Does this count as clinical experience?

[deleted989271]

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I am the Co-President of a club that hosts free kidney disease screenings. Anyone is welcome to attend our screenings and at the screenings we take their blood pressure, urine samples, and blood sugar levels; there's also a nephrologist present that makes recommendations to the attendees. Would this count as clinical experience? I'm not totally sure because they're not technically patients as we normally define it.

If it counts as clinical experience, how would I count the hours? The amount of time spent at the screenings is about 15 hours so far. But as an exec, I do a lot of planning for it as well. Would those hours, outside of the screenings, count?

 

[Dr panda]

If you are close enough to smell the patient then it is clinical experience. Not sure about your case.

 

[Catalystik]

I am the Co-President of a club that hosts free kidney disease screenings. Anyone is welcome to attend our screenings and at the screenings we take their blood pressure, urine samples, and blood sugar levels; there's also a nephrologist present that makes recommendations to the attendees. Would this count as clinical experience? I'm not totally sure because they're not technically patients as we normally define it.

If it counts as clinical experience, how would I count the hours? The amount of time spent at the screenings is about 15 hours so far. But as an exec, I do a lot of planning for it as well. Would those hours, outside of the screenings, count?

What percent of those screened are found to have an abnormal test?

 

[deleted989271]

What percent of those screened are found to have an abnormal test?

It's rarely the case that we'll have someone that might actually have kidney problems.

 

[Catalystik]

It's rarely the case that we'll have someone that might actually have kidney problems.

Screening a normal population, rather than "patients" makes this iffy to use for a clinical activity. Considering that you've taken on a leadership role with the group, I suggest you consider listing under Leadership. Or, alternatively Volunteering-Not Medical/Clinical (if you are weaker in that category). Let adcomms reading it make up their own minds. Some WILL give you points in the clinical category, but you won't be felt to be upselling the activity for the rest of them that don't feel that way.

 

[Catalystik]

I listed being a phlebotomist for screening Venezuelan refugees in Colombia. They were a ‘general population’ and rarely positive for anything save the occasional Malaria. Should I not have listed that as clinical?

Let's not highjack the OP's thread.

 

[907914]

Let's not highjack the OP's thread.

I do that often, don't I? My bad, Deleted.

 

[LizzyM]

I am the Co-President of a club that hosts free kidney disease screenings. Anyone is welcome to attend our screenings and at the screenings we take their blood pressure, urine samples, and blood sugar levels; there's also a nephrologist present that makes recommendations to the attendees. Would this count as clinical experience? I'm not totally sure because they're not technically patients as we normally define it.

If it counts as clinical experience, how would I count the hours? The amount of time spent at the screenings is about 15 hours so far. But as an exec, I do a lot of planning for it as well. Would those hours, outside of the screenings, count?

Call it non-clinical... there are no patients, just asymptomatic people who want to get a free screening test. It is a valuable service, although if the pre-test probability of kidney disease is low, the value of the screening may not be that great.

How often are you picking up untreated hypertension and/or undiagnosed diabetes? Do you get people already being treated for one of these kidney-threatening conditions who just want reassurance that their treatment is working?