Clinical Chart Review

[hopefulfuturemed]

Hi,

I've recently been doing medical chart reviews of cancer patients at my hospital to help identify certain secondary diseases developed as a result of therapy (in order to improve treatment outcomes for cancer patients). Even though I'm not interacting with the patients themselves, I am obviously gaining experience with reading medical charts, the patients disease prognoses and treatments, and medical care. Does this experience count as clinical exposure during for my medical school application?

Thank you,

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[rdyotz]

General role is thumb.: clinical if you can smell the patient

 

[ItAintEasyBeingCheesy]

No, this is research (clinical). It’ll be viewed as grunt work if all you’re doing is data collection. It’ll be received more favorably if you’re doing something cerebral like analyses or writing.

 

[aldol16]

Probably not clinical if you're not interacting with patients directly. It's better characterized as a research experience anyway.