I’ve done volunteering hours during high school and soon will get more clinical experience in college. When applying for medical school do students just write how many hours they completed while applying… with whatever hospital? or doctor?
AMCAS and AACOMAS work on the honor system. Medicine is a profession that places a very high value on the honesty and ethicality of its practitioners.
On AMCAS/AACOMAS, each activity has the following listed
site name & address
start and end dates of the activity
number of total hours
description of the activity
name & contact information of a supervisor who can confirm the applicant’s participation.
You should know that activities completed during high school are generally not included on your application for med school.
But what if you have your name in a publication after assisting a psychiatrist with a research study?
Publications and major national awards are one of the 2 exceptions to the no high school stuff rule of thumb.
(The other exception is any activity started in high school and continued at the same site during college.)
S was a volunteer EMT in high school- lots of hours - and it went on his medical school application. I’m not aware of a restriction especially since the experience was directly related. He didn’t include other volunteer work from high school since the rest wasn’t medical in nature. But non-medical volunteer work in college was included.
And yes, it’s the honor system. Be aware that when you interview, anything you put in you application is fair game for discussion, so if you say you worked a lot of hours as a volunteer, you will need to be able to talk about it with a certain level of expertise and confidence. If you only did a few hours, it’s probably not worth mentioning in any case.