Patient Interaction-Enrolling

[Fifidoctor]

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Does enrolling patients for a clinical study you’re conducting count as patient interaction for medical schools, or is it solely volunteer based? Thanks!

 

[LizzyM]

Clinical experience can be paid (employment) or unpaid (volunteer). You have to be careful to distinguish patients (people seeking/receiving health care services) from research subjects who are participating in studies.

If they are wearing a patient ID wrist band at the time that they are consented, I'd say that you are interacting with a patient. If they aren't wearing a wrist band, you might be in a gray zone.