Radiology Assignment at Children's Hospital Question

[ElysiumHaven]

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Hello,

My question here is regarding whether or not my volunteer assignment in radiology counts as clinical experience.
From reading around the forum, supposedly the idea is that if you can smell the patients, it is considered as clinical experience.

But I have also read the interpretation that a physician must be present in order for the experience to be considered as clinical experience.

I work with the technicians mainly, and I simply help transport patient to and fro their rooms/outpatient waiting area/emergency waiting area to the respective equipment area (CT scans, x-ray, fluoroscopy, ultrasound). The technicians talk about the radiologist(s) examining the images, but I personally have not seen the radiologist(s) in person.

With that being said, would my volunteer assignment count towards clinical experience or not?

As the title says, it is at a children's hospital, but that is just extra information that I've mentioned here for the sake of listing it if it matters.

 

[candbgirl]

Doctors don't have to be present for clinical experience. For shadowing of course they do. I think what you do is very much clinical experience. You are interacting with patients and most likely family members.


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[Almighty Saguaro]

Yes, definitely clinical experience. You can talk about how it gave you some insight into how the healthcare system works or whatever, as long as you don't claim it taught you all about what being a doctor like. FWIW, when I applied, I had hundreds of hours of clinical experience, but less than 20 hours of traditional physician shadowing, and it definitely did not seem to hold me back, but seems to have had the opposite effect.

On a side note, referring to technologists as "technicians" may come off to some as disrespectful, considering the education and certifying exam they go through to earn that designation.

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[ElysiumHaven]

@Almighty Saguaro & candbgirl, thank you for your responses. I used the word technician at the time since I heard one of the members of the radiology staff refer to another member as "technician," but in reading your last paragraph Almighty Saguaro, I looked up the difference between technologist and technician, and there does seem to be an indication of a difference between the two words-- I appreciated you telling me about the technologist distinction.

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