Which job would be the best decision?

[brockhamptonfanacct]

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[FutureSurgical]

Do what makes you happy, tbh. 4th gap year out of college and I'm in research. I love every aspect of it; I turned down a rural health position that studied health outcomes in a part of the state in which I reside. Would that have looked better on my app? Of course it would have. My clinical volunteering/exposure is pretty average (~250 hours,) but I am passionate about my work. Whatever you choose to do, make sure you can talk about it passionately during your future interviews.

If I had to choose, I'd choose the Direct Support Professional position. It sounds like you'd rather do that than scribing. Just my n=1

 

[brockhamptonfanacct]

Do what makes you happy, tbh. 4th gap year out of college and I'm in research. I love every aspect of it; I turned down a rural health position that studied health outcomes in a part of the state in which I reside. Would that have looked better on my app? Of course it would have. My clinical volunteering/exposure is pretty average (~250 hours,) but I am passionate about my work. Whatever you choose to do, make sure you can talk about it passionately during your future interviews.

If I had to choose, I'd choose the Direct Support Professional position. It sounds like you'd rather do that than scribing. Just my n=1

That was helpful, thank you. It's another reason I'm torn. I know I would genuinely enjoy both positions; I LOVE my shadowing experiences and am asking the doctors questions regularly, so to see that day in day out with scribing, I think, would inspire the same sort of passion in me that the DSP job would. I just think the DSP is less common and also is so much more of a direct caring role, but then I fear that scribing is the golden standards of EC's and I'll regret passing on it and not having as solid clinical experiences.

 

[Moko]

Both are valid paths to gaining clinical experience. Being a direct support professional would give you direct hands-on clinical experience helping a very vulnerable patient population, whereas being a scribe would give you more opportunities to see physicians in action, in addition to the breadth of medicine (depending on the specialty).

Personally, being a caregiver will likely provide invaluable life lessons and insights that cannot be taught in school.

 

[brockhamptonfanacct]

Both are valid paths to gaining clinical experience. Being a direct support professional would give you direct hands-on clinical experience helping a very vulnerable patient population, whereas being a scribe would give you more opportunities to see physicians in action, in addition to the breadth of medicine (depending on the specialty).

Thank you, I concur. I was told previously that the DSP is non-clinical, however, since my client isn't technically a patient, and lives in a residential behavioral health facility. So if the DSP isn't a clinical position (but I do have other clinical experience), would scribing be the way to go?

 

[dr_kateb]

Which one pays more?

 

[Moko]

Thank you, I concur. I was told previously that the DSP is non-clinical, however, since my client isn't technically a patient, and lives in a residential behavioral health facility. So if the DSP isn't a clinical position (but I do have other clinical experience), would scribing be the way to go?

I would see DSP as being a clinical position. Your clients are patients with intellectual disability (a medical problem), you take them to doctors' appointments, administer their meds, and clean up after them. It doesn't get much more hands-on or clinical in my opinion.

 

[brockhamptonfanacct]

Which one pays more?

Ha, the difference is negligible (but DSP does pay one dollar more per hour)

 

[brockhamptonfanacct]

I would see DSP as being a clinical position. Your clients are patients with intellectual disability (a medical problem), you take them to doctors' appointments, administer their meds, and clean up after them. It doesn't get much more hands-on or clinical in my opinion.

I am glad to hear someone think this way; thank you! I felt the same way initially but heard conflicting opinions on both sides. I appreciate you taking the time to comment.