compiling a list of patient experiences to take to interviews?

[avandreel]

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I heard this recently from a 'friend of a friend', so I'm taking it with a grain of salt. still, i thought i would see what others thought or had heard.
Supposedly, this person who was just admitted to DMU claims that one of the deciding factors of her acceptance this year was compiling a list of the different patients and their conditions from her training as an emt-b. i have to assume she didn't include names or any other overly revealing details. she apparently brought this compilation to her interview, and impressed the interviewers. i have never heard of doing this, figuring that any kind of experience related info would already be in one's application and described through secondaries, etc. has anyone else heard of anything like this?? it seemed weird to me, but then again what do i know, i'm not applying until next year. 😕

 

[DoctorMom78]

I heard this recently from a 'friend of a friend', so I'm taking it with a grain of salt. still, i thought i would see what others thought or had heard.
Supposedly, this person who was just admitted to DMU claims that one of the deciding factors of her acceptance this year was compiling a list of the different patients and their conditions from her training as an emt-b. i have to assume she didn't include names or any other overly revealing details. she apparently brought this compilation to her interview, and impressed the interviewers. i have never heard of doing this, figuring that any kind of experience related info would already be in one's application and described through secondaries, etc. has anyone else heard of anything like this?? it seemed weird to me, but then again what do i know, i'm not applying until next year. 😕

I have never heard of anything like that. It does sound weird. No one at any of my interviews did anything like that. I think it might be percieved in the wrong way. 😕 Most of that information should be in your applcations and you can elaborate on it in your interviews, but I wouldn't make a list. 🙂

 

[jkhamlin]

I have never heard of anything like that. It does sound weird. No one at any of my interviews did anything like that. I think it might be percieved in the wrong way. 😕 Most of that information should be in your applcations and you can elaborate on it in your interviews, but I wouldn't make a list. 🙂

I agree. I wouldn't make a list. It could go either way. Do, however, talk about patient experiences that you might have had. That helps reinforce the fact that you got them, because often they have no objective way to verify them. It reassures them that what you put on your app is legit. It probably is more impressive if you can talk about them from memory, and especially from a standpoint of what you learned from them.

 

[scpod]

... it seemed weird to me, but then again what do i know, i'm not applying until next year. 😕

I wouldn't worry about doing that, but DMU is one of a few schools who require a recommendation letter from someone who can verify that you have had actual interaction with patients. You'll need some experience if you want to apply there.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

i have to assume she didn't include names or any other overly revealing details.

If she did, then she should have been rejected because her EMT-B training was apparently seriously flawed.

This sounds like an urban legend to me. It's ostentatious to do something like this, and it doesn't seem like it would help an application anyway.

 

[Pugnacious]

My wife was accepted to DMU, and the only patient experiences she had was the few weeks of shadowing she did with her D.O. doctor. And that was never broken down by patient X or patient Y.

 

[DropkickMurphy]

If she did, then she should have been rejected because her EMT-B training was apparently seriously flawed.

This sounds like an urban legend to me. It's ostentatious to do something like this, and it doesn't seem like it would help an application anyway.

And it might be a privacy violation as well......