Re: No Health Care Experience is Wrong!! Archived Message
Posted by NeuroQueen on May 25, 2007, 2:26 pm, in reply to "Re: No Health Care Experience is Wrong!!"
Being exposed to 2500 or 5000 clinical hours, for that matter, just skims the surface of what you have to deal with involving patients. Yes you are right about many AA students having biology or chemistry backgrounds but there are also those that are history majors and whatever else. And getting into a medical school where you are exposed to patients over a 8 to 12 year period is totally different than getting into a 2 year masters degree program. So that History major that got into med school will have YEARS to gain the experience. 2) Volunteering or an actual job does help alot more than you think. You get to see the good the bad and the ugly. Besides if I were a patient I would like to know that you didn't just walk out of an office took 2500 hours of clinical work and are now about to administer anesthesia on me... but thats just me. I would like to know that you are familiar with the hospital environment and know how to deal with patients. I am sure that they are making the assumption that you have. 3)AA is a masters degree program. Which means that you have MASTERED a specific art and are familiar with that art on every level. One part of that being patient care. 4) A Graduate student certainly would need to acquire experience in anesthesia and that would come over time, but the fundamentals should already be there. I am not saying that the way things are right now are bad, what I am saying is that overtime it should become a requirement for the patients sake as well as the AA. It is necessary right now for things to remain how they are to bring in AA's and to establish them into society.
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