Jablynskinian
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Hey I have a serious question, I have very limited non-clinical volunteering. Like 60 hours, and it was 2 years ago. I’ve been volunteering for 4 hours a week for a year at my local hospital, and about a year and a half more for 2 hours a week. I also happen to work at another nearby hospital as an MRI tech.
I’ve never done my clinical volunteering to get health care exposure, it’s always been to help the less fortunate. Hell, I help the less fortunate every day as an MRI tech, it’s one of the reasons I enjoy my job. Not like I need clinical hours, I have 4000 so far. It’s my full time job. I don’t even know if I’d consider my clinical volunteering very clinical either. I cuddle babies in the NICU and pass out tea to inpatients at night. Only thing clinical about it is it’s happening in a hospital. I’m getting suggestions that I should do non-clinical volunteering to beef up my app before I apply in June. I just don’t see the point. Am I out of my mind in thinking that my actions demonstrate altruism? I feel like the selfish and thus less altruistic thing to do at this point would be to quit my clinical volunteering to do non clinical volunteering simply to have it. What do you think? Do I feed the adcoms BS or do what I enjoy???
I’ve never done my clinical volunteering to get health care exposure, it’s always been to help the less fortunate. Hell, I help the less fortunate every day as an MRI tech, it’s one of the reasons I enjoy my job. Not like I need clinical hours, I have 4000 so far. It’s my full time job. I don’t even know if I’d consider my clinical volunteering very clinical either. I cuddle babies in the NICU and pass out tea to inpatients at night. Only thing clinical about it is it’s happening in a hospital. I’m getting suggestions that I should do non-clinical volunteering to beef up my app before I apply in June. I just don’t see the point. Am I out of my mind in thinking that my actions demonstrate altruism? I feel like the selfish and thus less altruistic thing to do at this point would be to quit my clinical volunteering to do non clinical volunteering simply to have it. What do you think? Do I feed the adcoms BS or do what I enjoy???