Clinical Hours

[ajh1995]

I keep seeing people on SDN talking about clinical hours. What exactly do you do during this time? Do you get paid or is it volunteer work? Do you do this clinical work with the type of doctor you aspire to become or is any field okay?
Anything else you can add would be appreciated.

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[On Eagle's Wings]

The point of clinical work is to get experience in the health care field and see what being a doctor is about. Medical schools want to make sure you know what career you are getting yourself into. Any field of medicine (as long as it is with an MD or DO) is fine; it certainly helps if you get your clinical experience in a field you desire to get into. There are both paid and non-paid experience. Paid is usually medical scribing, medical assistant, or other low-paying medical job. Non-paying would be hospital internship, hospital volunteering, shadowing... What work you do depends on the job you get (or are assigned).

 

[ciestar]

The point is interacting with patients and figuring out if you want to be around them your whole career. It can be paid or unpaid.