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Which do you think is a better opportunity for the next year?
I have been a research coordinator for 1+ year already.
I have been a research coordinator for 1+ year already.
Thanks for the feedback! I should have said that my current position will be ending soon so I would be moving to a different department.Stick with the job you have and perhaps have the opportunity to grow. Everyone and his brother seems to be a scribe these days, it is the new EMT.
Thanks for the feedback! I should have said that my current position will be ending soon so I would be moving to a different department.
Look for a promotion from I to II or something given your year of experience. Try to get additional experience with patient/subjects or on the regulatory side (whichever you've done less of in the past). Clinical research is pretty important at academic medical centers and knowing what's involved and seeing how MDs who are PIs do things is an important experience.
Look for a promotion from I to II or something given your year of experience. Try to get additional experience with patient/subjects or on the regulatory side (whichever you've done less of in the past). Clinical research is pretty important at academic medical centers and knowing what's involved and seeing how MDs who are PIs do things is an important experience.
See if you can get some shadowing experience with a PI. Can you come in early or stay late or "shadow" on your lunch hour? Not just the patient care part of a physician-investigator's day (which you may see "on the job") but such things as the morning report with residents as well as Grand Rounds and other talks with continuing medical education (CME) credit.
Would I just do that using the repeat button?You can list future hours as well on AMCAS. This is a relatively new development over the past couple years compared with years ago.
I would not find it odd to have more future hours than completed hours unless you only started the activity in March or later of the year that you are making the application.
Haha uh oh, I've done most of my shadowing starting this March onward. Hopefully it doesn't look too, too bad! I was taking night classes/studying for the MCAT up until February and it took me a little bit to get things rolling.
How did you get as far as taking the MCAT without ever shadowing?? Use as a start date the very first date you ever shadowed, not just when you did "most" of it.
Why no love for scribing here? Personally, you actually get to work with the physician, pick their mind on the diagnostic process real time, and gain valuable experience in the healthcare note and billing atmosphere.
There's plenty of time to do that starting in M3 year. The goal now is to get into medical school and, frankly, physicians on adcoms don't use scribes but they do know clinical trials and have a respect for pre-meds who know how research is done in academic medical centers. I think that a pre-med, particularly one interested in academic medicine, is going to get further with clinical research experience than with a job as a scribe.
Is basic research not as advantageous then? Should I start looking for clinical research positions in lieu of my basic research position at my chem department in your opinion?
I already have ~1000hrs and a pub here and I apply in 1 year.
For those of you who ARE Clinical Research Coordinators.... did you guys need letters or references? If so, how many and do you think that's a crucial part of getting an offer?