Clinical Experience

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Does anyone know if riding on an ambulance as an observer is considered clinical experience?

 

[Ibn Rushd]

I would say it is, yes.

As LizzyM says, if you're close enough to smell a patient, it's clinical experience.

 

[slick27]

Just get your EMT-B in the summer and volunteer on a firedepartment. The EMT-B class you get done with in a summer and its not that hard. Depending on where you take it, it can be somewhat a lot of work (tons of busy work).

 

[Mobius1985]

A ride-along would be considered shadowing an EMT. It isn't clinical experience unless you contributed to the patient's care in some way.

 

[sarahl86]

Does anyone know if riding on an ambulance as an observer is considered clinical experience?

Looking at your MDApps, you seem to be pretty weak on the clinical experience side...I'd work harder to start volunteering in a hospital if I were you, at the very least. That way you can meet different docs to shadow too.

 

[LizzyM]

Does anyone know if riding on an ambulance as an observer is considered clinical experience?

It does pass the sniff test (please pardon the pun) but I wouldn't classify it as volunteer, clinical because as was mentioned, it is better classifed as "other" (shadowing) because you weren't really providing a volunteer service.