Clinical exp. hours questionss!

[anbuitachi]

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Hi i'm applying this cycle! but i'm lacking clinical experience! however i'm submitting application soon and i was wondering if i do more clinical after I submit, how do I let med schools know so they won't make me down for super low clinical experience? Also if i get clinical exp during the next semester, would that help a lot?

i actually tried to find clinical experience over major breaks but i couldn't find any hospital within 1.5 hrs away that accept volunteers so all I have right now is ~30 hrs of half volunteer/half shadow in doctors office and i worked in ER admitting department for 300 hrs but all I did that was patient contact was translating language... and occasional guiding patients..
i also worked in Mt sinai over a summer but that was in junior year of HS and i can't put it on!!! so sad!

 

[LizzyM]

Hi i'm applying this cycle! but i'm lacking clinical experience! however i'm submitting application soon and i was wondering if i do more clinical after I submit, how do I let med schools know so they won't make me down for super low clinical experience? Also if i get clinical exp during the next semester, would that help a lot?

i actually tried to find clinical experience over major breaks but i couldn't find any hospital within 1.5 hrs away that accept volunteers so all I have right now is ~30 hrs of half volunteer/half shadow in doctors office and i worked in ER admitting department for 300 hrs but all I did that was patient contact was translating language... and occasional guiding patients..
i also worked in Mt sinai over a summer but that was in junior year of HS and i can't put it on!!! so sad!

If you can smell patients, it is a clinical experience. Three hundred hours in the ER is great particularly if you were guiding patients an acting as an interpreter some of the time.

 

[organdonor]

300 hrs in an ER translating and doing other stuff isn't bad. Continue doing what you can and you can update schools with a letter. Have you already submitted? Under whatever section you put your ER time, just say x hours per week from x date until present. In the comments mention that you will continue to do it x hours per week until x date.

 

[anbuitachi]

I haven't submitted yet. Thanks to both of you for your helpful comments!!!