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What is the clinical experience that medical schools look for?
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If you can smell something that isn't normal and there is a patient nearby, that's clinical experience.
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LOL. Clinical experience = activities that brings you into contact with patients/physicians preferably interacting in a healthcare setting. i.e. volunteering in hospitals, physician shadowing...etc.
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Basically they're looking for evidence that you have some idea what you're getting into when you say, "I want to be a doctor."
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And by borrowed you mean stole.
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well, as long as he cites his source its ok
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Examples of clinical experience would be:
Working in a hospital as a CNA, LVN, RN, phlebotomist, patient transporter, IV tech, rad tech, ultra sound tech, lab tech, CLS, ER tech, EMT-B, etc.
Volunteering in hospital, free/community clinic, doctor's office, etc. as candy striper.
Working for a clinical research project as project manager.
And most importantly, shadowing a physician of any field and specialty for an extended period of time.
Working in a hospital as a CNA, LVN, RN, phlebotomist, patient transporter, IV tech, rad tech, ultra sound tech, lab tech, CLS, ER tech, EMT-B, etc.
Volunteering in hospital, free/community clinic, doctor's office, etc. as candy striper.
Working for a clinical research project as project manager.
And most importantly, shadowing a physician of any field and specialty for an extended period of time.
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my application would fall apart if it wasn't! i based my PS on ER 😀Would watching re-runs of ER suffice.
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If you are in a setting where clinical work is being done, you are getting clinical experience. Usually this means a doctor in the process of treating patients. There is a certain type of professional behavior that occurs in the clinical setting, and being exposed to that is a big plus on applications. Being exposed to the clinical setting helps you prepare for assuming that role yourself later on.
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I just thought that I add my opinion/experience.
I've been working in a pathology lab as a technician for over 1.5yrs; there are many residents/doctors/fellows that I work with face to face; there are no patients to be seen on the floor. I have been to two interviews, both state school, and they asked what type of clinical experience I had.
Initially when I started this job I thought this would count as my "clinical experience" for med school. The thing is, the interviewers would always ask then what kind of patient contact I had/if I had had any patient contact/shadowing experience. Then, I would talk about my other volunteer experiences.
(Smelling bad stuff isn't good enough if there's no patient. I smell surgically removed colons full of you-know-what almost every other day at work and still that wasn't good enough. =) haha)
My point is, if you're interested or your app seems to indicate that you're interested in primary care you have to make the assumption that interviewers are thinking "clinical experience = patient contact(literal)". Well, at least that was the impression I got. So from my experience if you were in constant contact with patients then it should be good enough.
Hope this helped and good luck.
I've been working in a pathology lab as a technician for over 1.5yrs; there are many residents/doctors/fellows that I work with face to face; there are no patients to be seen on the floor. I have been to two interviews, both state school, and they asked what type of clinical experience I had.
Initially when I started this job I thought this would count as my "clinical experience" for med school. The thing is, the interviewers would always ask then what kind of patient contact I had/if I had had any patient contact/shadowing experience. Then, I would talk about my other volunteer experiences.
(Smelling bad stuff isn't good enough if there's no patient. I smell surgically removed colons full of you-know-what almost every other day at work and still that wasn't good enough. =) haha)
My point is, if you're interested or your app seems to indicate that you're interested in primary care you have to make the assumption that interviewers are thinking "clinical experience = patient contact(literal)". Well, at least that was the impression I got. So from my experience if you were in constant contact with patients then it should be good enough.
Hope this helped and good luck.
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I just thought that I add my opinion/experience.
I've been working in a lab as a technician for over 1.5yrs; there are many residents/doctors/fellows that I work with face to face; there are no patients to be seen on the floor. I have been to two interviews, both state school, and they asked what type of clinical experience I had.
Initially when I started this job I thought this would count as my "clinical experience" for med school. The thing is, after I answer with the lab tech job, the interviewers would always ask then what kind of patient contact I had/if I had had any patient contact/shadowing experience. Then, I would talk about my other hospital volunteer experiences. Also, I don't think volunteering abroad in an underdeveloped country counts either. I did that and didn't seem to have much effect on the clinical experience part either.
My point is, if you're interested or your app seems to indicate that you're interested in primary care you have to make the assumption that interviewers are thinking "clinical experience = patient contact(literal)". Well, at least that was the impression I got.
Hope this helped and good luck.
I've been working in a lab as a technician for over 1.5yrs; there are many residents/doctors/fellows that I work with face to face; there are no patients to be seen on the floor. I have been to two interviews, both state school, and they asked what type of clinical experience I had.
Initially when I started this job I thought this would count as my "clinical experience" for med school. The thing is, after I answer with the lab tech job, the interviewers would always ask then what kind of patient contact I had/if I had had any patient contact/shadowing experience. Then, I would talk about my other hospital volunteer experiences. Also, I don't think volunteering abroad in an underdeveloped country counts either. I did that and didn't seem to have much effect on the clinical experience part either.
My point is, if you're interested or your app seems to indicate that you're interested in primary care you have to make the assumption that interviewers are thinking "clinical experience = patient contact(literal)". Well, at least that was the impression I got.
Hope this helped and good luck.
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Clinical research donen't necessarily involve patients. It sometimes involves contact with human subjects but confusing subjects with patients is a similar to subjects confusing clinical research with clinical care.
A clinical experience is one where you are close enough to smell (and touch) patients.
For the guy with the experience in the path lab, get someone to refer you to a surgeon or gynecologist who is sending those samples to the lab and spend some time shadowing so you can see patients and get to know their stores. I sometimes ask applicants about a memorable clinical experience and it tells me volumes about the applicant's point of view and their sensitivity to human suffering (or lack thereof).
A clinical experience is one where you are close enough to smell (and touch) patients.
For the guy with the experience in the path lab, get someone to refer you to a surgeon or gynecologist who is sending those samples to the lab and spend some time shadowing so you can see patients and get to know their stores. I sometimes ask applicants about a memorable clinical experience and it tells me volumes about the applicant's point of view and their sensitivity to human suffering (or lack thereof).
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Clinical:
concerned with or based on actual observation and treatment of disease in patients rather than experimentation or theory.
Experience:
knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone
Thanks dictionary.com!
concerned with or based on actual observation and treatment of disease in patients rather than experimentation or theory.
Experience:
knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone
Thanks dictionary.com!
What about as a Healthcare Tech in the Behavioral/Psychiatric Department? It's the only department that doesn't require a CNA or some serious clinical experience. On the phone, it didn't seem like anything the ER Techs do like vitals, sutures, etc. I just want to put my EMT-B license to use because I don't think it'll be of much value without any practice/use.
