Choosing Clinical Experience?

[whosehousedawgshouse]

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Hello everyone!

I'm looking to start getting involved in a clinical experience next school year but am not certain which one to choose yet. I've been following a few threads on SDN and it seems to me that CNA, EMT, or scribe would be some great choices. Can I get some sort of comparison (in terms of patient/nurse/physician interactions, time commitment, etc.) between the three to consider? I'm interested in primary care and will be shadowing a physician soon. I'm most likely looking for something that is around 10 hours per week.

Any insight will be greatly appreciated!

 

[Pooker_]

I think you'll have a hard time getting a clinical job for 10 hours a week. You may be better off looking at some volunteer options at your local hospital.

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

It’s gonna be easier to convince someone to let you work for free. Of course if you find someone who’s gonna pay you, then that’s infinitely better

 

[Mistasunshine]

As a volunteer Emt you can probably do one shift per week ~12 hours depending on the squad. It's gonna be very hard/impossible to find part time scribing for that amount of hours per week in my experience.

 

[MedScat]

I think the best clinical experience is being an EMT. I am not one yet all my friends who are one benefitted because 1. they got clinical experience and 2. being an EMT gives a great head start to understanding parts of medical school. And I had friends do one 12 hour shift a week. Scribing I think is like 20+ hours. If you dont want to be an EMT, I'd suggest shadowing.