Pediatric physical therapy—is it clinical experience?

[Latteandaprayer]

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I’m volunteering in the children’s hospital in the physical therapy department. It’s mostly talking to patients and helping the physical therapist (not sure how yet). I want to do it because it sounds interesting and I love kids. It’s also more engaging than refilling coffee makers in the ED.

Is this clinical experience? I ask because it’s in physical therapy and it’s not working with a physician. I don’t mean any disrespect to the profession, but would medical schools see it as clinical experience?

 

[Catalystik]

I’m volunteering in the children’s hospital in the physical therapy department. It’s mostly talking to patients and helping the physical therapist (not sure how yet). I want to do it because it sounds interesting and I love kids. It’s also more engaging than refilling coffee makers in the ED.

Is this clinical experience? I ask because it’s in physical therapy and it’s not working with a physician. I don’t mean any disrespect to the profession, but would medical schools see it as clinical experience?

So long as you are interacting with patients having physician-prescribed physical therapy in a helpful way, it is a clinical experience. It is not physician shadowing, but the PTs might be able to refer you to a doc willing to have you observe.

 

[Goro]

I’m volunteering in the children’s hospital in the physical therapy department. It’s mostly talking to patients and helping the physical therapist (not sure how yet). I want to do it because it sounds interesting and I love kids. It’s also more engaging than refilling coffee makers in the ED.

Is this clinical experience? I ask because it’s in physical therapy and it’s not working with a physician. I don’t mean any disrespect to the profession, but would medical schools see it as clinical experience?

Yes