Importance of Clinical Work

neom3x11
Sat, 30 Apr 2005 19:01:33 +0000

While I think hospital volunteering is important, it is by no means the most important thing in the application process. I was never able to do any research, and I only volunteered at a hospital for one summer - the summer before I applied and was accepted into Northwestern’s HPME. Thus, exposure to the hospital environment is only needed as a means to gauge whether the applicant knows what he/she is getting into. Therefore, it’s not the length of the hospital volunteering that counts, but the quality of it, in other words, how you benefited from it.

Good luck!