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Looks fine but it seems like you're planning to do way too much. Quality > Quantity. Pick one clinical activity like hospital volunteering and one non-clinical activity and aim for >150 hours of each. You will be just fine as you have 2-3 years until you apply.
 
Agree with the above. I also had officer positions in multiple clubs and it's such a time sink, with all the meetings and stuff to get done and whatnot. Aim to get solid leadership role in a few rather than surface level positions in many club (basically, try to become President of one club rather than like secretary of 3 clubs lol). You don't necessarily have to cut the non-health club tho - I was president of a non-health club and it's one of my most meaningful activities/in my essays. It'd be a good talking point.

I think you'll be fine for clinical experience but keep in mind you want a well-rounded app. Try to get poster presentations/publications from research, nonclinical volunteerings hours, and have some fun lol (aka continue your hobbies if you want - you can actually put them on your med school app).
 
I think one of the best things you can do is find one thing you can commit real time and effort to. Find something that you actually care about and donate time and energy. It can be anything at all. I think one of the surest signs of a good, reliable, hard-working human being is a track record of service to others in a way that's meaningful for them. It doesn't need to be a soup kitchen. It can be a tennis camp for kids, volunteer tutoring, whatever.

And you obviously need clinical experience. I am fairly concerned that you don't want to feed people or feel you can't keep up with the skills required of a scribe. Reading your posts makes me wonder why you want to be a doctor.
 
goldensouls said:
I keep being told this and I keep revising my plans even less lol. I'm just so scared to not make it into med school the first time and I suffer from comparing myself to other people and their resumes. From what I wrote, what activities would you suggest I stick with?
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I think everyone suffers from that a bit, especially on forums like these where it seems like everyone has their ish together.

I would suggest:
- free clinic (both clinical experience and working with underserved populations compared to volunteering at a hospital, however both are great options)
- like they said above, pick one leadership position and excel at that
- non-clinical volunteering (homeless shelter, tutoring poor kids, etc.)
- research
Are you taking a gap year and then applying? (essentially 2 gap years)
 
goldensouls said:
I'll only be taking one gap year. I plan to apply the summer after I graduate.
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You can pretty much do whatever you want during your gap year since it won't really hold much weight in terms of your application.
 
goldensouls said:
I'm planning on quitting my scribe position...since... I find no joy in feeding, changing, or showering other individuals.
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bruh...you found no joy or satisfaction from making a direct difference in someone's life with the abilities and skillsets currently at your disposal?

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goldensouls said:
I'm sorry, was I somehow misinformed that doctors solely feed people and chart what patients say? I appreciated your constructive criticism at first, but your ending comment was beyond ignorant. Doctors definitely do their share of charting but it is NOT the only thing they do and they almost never feed patients. I enjoy being in the ED and what scribing entails, but the fact is, I'm not good at scribing lol.
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Why are you not good at scribing? What skills do you lack that you can't develop to be an acceptable scribe?

As for the rest of your comment, I find this significantly increases my concern. I ask again: why do you want to be a doctor? The impression I'm getting from you is that feeding and washing patients is beneath you. Yes, feeding patients is not what doctors do, but you're not a doctor. Being a doctor is about using your skill set to help patients and make their lives better. Feeding and washing patients is how you can make patients' lives better with the skill set you currently possess as a college student.

Or you could find some other way to make people's lives better. That seems to be significantly lacking from your experiences at the moment. A couple of days of Meals on Wheels and Habitat for Humanity don't do that.

If you want to succeed at this, you need a healthy dose of humility and you need to listen to what the people who have been there and done that have to say.
 
I encourage you to stick it out for at least a few weeks. I too felt totally overwhelmed during training and wanted to quit the first few weeks but eventually got the hang of it and was rather bored
 
Also, and I'm just throwing this out there, the only two things you've done that get you close to patients have ended with you quitting.

I think physician may not be the job for you.
 
goldensouls said:
SIS you wanna wipe people's ass and feed them food while they spit it out at you then DO YOUUUUU!!!!!!!! I find joy in tutoring underrepresented students, starting community gardens, volunteering my time at shelters but not wiping ass. You wanna be funny and get buck we can get to it. I came here for simple advice for my resume.
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Oh dear. This is extremely concerning.
 
goldensouls said:
Please stop commenting on my thread. You're wasting your time because I do not care to read anything you have to say. Thanks 🙂
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We have this nifty thing called an "ignore" function!
 
el_duderino said:
Why are you not good at scribing? What skills do you lack that you can't develop to be an acceptable scribe?

As for the rest of your comment, I find this significantly increases my concern. I ask again: why do you want to be a doctor? The impression I'm getting from you is that feeding and washing patients is beneath you. Yes, feeding patients is not what doctors do, but you're not a doctor. Being a doctor is about using your skill set to help patients and make their lives better. Feeding and washing patients is how you can make patients' lives better with the skill set you currently possess as a college student.

Or you could find some other way to make people's lives better. That seems to be significantly lacking from your experiences at the moment. A couple of days of Meals on Wheels and Habitat for Humanity don't do that.

If you want to succeed at this, you need a healthy dose of humility and you need to listen to what the people who have been there and done that have to say.
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could not have articulated it more magisterially than this
 
goldensouls said:
I'm planning on quitting my scribe position, which is kind of turning my world upside down right now since I had my mind set on this job. I'm on the last few days of my training and realizing that I don't really have the skillsets for this job.
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So what are you going to do in medical school when you're required to write your own notes? Instead of quitting the job, perhaps you could spend your time seeing what it is you're doing wrong, collecting feedback from the provider or scribes you work with, and finding ways to improve because it is a skill that you'll eventually have to know.
 
goldensouls said:
You are absolutely correct. My issue is we see maybe two patients and I'm fine, minimal mistakes, and then we see four in a row with reevaluations on both the previous patients and suddenly I'm spiraling and making major and minor mistakes. Now I'm flustered and can't seem to catch back up. Trust me, I've practiced and practiced and just can't seem to get the hang of it. I really wanted to make this job work but it seems I've lost all my confidence. It doesn't help that this semester I'll be taking orgo II and physics which are two subjects I struggle with as well as working another job as a research assistant. We also don't get any form of break, even lunch lmao.
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did you have a proctor or preceptor phase where a more experienced scribe teams up with you on a shift until you've learned to fly on your own?
 
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