Will it help my experience?

[JVixen]

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Hello everyone,
So currently I have graduated with my bachelors this may with a BA in Biology. My gpa is a 3.5 and I am currently prepping to take the mcat in the early fall before the horrendous switch to the new mcat. I intend to apply for the fall of 2016 application cycle. I am lacking experience as far as shadowing but I have joined the first aid squad this past may and plan to do emt training in january.

I also started working as a andrology/endocrine technician in a fertility clinic. I deal with patients and analyze blood and sperm specimens as well as contact nurses/doctors frequently. I am wondering if this would in anyway help me with my lack of experience since it is in a clinical field or will a medical school just look at it as oh..shes just a technician thats not experience.

I plan to shadow a doctor anyway but, I just want to know if this in anyway will benefit me or will just be thrown aside.

 

[Jojokarade]

If you are going to have a lot of interactions with patients, then it will be a good experience that you will probably get a lot out of. Also, if you are going to do some shadowing as well, use the fertility clinic to help with patient interactions and the shadowing to learn more about what it is like to be a physician. If there is significant patient interaction, then ADCOMs will not look down on the experience at all. Good luck.