<p>MD/PhD programs do not care about your clinical hours, for the most part. As long as you’ve had some experience, you’ll be fine. You need to be able to show that you’ve encountered doctors/medicine in a clinical setting, but ultimately your research and stats will be far more important. I would try and fit 50 hours of shadowing in and some clinical volunteering (100h is definitely sufficient)–but go ahead and apply this cycle provided your MCAT is good.</p>
<p>I wound up in a top MD/PhD program with 50 hours of shadowing and no clinical volunteering at the time of application (some hours during the application cycle)–and I forgot to put either of these on my primary app! I had to write to schools separately–so yeah, don’t have kittens over this. Ace the MCAT and apply early.</p>