<p>Im trying to find a couple of summer programs in something health-care related. However, the only thing i see in the hospitals are volunteering opportunities. </p>
<p>When people say they have interned at an hospital, how is it different from volunteering?</p>
<p>Why do some people say interned and other volunteered?</p>
<p>(Just really confused about that)</p>
<p>most interns at hospitals are actually people in med school getting paid. volunteering is just doing simple tasks at the hospital for community service hours.</p>
<p>but there are internship available for high school students. </p>
<p>How is that any different from being a volunteer?</p>
<p>I would imagine that an internship would involve some degree of specialization/skill and the intern is learning something. While a volunteer is just doing menial tasks for volunteer hours.</p>
<p>Most high schoolers are volunteers, but some hospitals have internship programs. The two terms are often used interchangeably these days even though they’re entirely different.</p>
<p>I have friends who have interned at the local hospital through a program at my school. Unlike volunteering, it’s more like shadowing a doctor, and for my school, you have to complete a portfolio to demonstrate “what you learned.”</p>
<p>i’ve shadowed a doctor before. (Is there anywhere to put that on the college application). Its not an internship right?</p>
<p>I don’t know if you can put it somewhere on your specific app but you can probably include it in your essay and discuss in detail how it impacted you</p>
<p>Shadowing a doctor is not an internship because you haven’t been officially “inducted”. haha. </p>
<p>But a lot of people put “shadowed a doctor” on their application.</p>
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<p>Not always, but it can be part of an internship. Doesn’t sound like yours was.</p>