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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC earned his National Registry EMT certification in high school and is thinking about pursuing premed in college.  Is EMT work considered clinical experience for med school applications? If he continues volunteering as an EMT in college, would that be enough clinical experience, or would he still need other experiences like physician shadowing? Also, how time consuming is EMT work in college? He is wondering whether it is manageable with premed classes, research, volunteering, and everything else.  Should he take it slow?  TIA[/quote]

EMT is clinical and considered a high-level clinical experience. Yes he needs shadowing too, anywhere above 50 hr, below 100 is ok.
If he is a top candidate with high grades and likely to get high MCAT(is his SAT 1520+) then he may end up wanting to shoot for T20 med schools in which case he needs clinical variety in addition to EMT, and also needs leadership, volunteering outside of EMT and of course needs 2 semesters or at least one summer intensive research. He can do EMT in the summers or during the school year or both it depends on the area and the time commitment if it is an on-campus EMT "club" that requires a lot of hours. The goal is 500-800 total clinical hours in addition to the shadowing, if he wants to be most competitive, part EMT/part something else is ideal. One summer full time is 400-500 hours. He should take it easy first semester and focus on a 3.7+ the first year if at ivy/T20 private, as close to 4.0 as possible at lower ranked/typical average public schools. [/quote]

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