medicine besides. that could prepare you somewhat on your upcoming ER internship. desire this helps.
2016-11-26 23:46:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
THis days they look ofr research experience ( bench work ) as well as experience working with minorities and high risk disease like aids or cancer
2006-12-16 19:21:04 · answer #4 · answered by U 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋