 What's up, YouTube? Today we are back for another video and back by popular demand We are joined with my wife, Andriana again. Today We're going to be talking about volunteer and shadowing experience for pre-mez and pre-PAs so Let's get into it. Hit it Today's video is sponsored by my good friends at Motivate MD. For those of you who will be applying to med school and PA School and looking to improve their personal statement Motivate MD has an amazing personal statement review service That's customized for every single person at a price point students can actually afford. 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So before we get into our tips on how to obtain shadowing and volunteer experience We figure we share what we did as pre-meds and pre-PA students. So I guess I'll start I Did a couple of different things as a pre-med the first thing I did was volunteer in a level one trauma center in a large Intercity hospital for those of you who don't know what a level one trauma center is. It's essentially a Hospital that gets the worst of the worst traumas. I'm talking gunshots Game fights motor vehicle accidents motorcycles You know construction injuries the worst of the worst go to level one trauma centers There's a tear from like the level one to level four being like the most Non-urgent stuff level ones the top of the top and that's where all the traumas go That's all you need to know So my main job as an ER volunteer was to basically clean the beds and get them ready for the next patient because it was a Constant flow of patients coming in this intercity ER. We had to keep the structures clean I've spoken about this in a few other of my videos But as a volunteer in that ER I was able to kind of go wherever the heck I wanted to I would clean a few beds and then I would venture off into the trauma bays and watch the new trauma come in or If someone was wheeled in through a terrible motor vehicle accident or gain fight I would just follow them to the trauma bay and just check it out it was kind of a way for me to be exposed to a ton of different facets of medicine and Really with no Real direction. I can kind of just do what I wanted So I was able to be exposed to a ton of different stuff while working in the ER I would actually go there about once or twice a week and sometimes on a Saturday night because that was when Everything went down. The other thing I did as a pre-med was shadow a neurosurgeon It was a neurosurgeon at a local hospital near my house and he focused mainly on spine surgery He allowed me to shadow him and pretty much any OR day he went into and I could see any surgery I wanted to it was a fantastic experience So those were my experiences as a pre-med now it's time to get over to Andrew on his experiences Alrighty, so I also did two experiences, but as you all know, I had that unique situation where I did PA school and undergrad all in Four years. I went to St. John's University Everyone has been asking so that's where I went. It's located in Queens, New York So if you know that you're gonna be a PA in high school then apply there and by the way This is a Queens, New York accent not Staten Island like some of you guys are saying so despite me going to that combined program they still required the actual shadowing experience before entering the PA school part, which is the last two years of your college So for my first experience, I was working as a therapeutic activity assistant in a children's hospital local that was local in my area and There I was working with the outpatient children, but I was able to shadow a PA in the inpatient unit And there I pretty much worked with all children with mental and physical disabilities. It was truly inspiring So my second experience was that I shadowed a PA at a local radiology suite there I observed her react to any allergic reactions that patients had to the contrast and She had a really flexible schedule, which was kind of nice and that's kind of what I liked for those of you who don't know Anytime there are MRI or CT standards running in the hospital There always has to be a provider whether it be a PA nurse practitioner or doctor on site because there's always that 1% chance that there Could be a reaction or anaphylactic reaction in which you would need a provider Right nearby right and then I also got to just observe the radiologist Read the study and they were explaining what each study does kind of like what you do to your for your students So so now we're going to get into the portion of the video where we give you guys tips on how to gain shadowing and volunteer experience So our first tip is to just ask it seems simple But everybody knows a doctor or a PA they grew up with All you have to do is just ask them if you have a primary physician Which you do a pediatrician Just ask them If you ask them in person chances are they're probably gonna say yes Yep, my brother's friend's wife was a PA and that's how I landed one of my PA shadowing experiences So really simple small world someone is always in the medical field Yeah, you always have a family member or a family member or a friend of a family member Who's a doctor or something? There's a lot of us out there. There's a lot of PA's out there Just ask someone knows somebody And I guarantee they'll help you out. Yeah as long as um the place is The place does allow volunteers because there's a lot of HIPAA violations So as long as the place allows volunteers, you're good to go Our second tip we have is to ask your peers and friends around you because everybody is in the same boat as you You're all pre-meds. You're all pre-PA students. So just ask your friends around you See where they're gonna go shadow. See where they're gonna get their hours Whether it be a friend that they may know or the friend that they may have That's actually how I found the spot with the neurosurgeon I worked with because one of the pre-med students that was in some of my chemistry classes Actually kind of set me up with this person. I was asking him what he's doing to help his med school application and He told me he was shadowing this neurosurgeon and he actually Gave me his email address told the doctor and kind of set it up for me and helped me out a lot Nice. Yeah, so it worked out. So just ask your friends. Everybody's doing the same thing as you So just ask our third tip is to call and email all local hospital volunteer services That's all they do. They set pre-PA and pre-med students with volunteer work Um, I know lots of urgent cares and lots of hospitals have medical scrubs that you could actually get paid to do um Yeah, there's I mean a lot of the websites for your local hospitals will actually list the section where it says like Volunteer services somewhere towards the bottom or whatever just email blast them or call them during business hours Tell them you're a pre-med or pre-PA student and you want to volunteer and they'll set you up with what path to get there I know my urgent care at one point they were doing the pre-PA students who were interested In shadowing a pa you just had to go through the human resources just to make sure everything was HIPAA compliant But there are a lot of opportunities out there Yeah, it's kind of a pain to go through all the paperwork and everything But once you go through that initial process You're pretty much in and you can kind of volunteer wherever you want in the hospital Our fourth tip is kind of a tip, but it's kind of what happens once you get all this experience going So once you are shadowing or working with a physician Oftentimes you'll be approached by their friends or colleagues and ask you if you want to shadow them as well So for instance when I was working with that neurosurgeon One of his urologist buddies came up to me in the OR one time and asked me if I wanted to see one of his surgeries And I literally just walked next door to the OR next to him and watched him So that's kind of how it works out same for me. I was in the outpatient program I worked a few times in the inpatient program came across the pa and I was asked to shadow her And that's how I made my connection there to be able to shadow a pa in the inpatient unit Yeah, so it's all about face time the more you're in the hospital and working with these clinicians and physicians The more offers you get so that concludes this video on premed and pre pa Shadowing and volunteer experience and our tips that I hope help you guys If you have any questions make sure you leave a comment below or if you want to see more of my wife and jernanna Let me know as well Otherwise go smash that like and subscribe button and follow dr. Cellini on instagram right here Okay Otherwise, we'll see you on our next video Oh, no, no As you know about the unique Take two Let's do that again. So I was there to clean the beds and get it ready from the bottom. Now you're here Okay You ruined that face four