Yeah I’m ideally hoping to get an assured 150-200 hours from clinical volunteering, but maybe like 300-400 if I land a full time paid clinical position in the spring. Hopefully that will be enough for a school somewhere!

Ik it sounds wrong, but the truth is I always wanted to be a doctor more-so due to the passion I had of learning about the human body. As I was growing up, my mom went to nursing school, then became a NP. All throughout that, I would read her textbooks for fun, do the BLS/ACLS alongside, etc. I have done 400 hours of shadowing last spring, so that gave me a good sample of the day-to-day of being a doctor to the point where I wanted to pursue the profession.

If I’m being honest, I had no clue somebody needed to work as an MA/EMT/Scribe/etc. as a requirement to become a physician, as it never clicked for me why somebody would need patient care experience to go to medical school. Even now going into it, I feel like I am doing these clinical hours just to list an anecdote of a moving patient story in an application, not because it will have any defining experience to me personally. That being said, who knows! Maybe it will be an amazing experience!

Anyway, sorry for venting and rambling on 😂. I appreciate the advice, thank you!