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Hi everyone,
My freshman year, I worked as an EMT-B the entire year for about 12 hours/week. I volunteered in a hospital but that was for a research project and involved interacting with attendings/residents/nurses/etc more than with the patients. I've heard that some schools prefer that you get clinical experience in a hospital so you can see the doctor-patient relationship and experience the hospital setting... or something like that. So as of now, I feel as if I don't have any actual "clinical" experience. Does shadowing count as clinical experience? I've also heard that some schools consider shadowing to be too passive of an experience to be truly clinical.
So what IS clinical experience? I haven't shadowed a doctor yet and I was planning on shadowing an ER doctor because that's where my interests lie, but I'm a little concerned that when I apply to medical school (I'll be applying for entrance for Fall 2014, so not for a while now) my application will look weak in terms of clinical experience.
Thanks in advance for any advice/comments.
My freshman year, I worked as an EMT-B the entire year for about 12 hours/week. I volunteered in a hospital but that was for a research project and involved interacting with attendings/residents/nurses/etc more than with the patients. I've heard that some schools prefer that you get clinical experience in a hospital so you can see the doctor-patient relationship and experience the hospital setting... or something like that. So as of now, I feel as if I don't have any actual "clinical" experience. Does shadowing count as clinical experience? I've also heard that some schools consider shadowing to be too passive of an experience to be truly clinical.
So what IS clinical experience? I haven't shadowed a doctor yet and I was planning on shadowing an ER doctor because that's where my interests lie, but I'm a little concerned that when I apply to medical school (I'll be applying for entrance for Fall 2014, so not for a while now) my application will look weak in terms of clinical experience.
Thanks in advance for any advice/comments.