<p>Hey I was wondering what someone would think of the job I have from a premed perspective. I work a few days a week during the semester in the finance dept. of a company that helps people with autism and other disabilities and my job involves me entering medicaid billing info/stuff for the company. Would this been seen as a positive on my application as its sort of medically related or would it be seen the same as any other job? Thanks.</p>
<p>If you have patient contact it would be a medically related EC/job. If it’s strictly data entry, I’m not sure and will let someone else with more experience answer that.</p>
<p>Based off of your description, this does not sound like a clinical EC. It would be viewed similarly to any other non-medical related job.</p>
<p>Definitely not clinical experience since there’s no patient contact involved.</p>
<p>I personally wouldn’t call it medically-related since it really doesn’t involve any knowledge of medicine or first hand exposure to medicine, just data entry and billing codes.</p>
<p>Even if it doesn’t technically count as “clinical experience,” it still sounds like a great thing to know. Med schools are notoriously bad at teaching the business aspects of medicine (perhaps because it’s uncomfortable to admit that money plays a role in patient care) so the fact that you know something about the business workings of a company that deals with health care and medicaid and medicare and alllll that fun mumbo jumbo will certainly be an asset to you should you go to med school in the future. </p>
<p>Will it give you a boost in the admissions process? Who knows/it’s hard to say/there are so many factors playing into admissions decisions anyway. However, I truly think it’ll give you a boost in the practical aspects of practicing medicine, and that’s definitely something that’s important to know!</p>
<p>Sounds like a nice gig.</p>
<p>I think the most important question is do you get to do anything other than literally enter info into a spreadsheet? This is really the question with any low level/intro position. From your description here, this sounds like a very “meh” thing on your resume, but, if you have concrete examples of how you’re learning to do more than type numbers into excel (a la Kristin’s post) then it sounds like it could be an interesting, worthwhile experience in your own development along the path to a career in medicine.</p>