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Hey everyone..hope the application period is going well for everyone so far. I know one college I had taken two classes from in high school lost my transcript request and has backed my application up..ugh.
But anyway down to business with today's post. So I am in a predicament now, and I need to figure out what to do. I graduated in May and am trying to figure out my gap year plans. I have been working part time at a large regional hospital ER as a ED Tech for the last year. I get a great deal of clinical experience and patient care, in addition to working closely with the ER physicians who have also been following my progress of applying to med school. They all say that I have a great background for med school and that my clinical exposure is something they wish they all had before going to school. I have been offered a full time position at this hospital which would be about 38,000 a year with benefits. This is not a bull**** job either. Its a Level II trauma center and I do direct care with patients and am a member of the trauma team. Its a really cool job.
The dilemma is that I am also in the process of interviewing for a job at a big name medical school for a research assistant position. It would be a good job working in my undergraduate major. While I may not get the position, I was sought out by the assistant director of the lab who said based on my resume I was a good fit for the job.
So what would you do? Great clinical exposure, or take a job as a research assistant and give up the clinical job? I feel that schools would probably look more favorably on the research but I would hate to give up my clinical job because I love it. Opinions??
But anyway down to business with today's post. So I am in a predicament now, and I need to figure out what to do. I graduated in May and am trying to figure out my gap year plans. I have been working part time at a large regional hospital ER as a ED Tech for the last year. I get a great deal of clinical experience and patient care, in addition to working closely with the ER physicians who have also been following my progress of applying to med school. They all say that I have a great background for med school and that my clinical exposure is something they wish they all had before going to school. I have been offered a full time position at this hospital which would be about 38,000 a year with benefits. This is not a bull**** job either. Its a Level II trauma center and I do direct care with patients and am a member of the trauma team. Its a really cool job.
The dilemma is that I am also in the process of interviewing for a job at a big name medical school for a research assistant position. It would be a good job working in my undergraduate major. While I may not get the position, I was sought out by the assistant director of the lab who said based on my resume I was a good fit for the job.
So what would you do? Great clinical exposure, or take a job as a research assistant and give up the clinical job? I feel that schools would probably look more favorably on the research but I would hate to give up my clinical job because I love it. Opinions??