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A bit of background:
I spent about 8 months working on a sleep study. It would be just me and the patients for however long my shift was. I ran all of the tests, attached all of the wires, etc etc. It taught me a great deal about how to handle uncomfortable, sleep-deprived people, which from my other shadowing experience seems to come in handy when dealing with actual patients. I've heard other people refer to similar clinical research experience as actual clinical experience, but I've always thought of it as research experience... I was wondering if all of you fine people on SDN had similar experiences or thoughts on this. Does clinical research experience "count" as clinical experience?
I spent about 8 months working on a sleep study. It would be just me and the patients for however long my shift was. I ran all of the tests, attached all of the wires, etc etc. It taught me a great deal about how to handle uncomfortable, sleep-deprived people, which from my other shadowing experience seems to come in handy when dealing with actual patients. I've heard other people refer to similar clinical research experience as actual clinical experience, but I've always thought of it as research experience... I was wondering if all of you fine people on SDN had similar experiences or thoughts on this. Does clinical research experience "count" as clinical experience?