Would this count as clinical experience? (last time i'm asking)

[mrh125]

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My university won't let me even get internships/clinical experience through their programs because i just graduated two days ago (and everything through their extension program has at least a 3-4 month delay), so i'm wondering if this would count as clinical experience?: Would shadowing a doctor who allows me to interact with patients and do basic things like explain instructions, take their blood pressure, temperature, etc, and answer phone calls count as clinical experience?

 

[Pacna]

Of course it does. It doesn't get much more clinical than taking vitals.

 

[mrh125]

Of course it does. It doesn't get much more clinical than taking vitals.

👍. awesome thanks!!! this makes things so much easier, i was about ready to pull my hair out and take a year off to get clinical experience otherwise.

 

[Pacna]

👍. awesome thanks!!! this makes things so much easier, i was about ready to pull my hair out and take a year off to get clinical experience otherwise.

Allow me to backpedal a bit... It depends on the amount that you did. If you did that for a week, then that's not really significant clinical experience. I read it as though you were an assistant the first time.

Have you done any other activities (volunteering in the hospital, etc)?

 

[mrh125]

Allow me to backpedal a bit... It depends on the amount that you did. If you did that for a week, then that's not really significant clinical experience. I read it as though you were an assistant the first time.

Have you done any other activities (volunteering in the hospital, etc)?

im planning on doing at least 100 hours of hands on clinical experience with this doctor and others and that's I will do. i have not done work at a hospital because of the reasons I mentioned in the original post. Get hospital clinical experience where I am is like pulling teeth.

 

[Pacna]

im planning on doing at least 100 hours of hands on clinical experience with this doctor and others and that's I will do. i have not done work at a hospital because of the reasons I mentioned in the original post. Get hospital clinical experience where I am is like pulling teeth.

I hear you. I never bothered volunteering at a hospital because 1. it's boring, and 2. it's actually hard to get a spot volunteering! 😵

I think that much time w/ the doc would look great and definitely count as clinical experience.

However, I worked as an EMT for 6 months and 1 school told me I needed more clinical experience. They accepted me with no change in my application the following year, but the fact remains. 😛

 

[mrh125]

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[mrh125]

I hear you. I never bothered volunteering at a hospital because 1. it's boring, and 2. it's actually hard to get a spot volunteering! 😵

I think that much time w/ the doc would look great and definitely count as clinical experience.

However, I worked as an EMT for 6 months and 1 school told me I needed more clinical experience. They accepted me with no change
in my application the following year, but the fact remains. 😛

awesome thanks. I appreciate your. this clinical experience business has made me so stressed because with classes and research it was hard for me to fit it in as an undergrad so now im super crunched for time. i want good clinical experience, but a lot of options just arent available for me and im making do with what's there. I think with a good doctor and the free time I have things will turn out well.

 

[kyamh]

awesome thanks. I appreciate your. this clinical experience business has made me so stressed because with classes and research it was hard for me to fit it in as an undergrad so now im super crunched for time. i want good clinical experience, but a lot of options just arent available for me and im making do with what's there. I think with a good doctor and the free time I have things will turn out well.

The whole point of clinical experience is to figure out whether you are cut out for this doctoring gig. In other words, do you realize that you will be more busy with paperwork and less busy solving once-in-a-lifetime mysteries and sleeping with your bosses? You can accomplish this bit by shadowing.

The other point of many clinical experiences is to figure out whether you can be around sick people. Some people have turned away from being pre-med because they really hate dealing with sick people who are unhappy (for good reasons and bad ones), who complain, who are sometimes ungrateful, and who sometimes think that the internet knows best. So checkbox #2: have you been around sick people and thought about whether you can do this every day.

The third point of clinical stuff is basically volunteering/service and that can be done in many other, non-clinical, ways.

Also, hospital volunteering is the worst! All those crazy pre-pre-meds (high schoolers) gunning for volunteer slots.