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You do have traditional clinical experience. If you can smell the patient it's clinical.
Shadowing is clinical. OMM is clinical for DO schools. The rest is research and non-clinical volunteering, which is important in it's own right.
Shadowing is clinical. OMM is clinical for DO schools. The rest is research and non-clinical volunteering, which is important in it's own right.
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AnatomyGrey12
No it's not. Clinical is clinical. Shadowing is shadowing. OP for clinical you can do a number of things like volunteer in a care center as an example. You don't need to necessarily be in a hospital. OMM counts.
On AMCAS shadowing is listed as "clinical observation". I disagree that it is not considered clinical as does the AAMC according to their designation.
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AnatomyGrey12
The AAMC is not the one looking at your application, they also want schools to forget about the MCAT once someone has over a 500. Shadowing is useful, but most adcoms do not consider it clinical experience. I have talked to N>6 individuals associated with adcoms in real life and no one accepts shadowing in lieu of real clinical experience. This is on top of the adcom members on this site saying the same thing. Shadowing is good and necessary, but it is not clinical experience. It is just observation.
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