UCB, exactly. Think of every college kid spending the summer shadowing a physician and filing insurance claims in a medical office or hospital under the guise of “real life experience” who could be doing something else. I know a college junior who is spending the summer doing one of these administrative hospital jobs… his original idea had been to volunteer at a local hospice, but several med students he knows told him that this isn’t considered “medicine” (after all, the folks in hospice are all terminal and just getting morphine and fluids) so he’s stuck in the basement of a hospital with zero contact whatsoever with patients. I’m sure his title will be impressive but the actual job requires knowing how to alphabetize.
I just see the entire “I might not get into any med school but I’m giving it a try” industry as a waste of time, money, and energy. Creekland and I would probably find common ground in the transparency department…