I’ve spent my entire summer volunteering at a physical therapy clinic and I realized it’s not something I’m really into career wise. Before going back to school, I’d be competing 70 hours.
I definitely want to stay in the pre-health (or pre-med) route, but I don’t know what I want to do exactly. I was just wondering, when I apply to programs unrelated to PT (for example, med school, nursing school, pharmacy, etc…) will those hours matter on my application?
I’m going in to my second year of undergrad and planning to volunteer in different areas until I find something that sticks
Well, it depends. If you are staying within the allied health fields, the hours will matter in the sense that it shows your interest in health. If you are applying for another program that requires hours within a very specific field, they won’t “matter” in that context.
Nobody’s expecting you to have it all figured out from jump, and if you can weave a good story about it then that’ll benefit you.
When I was going through PT in a good-sized clinic two years ago, the assistants that I spoke with were post-college interns looking to get experience for PT, LPN, PA, or medical schools. One of them had even done a prior rotation in a Veterinary Medicine clinic.
Agree with above. If you want to stay in the health field (nursing, med school, etc) it will help. If you end up wanting to go to grad school for biomedical research (i.e. Masters or Ph.D. in molecular biology, genetics, biochem etc) it will be a nice experience to add to your CV but not a requirement like research usually is.
