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[tulsajoe94]

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I'm by no means an expert, just a fellow anxious pre-med, but from what I've heard, quality over quantity. Which of these experiences do you feel have truly contributed to your desire to attend medical school? I would say your summer internship in germany is definitely worthy of a spot on your application, but ask yourself if all the other research positions (especially those under 50 hours) are meaningful activities or space-fillers. Of course, if you can argue that feeding and weighing rats has had a significant impact on your career thus far than definitely put it on your app! A big part of the activities section is how you present and describe your activities. Hope this is helpful?

 

[tulsajoe94]

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[LizzyM]

- did a summer immunology research internship in Germany (240 hours)

Seems like a pretty short experience but it isn't bad... not much different than 8 hours of research per week for a 30 week school year which we'd certainly count.

- freshman research for 1 semester (92hrs, but not original research at all) on lanthanide metal complexes.

Not bad to add if you have a space to fill.

- about 2 months feeding and weighing rats for pharmacology lab (24hrs)

Seems short and, as you say, it didn't mean much to you.... skip this one.

- clinical research data collector for infectious diseases. clicked through 3 different EMRs to collect data on previous cases and then put them in a spread sheet and someone else did statistical analysis to see if there was a best treatment method (48hrs).

Call this "3 different EMR systems " As I was reading it I thought you looked at 3 electronic medical records as in, the charts of 3 patients, but the further explanation makes it seem that you had three different systems. Data collection is legit, although low level, clinical research and if it excited you and made you want to learn/do more in the field, then you should list it even though it was a very short experience in terms of hours.

Wrote a 75pg research thesis on history

- research fellows program at my school where we sat around and discussed research and presented what we were working on (my thesis)

If this was history, and not natural science or social science research, I'd shy away from calling it research unless you were gathering data to test a hypothesis and generating new knowledge. (e.g. the national highway system developed in the 1950s contributed to increased tourism to national parks).

 

[tulsajoe94]

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[LizzyM]

Thanks @LizzyM !

My history thesis topic somewhat medically related (but if I mention it you could 100% identify me haha). Think like history of leech usage and then using lots and lots of archive research to suggest why certain regions used them more often than others. It isn't that, but that would've been similar. An obscure topic in social science/history that has been previously neglected and needed a lot of reconstruction. Still shy away? Or could it stand up to scrutiny?

If it has a medical angle, you should include it. Schools with medical humanities and history of medicine peeps on the faculty will gobble this up!