work/activities question for clinical experience

[HotHamH2O]

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I'm coming up on 8 years of paid clinical experience as an EMT. The first 5 years consisted of me doing pre-hospital and inter-facility transports for a private ambulance company. The last 3 years have consisted of me working in an ER as a emergency tech doing blood draws, starting IV's, performing EKG's, wound care, splinting/casting, taking orders from, entering orders for, and assisting physicians with procedures, etc.

Question is, should this be listed under "work" or "health care related" activities. It seems like it should be under work, but I feel listing it there might cause it to be overlooked as actual clinical experience with physicians. Plus, this would leave my health care related activities section with just 50+ hrs of physician shadowing.

Thoughts and suggestion?

 

[Ismet]

It's work. Adcoms will know that EMT = clinical, and you have a description box to fill with the different responsibilities you had (and if it was a meaningful experience, you get an extra 1300 characters to talk about it)

 

[HotHamH2O]

It's work. Adcoms will know that EMT = clinical, and you have a description box to fill with the different responsibilities you had (and if it was a meaningful experience, you get an extra 1300 characters to talk about it)

My personal statement will contain a story about an experience I had assisting a physician while on the job that put me on the path to medicine. Would it be unwise to put that story here as well?

 

[Ismet]

My personal statement will contain a story about an experience I had assisting a physician while on the job that put me on the path to medicine. Would it be unwise to put that story here as well?

Yeah you don't want your PS to be a regurge of what you write in your work/activities section. Maybe briefly mention it (~1 sentence) in the work section, then the full story can be in your PS?

 

[LizzyM]

The section where work and volunteer activities, as well as honors, publications, and hobbies, are listed is called "Experiences". Each experience is tagged from a drop down menu. Your EMT experience is quite clearly "Employment, non-military". Your job title will be EMT or whatever. Believe me, it won't be overlooked.

 

[Geebeejay]

My personal statement will contain a story about an experience I had assisting a physician while on the job that put me on the path to medicine. Would it be unwise to put that story here as well?

Don't duplicate anything in your application - as you are filling it out, you'll realize that 1300 characters (and 5300 for your PS) is not much, and you don't want to give up precious real estate for anything less than top-notch material.

I applied w/ 2.5 yrs of EMT/ED CNA experience and listed it under employment. Unless the application changes a lot the next time around, you'll probably want to do the same.

 

[HotHamH2O]

Thanks you guys for the clarification.

LizzyM, it is always nice hearing from you. Your advice is priceless since you're in the biz 🙂