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Hello friends, I have been behind the scenes on this forum for quite some time; reading, observing, and taking in information like a sponge. I am a junior in college and have officially dedicated myself fully to getting into Osteopathic medical school. Here is some information about me and what I am about, both as a person and a student of medicine. What are my chances as of now?
My cumulative GPA is a 3.4 with a 3.1 sGPA. I have an upward trend and with two more years left of college I have a goal to reach a 3.65-3.7 range cGPA with a 3.4-3.5 sGPA. (Those are my goals and they are realistic).
I have not taken the MCAT, yet, due to some of the core classes that I have yet to take. (Organic and Biochemistry)
I am going to list my volunteer background as a structured list to make it easier to interpret and read.
-200-250 hours as volunteer in a major E.R.
-~100 hours volunteering in the hospital doing tasks such as transporting, delivery, and bereavement room trays.
-A semester volunteering with lab research. Mostly just setting up and washing items. Some data logging.
My Physician shadowing background is extensive. I have shadowed 2 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons for ~40 hours. A NICU Pediatric physician for a day. Two General Surgeons for a day each. A Cardiothoracic Surgeon for a day. A Cardiologist for approximately 7 days total. Multiple Anesthesiologists and a Director of Anesthesiology at a Major Hospital. A Physical Rehabilitation Physician for a month or so total. A Family Physician for a couple of days. A couple of Radiologist for a few months total, including an Interventional Radiologist. An Intensivist (Pulmonologist) for two days...and the list and time is still going.
I have no research under my belt, except for some small biodiversity ecological research we did on a stud abroad while in Belize. The research was never published. Only data was collected on the trip.
My Non-Clinical volunteering includes a lot of volunteer work for elderly women in my town just doing whatever need be done. I also volunteered as a representative for the Tulsa, OK May Fest Art Festival. I was also involved with a 3 week "Community Development" study abroad trip with my University. We helped the poor community by working with them to engineer clean water gauging stations, gathering data for biodiversity, setting up health tents for basic health screening and education and teaching in schools for children of all ages.
I have been employed since I was 14 years of age. I will only include the semi-medically and medically relative job descriptions. I started Life-guarding for the city of Tulsa when I was 16 years of age. I was certified as a first responder the whole time and it lasted for 5 consecutive summers.
While life-guarding I was working another job at a major hospital in Tulsa; Saint Francis. I was a Nurse Tech and Clinical Secretary on the unit for 2 years, also working at St. Johns on my off days as a CNA. I moved to Arkansas where I took a job as a patient transport specialist in another major hospital. While transporting patients I would also help in the radiology department when they needed extra hands setting up patients for procedures or difficult imaging positions.When school started I left that job to become a Nurse Tech once again, but this time at a Surgical Specialty Hospital that happened to be privately owned by physicians. I dealt with Bariatric patients who had one of three types of gastric weight-loss surgers, Orthopedic surgery, or any emergency surgery that dealt with orthopedics or abdominal issues. While working there I was double trained in medical records so I could be of more use and valuable in more than one area. I learned a lot of valuable information regarding paper work and the importance of many documents. I also work at an assisted living complex. The assisted living is the first non-hospital related job I have had in the category of medicine.
Thank-you for taking the time out of your day to read this and evaluate my position as a future osteopathic medical student.
-Mike
My cumulative GPA is a 3.4 with a 3.1 sGPA. I have an upward trend and with two more years left of college I have a goal to reach a 3.65-3.7 range cGPA with a 3.4-3.5 sGPA. (Those are my goals and they are realistic).
I have not taken the MCAT, yet, due to some of the core classes that I have yet to take. (Organic and Biochemistry)
I am going to list my volunteer background as a structured list to make it easier to interpret and read.
-200-250 hours as volunteer in a major E.R.
-~100 hours volunteering in the hospital doing tasks such as transporting, delivery, and bereavement room trays.
-A semester volunteering with lab research. Mostly just setting up and washing items. Some data logging.
My Physician shadowing background is extensive. I have shadowed 2 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons for ~40 hours. A NICU Pediatric physician for a day. Two General Surgeons for a day each. A Cardiothoracic Surgeon for a day. A Cardiologist for approximately 7 days total. Multiple Anesthesiologists and a Director of Anesthesiology at a Major Hospital. A Physical Rehabilitation Physician for a month or so total. A Family Physician for a couple of days. A couple of Radiologist for a few months total, including an Interventional Radiologist. An Intensivist (Pulmonologist) for two days...and the list and time is still going.
I have no research under my belt, except for some small biodiversity ecological research we did on a stud abroad while in Belize. The research was never published. Only data was collected on the trip.
My Non-Clinical volunteering includes a lot of volunteer work for elderly women in my town just doing whatever need be done. I also volunteered as a representative for the Tulsa, OK May Fest Art Festival. I was also involved with a 3 week "Community Development" study abroad trip with my University. We helped the poor community by working with them to engineer clean water gauging stations, gathering data for biodiversity, setting up health tents for basic health screening and education and teaching in schools for children of all ages.
I have been employed since I was 14 years of age. I will only include the semi-medically and medically relative job descriptions. I started Life-guarding for the city of Tulsa when I was 16 years of age. I was certified as a first responder the whole time and it lasted for 5 consecutive summers.
While life-guarding I was working another job at a major hospital in Tulsa; Saint Francis. I was a Nurse Tech and Clinical Secretary on the unit for 2 years, also working at St. Johns on my off days as a CNA. I moved to Arkansas where I took a job as a patient transport specialist in another major hospital. While transporting patients I would also help in the radiology department when they needed extra hands setting up patients for procedures or difficult imaging positions.When school started I left that job to become a Nurse Tech once again, but this time at a Surgical Specialty Hospital that happened to be privately owned by physicians. I dealt with Bariatric patients who had one of three types of gastric weight-loss surgers, Orthopedic surgery, or any emergency surgery that dealt with orthopedics or abdominal issues. While working there I was double trained in medical records so I could be of more use and valuable in more than one area. I learned a lot of valuable information regarding paper work and the importance of many documents. I also work at an assisted living complex. The assisted living is the first non-hospital related job I have had in the category of medicine.
Thank-you for taking the time out of your day to read this and evaluate my position as a future osteopathic medical student.
-Mike
