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Hello! I'm a 3rd year business student in Canada, and I only recently decided to do medical school. Problem is, before I realized I loved medicine, I had already signed a contract for a marketing co-op. Even worse, while the company is a healthcare/bio company, on my first week at work, we've...

Dear SDN, Thank you for taking time to read this small dilemma. I'm filling out the Work/Experiences section of the application. I had plenty of important experiences both while as a pledge and an active member of my fraternity. Especially under the category "leadership". However, I've heard...

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I didn't find any information about CSPM Summer Program in sdn. Has anyone got into this program? What do you think about the summer immersion program? And is it too late to apply for Summer 2018? If there's a post that I missed about this program, could you please send me the link? Thank you!!

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As you all know, applying to med school requires years of dedication. In the midst of fulfilling pre-med requirements and studying for the MCAT, it can be easy to slip into a “check the box” mentality with your extracurriculars for med school. What does checking the boxes look like? Take the...

Hey all, I'm a D4, just 3 months away from graduation. I'm on break now mentally preparing for my licensing exam coming up real soon. Just wanted to find a place to de-stress while helping feed anyone's curiosity about my experience in D-school! Few things: 1. Will not disclose which school I...

Does anyone (urm/orm) NYS resident know any hospitals,clinics, or physicians in particular that allow pre med students to shadow? I am having trouble finding physicians to shadow. Please help!

I live in a really small border town, and there are no vet clinics. For volunteer work, I applied in a vet clinic in the nearest town. However, I come from México, I live really close by, and I go there very often. In the border town of México, there is a zoo, a variety of vet clinics, and many...

Hello all, Before I get started, I just want to explain that I am already getting clinical experience by volunteering at a hospital. In addition to this, I just got an interview to volunteer at an occupational therapy clinic and was wondering if medical schools thought of this as good...

After wrestling the beast, I realise that no amount of training can truly prepare you. It’s like nothing else out there. That being said, this account is an attempt to alleviate the anxiety that will plague me for hopefully only the next three weeks. Reading past experiences guided me during the...

So I’m a Sophomore in High School. I’m pretty smart I think, 4.1 GPA with all A’s which I’m not worried about. It’s the experience that I’m worried about. So in the summer I signed up for Havard MedScience, which was a week of shadowing, meeting and listening to doctors and other researchers at...

Hello guys, I have recently been considering MSW at the University of Maryland because I want to take the LCSW route to directly start doing psychotherapy. Now the problem is that I don’t have much work experience..I have only volunteered at Johns Hopkins Hospital twice and shadowed a doctor. I...

I am taking a once-weekly Spanish class offered by the hospital I volunteer it. This is in no way affiliated with any college or other educational institution. There are no grades or credits given with it. It is purely a community education class that I take to learn a valuable skill. I am no...

Hi everyone! Just getting a head start on my personal statements and was wondering if these count as public health related experience...or if I can kind of spin them to relate haha: 1. Volunteering at a clinic emerg room - speaking to those in minor treatment realizing how easily preventable...

Opening for an ER scribe position at Kingman Regional Medical Center in Kingman Arizona. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who is planning on going to medical school, physician assistant school, or nursing school. Scribes work with physicians, residents, physician assistants, and nurse...

Dear SDN pre-vets, My husband made this amazing Excel spreadsheet for logging veterinary hours. It's too good to be used by only one person. I have created a gmail account (in the name of my dogs) for the sole purpose of sharing it with you guys, while keeping my identity anonymous. Most...

I am currently 17 years old and I plan on taking the MCAT in May 2018 and then I'll apply to medical schools and I'll be 18. I will graduate with my bachelor's next Fall in December 2018 and I currently have a 3.70 GPA What are my chances that I'll be accepted to medical school right away at 18...

Hi all, I'd like to share with you guys my OAT experience since SDN helped me a lot. Background: I started studying 3 weeks before the test. About the first 1.5 weeks, I studied about 4 hours a day, and about 6 hours everyday for the last 1.5 weeks. The study materials I used were the OAT...

hi, I am a sophomore in college and I work part time (like 13-15hrs a week) at a courthouse scanning files. I was wondering if this would look good on applications to Med schools?? If so, how much would it help me?? thanks.

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone would be able to provide some guidance or give input on what I should do. I took the PCAT Sept 8 (94 composite), have a GPA of above 3.55, and am a student-athlete at my university. With being a student-athlete, I have not been able to have an opportunity...

Hi, I am a sophomore (undergrad), and I am having problems finding research opportunities. Any advice on how to be involved with research as an undergrad so I can put it on my application to med school to show that I have been involved in research? Thanks.

Hi friends, I am currently working in a clinical research lab and dedicate about 20 hrs/week. I will have about 1500hrs by next summer. I currently do not have any publications under my belt, and I have not indicated on my primary that my team plans to submit this upcoming year (although I have...

Hello, I found out today that I passed the FL MPJE! This was my second attempt so I just wanted to share my experience. On my first try, I read over the UF powerpoints once, read the Nova pdf twice, and read some statutes. I failed but was pretty close to passing which was a bummer. For my...

Any questions/concerns/ranting about VMCAS **for the class of 2022. I obviously need to work on rereading what I wrote before I hit enter.

Hey guys I was wondering if you could give me any advice on how to improve my application for this cycle. I am a non traditional student and had to take a few pre-reqs to be considered last year. I applied last year and got interviewed and waitlisted at tennessee and also waitlisted at UF...

Any current or former pre-meds from UT Arlington out there please share your experience at UT Arlington! I am thinking about transferring from UT Austin and want to get a feel for how the school's pre-med experience is. Would you endorse it as a quality education for what you pay? If i put in...

Hi: I am selecting 6 experience in my cover pages. I have 100+ shadowing experience, bu non of the specific one is above 100. Should I list one of them or all of them? Thank you

I am mostly done with my application just have a few little things to finish up yet but my transcripts have been received, I got my LOR in, and have written my PS. However, I just got selected to participate in a volunteering dental project to help unserved communities in my state. This project...

Wanted to make this forum just because the last similar thread was made back in either 2013 or 2015 and wanted to make an updated version Leave your good/bad shadow experience! I would love to read some. I forgot to post my story up. I got to shadow my uncle's wife, who is an ophthalmologist...

Hi, I was the keynote speaker at my university's annual scholarship dinner this year. I'm wondering what I would put this under on my app? Experiences or achievements? I'm thinking experiences, but I wanted to get a second opinion.

Hi, My question is about how to report my research experience on my application. I started working in a research lab on campus during summer getting paid as a full-time research assistant. After summer passed, I continued to work in the lab during the school year, but I was not being paid...

Well aware this has been asked and answered, but my situation is a tad different. I volunteered in a hospital toward the end of high school for a considerable amount of hours, stopped when I began college, then resumed toward the end of college at the same hospital, where I continue to...

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It's crunch time and I have written several drafts for my personal statement and other essays for the Texas application. I'm a perfectionist and would feel significantly better turning my drafts over to an experienced professional to fine tune them or tell me I need a complete reboot and guide...

So I have been hired as a Summer Research student at a hospital with a renowned cardiologist. I am helping this doctor with this clinical research (dry lab - data entry every day) alongside a team of summer students. The problem is I am not very interested in this specialization and the work is...

Hey guys recently took my step 1 and thought I would share my experience while it is still fresh in my head. STATS CBSE January 2017:188 CBSE April 2017: 243 NBME 17:238(curve is ridiculous) NBME 18: 256 NBME 19:250(curve yet again ridiculous but I got better at step I guess) Ill try my best...

I am currently an undergraduate senior majoring in Applied Psychology at New York University. My plan after graduation was to pursue a mater's degree in psychology at Queens College and gain more research experience in clinical neuropsychology. However, I am now questioning my plan. As of right...

Hi - I know that 'shadowing' is a really broad term and am wondering if there is a difference between having experience vs shadowing. PTCAS uses 'observation hours' so does this mean that I would not be doing anything hands on and just observing the PT throughout the day (and therefore...

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