Cognition vs Basic Clinical Pre Health Skills

[Ashlee24]

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Cognition:
Pros: Its an actual class with exams, detailed lectures, etc
Cons: Psych based, 3 times a week, exams

Pre Health Skills:
Pros: They teach you about taking patient history, ekg, you diagnose standardized patients, interpret EKG's, go over basic life support for health care providers, work with professors in the COM, a lot of basic things, listed on the university's classes to take for pre-med students.
Cons: relatively simple class, I don't know if medical schools will shrug at the class

My History: Work (I have bills!), I am taking Human Morphology and Function along with the lab that I feel will take up a lot of my study time when I am not slaving away at work.

I just want to know which would look better and why. Thanks!

 

[AspiringERMD]

Boy, I would have loved to take a clinical skills class as a pre-med...

I'd say go with number 2 not because of how it will look to adcoms, but because everything you learn will actually be relevant in medical school.

 

[Doudline]

Lectures 3x a week? 😵 Are you in high school or something?

Either way, I'd say Cognition. You'll have time to learn clinical skills in medical school.

 

[Holmwood]

Lectures 3x a week? 😵 Are you in high school or something?

Either way, I'd say Cognition. You'll have time to learn clinical skills in medical school.

2-3 lectures a week is common in state universities now although I don't know about the OP. Blame funding.

Pre-health skills may substitute for the experiences you will get shadowing, albeit way better. If you don't want to sound like a clueless pre-med during interviews, I guess the second one will be better.

As for which ones LOOK better, no clue~ Why cognition? Is it one of your major requirements?

 

[Ashlee24]

Cognition is a major requirement but I was worried about taking that class/working and taking a difficult class like human morphology with my schedule. I'm getting a second degree so I can do things on my own time. I mentioned lectures being 3 times a week in that I also work so I wanted a class that would be twice a week so I can dedicate a day to make up for studying that I can't do during the week because I work so much and because I am already taking a difficult class as it is. I thought the clinical class would be easier on my schedule but not something that would be completely useless.

 

[Aerus]

Lectures 3x a week? 😵 Are you in high school or something?

Either way, I'd say Cognition. You'll have time to learn clinical skills in medical school.

Wait, how is it done at your school? :O

I was under the impression that, in college, you attend a certain class a few times a week and that this was the norm. In high school, I had classes every day 7am-4pm.

 

[allantois]

Lectures 3x a week? 😵 Are you in high school or something?

Either way, I'd say Cognition. You'll have time to learn clinical skills in medical school.

3 credit hours (at least at my school) correspond to 3 hours in class so 3 times by 50 minutes or 2 times by 80 minutes.

 

[allantois]

Cognition:
Pros: Its an actual class with exams, detailed lectures, etc
Cons: Psych based, 3 times a week, exams

Pre Health Skills:
Pros: They teach you about taking patient history, ekg, you diagnose standardized patients, interpret EKG's, go over basic life support for health care providers, work with professors in the COM, a lot of basic things, listed on the university's classes to take for pre-med students.
Cons: relatively simple class, I don't know if medical schools will shrug at the class

My History: Work (I have bills!), I am taking Human Morphology and Function along with the lab that I feel will take up a lot of my study time when I am not slaving away at work.

I just want to know which would look better and why. Thanks!

It sounds like you go to my school based on the name of classes. Basic skills sounds great but was in fact pretty useless. Take introduction to pre-professional studies instead.

 

[Ashlee24]

I spoke to a professor in the COM and he said clinical skills is fine. I have a lot of shadowing time in and I also work at a pediatric clinic so I wanted to actually get some hands on things done. Maybe we do go to the same school 🙂

 

[Ashlee24]

It sounds like you go to my school based on the name of classes. Basic skills sounds great but was in fact pretty useless. Take introduction to pre-professional studies instead.

I spoke to a professor in the COM and he said clinical skills is fine. I have a lot of shadowing time in and I also work at a pediatric clinic so I wanted to actually get some hands on things done. Maybe we do go to the same school 🙂