<p>Does helping out with autistic children in a neuropsychiatric hospital count as clinical exposure? What about helping with clinical trials for people with depression, insomnia, and other neurological problems?</p>
<p>There’s patient contact, but does it count?</p>
<p>The first one sounds like clinical experience but the second sounds more like research experience.</p>
<p>“The Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization Program at the Neuropsychiatric hospital is a short-term integrated day treatment program for young children with autism, developmental disabilities and behavior disorders.”</p>
<p>It seems I may be involved in helping to teach the kids. I may not have a lot of contact with the PhD and MD staff though.</p>
<p>What would be the criteria for clinical exposure? </p>
<p>-patient and physician contact</p>
<p>Exposure close enough where “you can smell the patients” is how it has been described before (by a credible source). I don’t think there are actual official requirements for it to be considered, it’s more of a judgment call.</p>