Would you consider this a clinical experience?

[Fidgety]

Trying to figure out if I could include this on my application as a clinical experience.

I interned last year at a hospital near my school. My role was to be a personal trainer for two couples who were struggling with heart issues. They were not patients, as in people staying in the hospital, but they were picked from a field of applicants as people who would benefit from extra help for diet, training, and improving vital signs.

I assisted physicians and exercise therapists in taking vitals and my main role was creating training sessions for the couples. We trained at the hospital, used their equipment and took vitals every week.

What do you think?

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[HCHopeful]

Yup.

 

[deleted407021]

The rule of thumb is as follows: if you can smell the patients, it's clinical experience.

This would seem to qualify but it probably wouldn't be as good of exposure as you might get working around actual parients.

 

[palatopharyngeus]

Trying to figure out if I could include this on my application as a clinical experience.

I interned last year at a hospital near my school. My role was to be a personal trainer for two couples who were struggling with heart issues. They were not patients, as in people staying in the hospital, but they were picked from a field of applicants as people who would benefit from extra help for diet, training, and improving vital signs.

I assisted physicians and exercise therapists in taking vitals and my main role was creating training sessions for the couples. We trained at the hospital, used their equipment and took vitals every week.

What do you think?

yes

 

[blueharbor]

The rule of thumb is as follows: if you can smell the patients, it's clinical experience.

This would seem to qualify but it probably wouldn't be as good of exposure as you might get working around actual parients.

I'm pretty sure they are patients, just outpatient rather than inpatient.

 

[caffeinemia]

The rule of thumb is as follows: if you can smell the patients, it's clinical experience.

This would seem to qualify but it probably wouldn't be as good of exposure as you might get working around actual parients.

You picked that up in this forum, but don't believe everything you hear here. This rule is discriminatory towards individuals affected with Kallman's syndrome and other conditions that cause them to experience anosmia.

 

[deleted407021]

You picked that up in this forum, but don't believe everything you hear here. This rule is discriminatory towards individuals affected with Kallman's syndrome and other conditions that cause them to experience anosmia.

Lel

 

[alpinism]

No.

Clinical experience is working or volunteering to help take care of patients receiving medical care.

Being a personal trainer is a solid EC, but its not clinical experience.

 

[songl4a]

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[palatopharyngeus]

No.

Clinical experience is working or volunteering to help take care of patients receiving medical care.

Being a personal trainer is a solid EC, but its not clinical experience.

"I assisted physicians and exercise therapists in taking vitals"

"We trained at the hospital, used their equipment and took vitals every week."

really? that doesn't sound like clinical experience to you?

 

[palatopharyngeus]

How about working with individuals with autism to foster social skills?

depends on the setting. were you working with a psychiatrist? was this in a hospital? need more background info

 

[Salt Salt]

It doesn't have to be a strict yes/no. Our brains tend toward binaries, but really every situation is a little different. This sounds like great experience but maybe not sufficient as your *only* clinical experience. As a supplement to regular hospital volunteering or something, it would look great!

Of course, I might be wrong. I'm just a fellow premed.

 

[palatopharyngeus]

It doesn't have to be a strict yes/no. Our brains tend toward binaries, but really every situation is a little different. This sounds like great experience but maybe not sufficient as your *only* clinical experience. As a supplement to regular hospital volunteering or something, it would look great!

Of course, I might be wrong. I'm just a fellow premed.

you're 100% right

 

[Salt Salt]

you're 100% right

I was about to be flattered before I got the joke -_-

 

[palatopharyngeus]

I was about to be flattered before I got the joke -_-

HAHAHAHAHAHA dude i actually was complimenting you and i only just realized the joke you're talking about after you pointed it out (assuming you're referring to my "100%" being a jab at your binary yes/no thing)....lol thats pretty funny

 

[Salt Salt]

HAHAHAHAHAHA dude i actually was complimenting you and i only just realized the joke you're talking about after you pointed it out (assuming you're referring to my "100%" being a jab at your binary yes/no thing)....lol thats pretty funny

Hahahahahaha amazing. Yeah that is funny. Oh well, back to being flattered I guess! Jk 😉

 

[songl4a]

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[palatopharyngeus]

School group, working with parents and one of the group leaders is a psychiatrist.

sounds like a great experience, but it wouldn't be classified as clinical