Job as a Sleep Lab Tech

[georgeomally]

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Hey all... just looking for any opinions on this situation.. I am applying right now, and just started a job as a sleep lab tech (work at night, greet patient, help with paperwork, place electrodes on their bodies, and just monitor them all night). The hours are odd and long, and as bad as it sounds, I wanted to know if this is work that medical schools will like, or if they won't consider it to be 'clinical experience.' Should I look for some kind of hospital job (which I have been looking for for ages now)..or does this seem okay? Has anyone worked in this position before? Thanks!

 

[DropkickMurphy]

It's clinical experience- it does involve patients after all- and if it pays the bills who the hell cares what the med school thinks? BTW I'm an RT with sleep experience.

 

[nontradwaitlist]

Hey all... just looking for any opinions on this situation.. I am applying right now, and just started a job as a sleep lab tech (work at night, greet patient, help with paperwork, place electrodes on their bodies, and just monitor them all night). The hours are odd and long, and as bad as it sounds, I wanted to know if this is work that medical schools will like, or if they won't consider it to be 'clinical experience.' Should I look for some kind of hospital job (which I have been looking for for ages now)..or does this seem okay? Has anyone worked in this position before? Thanks!

No its great clinical experience. Sleep really is a composite field of everything else only overnight. Its pulmonology, Nuerology, Psychiatry, a bit of Cardiology, Pediatrics, Geriatrics.....You deal with everyone. If you get motivated theres a lot to learn and a lot of research to do. I started in a private lab and moved onto an academic institution. I would argue its much better to be in an academic institution.

 

[DropkickMurphy]

Agreed. It is probably one of the most well rounded fields you can get into as a premed. Polysomnography is such a broad area and it's still wide open for research, I am hoping to get back into it once I get to the DC area.

 

[georgeomally]

Agreed. It is probably one of the most well rounded fields you can get into as a premed. Polysomnography is such a broad area and it's still wide open for research, I am hoping to get back into it once I get to the DC area.

Thanks for the encouragement, appreciate it! 😀

 

[kevster2001]

Seems like you'll have a lot of free time at night to work on apps and what not

 

[DropkickMurphy]

It can get mind numbing at times. Of course then you have that one patient that codes during a sleep study.....