<p>Here’s my suggestion–</p>
<p>—find a summer job after your freshman year, one that involves personal contact with a wide variety of different types of people. (Ex. waiting tables, retail sales, counter work at a food sales outlet, summer camp counselor, etc). This gives you great exposure to the workaday world and a chance to develop/improve your interpersonal communication skills. (Talking to customers; talking with a boss. Both are skills that doctors need to have. Doctors call the former “patients” and and the latter “supervisors”. 
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<p>Since you won’t be working more than 40 hours per week, you can do some volunteering at a clinical site (hospital, nursing home, public clinic) and some physician shadowing when you’re not working. (You should shadow physicians in a variety of specialties, not just ortho.) Volunteering and shadowing don’t require a heavy-duty time commitment every day or even every week. </p>
<p>D1 worked as a full time life guard & swim teacher at a city pool; D2 sold gas and Slurpees in Yellowstone National Park. Both were fabulous experiences, but for very different reasons.</p>