What counts as clinical experience?

[cookderosa]

I think it's open to interpretation - I once read on SDF that's it's clinical experience if you can smell the patients, of course, it's kinda crass like that over there.
If I were using it to apply to a health occupations program, I'd probably emphasize patient contact - whether it's verbal or physical. I volunteered for 2 years for a busy medical clinic but I didn't do clinical skills, so I don't know if something like that counts or not. On an aside, I don't know that I'd mention performing diagnostics or providing behavioral therapy- which could certainly be misconstrued to mean practicing without a license by those who don't know every state's laws- which is pretty much everyone lol.