Is EMT = Clinical Experience

[TFA2MD]

@Goro , My kid is taking 2 year gap year and doing TFA. While doing TFA, is also doing EMT. 2 questions to you is
1. Will EMT be considered clinical experience?
2. My kid already has 100 hours of shadowing experience with a cardiologist, Dentist, Gynecologist, they are doctors who are family friends. Is that ok? or should it be with a known program at a hospital?

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[cj_cregg]

EMT work (not just the certification alone) is clinical experience.

That sounds like plenty of shadowing, might try to get in with a PCP but otherwise generally about 50 hrs of physician shadowing (not dentist or other non-physicians) is adequate. It does not have to be through any special program and personal connections are fine.

 

[Princeton Medical Student]

As valuable as family support is in this process, your kid would be best served asking these questions and finding resources him or herself.

 

[Goro]

@Goro , My kid is taking 2 year gap year and doing TFA. While doing TFA, is also doing EMT. 2 questions to you is
1. Will EMT be considered clinical experience?

Yes

2. My kid already has 100 hours of shadowing experience with a cardiologist, Dentist, Gynecologist, they are doctors who are family friends. Is that ok?

very yes

or should it be with a known program at a hospital?

Not needed

 

[Elite Medical Prep]

EMT definitely does count as clinical work! This is one of the classic way premeds get hours (scribing is also a popular option).