EKG Tech or Receptionist in hospital?

[rocketbooster]

Which would you do? I'm just assuming they both pay the same. 40 hours/week

I would assume the EKG tech job is better experience, but the hours are 6:30am-3:30 M-F. the receptionist job is 8-5 M-F.

what do you think? having to be at work at 6:30am everyday would kind of suck...

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[rHinO1]

Which would you do? I'm just assuming they both pay the same. 40 hours/week

I would assume the EKG tech job is better experience, but the hours are 6:30am-3:30 M-F. the receptionist job is 8-5 M-F.

what do you think? having to be at work at 6:30am everyday would kind of suck...

The receptionist gig will count for next to nothing. No real patient contact, no real part in the patient care process, and no medical skills learned. Get out of bed and get to work.

 

[URHere]

Neither of these jobs is the holy grail of med school admissions, but the EKG tech job may at least give you the chance to speak with nurses and clinicians at the hospital. If you are competent and helpful, it may open the door for shadowing experiences, one-on-one talks, or LORs in the future. Don't write an opportunity like that off.

 

[mvenus929]

what do you think? having to be at work at 6:30am everyday would kind of suck...

I would love to get an extra hour and a half of sleep every day. I have to be to work at 5. But, I get off at 1:30, which leaves me the rest of the 'working' day to do errands. It kinda sucks when you have to take time off of work to get things done.

But, I'd go for the EKG tech for other reasons. You do nothing as a receptionist. Being any sort of tech in a hospital will give you a whole lot more experience.

 

[rocketbooster]

Neither of these jobs is the holy grail of med school admissions, but the EKG tech job may at least give you the chance to speak with nurses and clinicians at the hospital. If you are competent and helpful, it may open the door for shadowing experiences, one-on-one talks, or LORs in the future. Don't write an opportunity like that off.

I'm just doing this as a summer job. I already have tons of shadowing experience, clinical experience through volunteering fulltime at a free clinic checking in patients, taking vitals, etc., a few years of research...I already have my LORs and app rdy to go as I am applying EDP.

This is just to make money. I need to make some before my Americorps year starts in September. I might try to work some night shifts part-time as I'm doing Americorps actually.

Is the EKG tech a fun job?

 

[URHere]

This is just to make money. I need to make some before my Americorps year starts in September. I might try to work some night shifts part-time as I'm doing Americorps actually.

Is the EKG tech a fun job?

If this is just to make money, why not pursue something non-medical that you won't get the chance to do again for awhile? If you love arts, look for an internship. If you really want money, pick up a job as a server or bartender. If your shadowing ducks are all in a row, there's no need to find a lower paying (and probably more boring) clinical job.

 

[rocketbooster]

If this is just to make money, why not pursue something non-medical that you won't get the chance to do again for awhile? If you love arts, look for an internship. If you really want money, pick up a job as a server or bartender. If your shadowing ducks are all in a row, there's no need to find a lower paying (and probably more boring) clinical job.

i'm doing EDP and i interview in september. i want to be doing something clinical that will help me going into my interview. they are going to ask me "what did you do over the summer" and i want my answer to include something clinical that gave me more experience rather than a random job. i'm also going to be volunteering at a free clinic, which I'm going to continue for sure over this entire next year bc i love it, but i want my fulltime job to be clinical for now, too. i can do everything you're mentioning hopefully after I get into med school by october 1st!!!!! I really hope so bc I just want this long wait to be over!!!