Is Patient Liason/Screener counted as clinical experience

[pshere]

I just wanted to know if me being a Patient Liason/Screener considered clinical and is it good. My job is to screen (take temp, info, give out passes etc ) visitors in the hospital. I also transport patients or visitors to rooms if on wheelchair throughout the hospital and sometimes going to certain patients rooms to check on them and feeling/behaviors etc. Would this be a strong experience or should I also try to look for something else like scribing. I'm not sure on how many other experiences should i go for. I also may be pursuing EKG soon since I have family connection to get me started on it.

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[Medicine-Man]

Are you close enough / involved enough with the patient in a clinical setting to smell them?

Looks like a yes to me, but I'm no adcom.

 

[YCAGA]

I just wanted to know if me being a Patient Liason/Screener considered clinical and is it good. My job is to screen (take temp, info, give out passes etc ) visitors in the hospital. I also transport patients or visitors to rooms if on wheelchair throughout the hospital and sometimes going to certain patients rooms to check on them and feeling/behaviors etc. Would this be a strong experience or should I also try to look for something else like scribing. I'm not sure on how many other experiences should i go for. I also may be pursuing EKG soon since I have family connection to get me started on it.

This is more clinical experience than a lot of pre-meds get. Definitely more patient contact than scribing. In terms of exposure to what a doctor actually does, that is why shadowing is required as well.

 

[deleted1091712]

I just wanted to know if me being a Patient Liason/Screener considered clinical and is it good. My job is to screen (take temp, info, give out passes etc ) visitors in the hospital. I also transport patients or visitors to rooms if on wheelchair throughout the hospital and sometimes going to certain patients rooms to check on them and feeling/behaviors etc. Would this be a strong experience or should I also try to look for something else like scribing. I'm not sure on how many other experiences should i go for. I also may be pursuing EKG soon since I have family connection to get me started on it.

I think so. Right now I am an inpatient transporter and I have to check Oxygen levels on patients, contact the departments on what patients I have to transport, assist nurses with moving patients during procedures and ofc transporting them for their tests and sometimes surgery. If you get to smell patient that all you need.

 

[candbgirl]

I think so. Right now I am an inpatient transporter and I have to check Oxygen levels on patients, contact the departments on what patients I have to transport, assist nurses with moving patients during procedures and ofc transporting them for their tests and sometimes surgery. If you get to smell patient that all you need.

This is really good clinical experience.