Hi, I am a freshman in high school and was wondering what the best clubs to join are for a student who wants to become a doctor.
Just join the clubs that interest you. Med Schools will admit you based on what you do in college (and not where you went to college.) Following your interests and becoming a well rounded person and a good person will go a long way. Good luck and best wishes!
volunteer at a hospital or other place where you will get patient contact. Experience in such a setting is an unwritten requirement for admission to medical school, so you might as well start now. Other health-care training programs such as physical therapist or physician assistant often explicitly require a set number of hours to be eligible for admission.
It would be smart of you to get such exposure now. Not just as a head-start, but to find out if the career is a fit for you. A few hundred hours of patient contact later you will not be in danger of ending up like the Bio teacher I had in HS who earned a nursing degree only to decide she didn’t like being around sick people.
Agree with mikemac. Clubs are good for any reasons, but they don’t expose you to the professison or the realities. Med clubs are hs kids, usually just talking about med hopes. But do go for math-sci activities.
Completely agree with the above posters, but if you really want a high school club to join/found, HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) would definitely be a club to look into - it’s a competition structured similarly to FBLA or Science Olympiad, but with events centered around medical fields.
Thank you so much for your input! I don’t believe we have a HOSA, but I could look into starting it for my school.
Before starting any club, learn what it’s really about.
In general starting a club is no tip. It’s the range of what you do, related to your own goals, and the math-sci ECs. And then other ways you engage.