Medical school, clinical experience?

NO, and YES, Med schools will see you've had a back round in the medical field (which is good) but when they say clinical experience you will not even be close to the level they really are talking about. Let me sum up a few points.

1. When you enter undergrad you take pre-med courses to become eligible to apply for med school.

2. During your undergrad, apart from shadowing a physician and volunteering in a hospital, or becoming an EMT/ or becoming an M.A these are all geared towards developing your medical back round and its basically says, you've taken an initiative to familiarize yourself with the field, and you are determined to obtain medical experience.

3. Clinical experience involves obtaining interships/co-ops during your junior and senior year in undergrad where a medical school, or your undergrad college/university actually has a program that gets into the clinical experience process (be advised, these programs are few and are very competitive to get into)

4. The real reason these programs are few is becuase they are geared for the benefit of the applicant at the risk of the institution, ( in a nutshell) these programs are designed for med school applicants but the applicants must be thoroughly screened to reduce risk for the institution that gives these programs because you could potentially harm a patient ( you work in a live environement).

Also the other major factor is your age. Not trying to be hard on you but your still really young, most clinical experience obtained prior to medical school comes from exiting seniors from undergrad and people older than you.

Your drive to get into med school is great, dont lose that. I would suggest you get into the M.A program but be advised this is not the same experience you'd get at the higher level.

All the best

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Your experience will be very attractive to medical schools. The only issue is using the word 'clinical'. The word has different meanings, especially in a medical school setting. The last thing you want to do is make anybody think you're trying to claim something they know you couldn't possibly have done, so just avoid the term altogether. When you state that you were a CMA, they'll know exactly what your level of experience is and that will be enough to satisfy them that you know the real world of medicine versus Hollywood's version.

No, by the time you start your hours in school to learn to be an RMA/CMA you already need some clinical hours or experience. so start volunteering at your local hospital or join a club that has that. I'm from south Texas and it's required here or your chances of working in the medical field won't happen.

The medical school that you are applying for will count that as clinical exposure/experience

This will help you get admitted to medical school

Your experience as a CMA will not however count as actual credit towards your graduation from medical school.

It only counts as clinical experience if your medical assistant position was actually in a clinical setting, where you were surrounded with actual patients. Clinical experience is typically gained though volunteer work in hospitals.

From the sound of it, I would say it would qualify as clinical experience.

clinical experience in medical school is part of the schooling - and being an MA is nothing like being a doctor!