2018 New Year's Pre-Med Goals

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Happy New Years fellow SDNers,

Hope 2017 has treated you well and if not let's make a toast to a great 2018!

Unlike New Years resolutions that are filled with fluff, let's make positive strides towards our goals of entering medical school.

I'll get the ball rolling, I hope to contact doctors within this week to get in some summer shadowing hours, and I hope to get my mental health under control by going to my school's mental health center.

What will you do to get closer to medical school?

Happy Holidays! 🙂

 

[Shayla Flowere]

My resolutions:
1.) finish my SHPEP Application by requesting the last of my transcripts tomorrow
2.) apply for a summer research internship
3.) reach out to professors before it becomes to much
4.) get to know at least one professor really well
5.) aim for a 3.6+ GPA next semester

 

[bioboy23]

Finish my last year with a 4.0, shadow some DO’s, and have a productive research year

 

[jconnell82760]

1: Reach out to professors for LOR's before they get busy with the semester
2: Have a solid rough draft for my PS by February
3: Prewrite secondaries for my top 5 schools by March
4: Continue doing the activities I enjoy (yoga, board games) and not let this process take over my mental health

 

[Kobethegoat24]

Happy New Years fellow SDNers,

Hope 2017 has treated you well and if not let's make a toast to a great 2018!

Unlike New Years resolutions that are filled with fluff, let's make positive strides towards our goals of entering medical school.

I'll get the ball rolling, I hope to contact doctors within this week to get in some summer shadowing hours, and I hope to get my mental health under control by going to my school's mental health center.

What will you do to get closer to medical school?

Happy Holidays! 🙂

Study for MCAT, shadow more doctors, have enough courage to ask for LOR, and be a better/loving person

 

[DoctorSnow]

1- Shoot for my first 4.0 EVER this semester!
2- Get 510+ on the MCAT
3- Get my LOR writers notified to get ahead of the crowd
4- Better my exercise with more cardio (mainly just lift weights)
5- Go to bed before midnight 🙂

 

[stickgirl390]

My goal is to pay off my credit card in the next 3 months so I’m not carrying any debt going in to med school this fall. Applications/interviews put me about $5,000 in the hole. (I’m very close to finishing this goal!)

 

[harmony14]

1. Be more outgoing
2. Learn how to know a professor well
3. Know a professor well
4. Apply to start doing shadowing
5. Apply for CNA training to start clinical hours
6. Start volunteering
Yes, I’ve basically focused on academia[emoji26]


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[Jdp00921]

My goal is to pay off my credit card in the next 3 months so I’m not carrying any debt going in to med school this fall. Applications/interviews put me about $5,000 in the hole. (I’m very close to finishing this goal!)

^^^ This. I don't owe quite as much, but I would definitely like to be completely debt free come August (excluding educational loans of course haha). In addition, I'd like to have a decent amount saved come August as well, hopefully I could save a few thousand over the next few months!

 

[DoctorSnow]

1. Be more outgoing
2. Learn how to know a professor well
3. Know a professor well
4. Apply to start doing shadowing
5. Apply for CNA training to start clinical hours
6. Start volunteering
Yes, I’ve basically focused on academia[emoji26]


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I understand there are benefits for being CNA certified, but I got over 1200 hours of good clinical experience being an unlicensed assistant personal (UAP), which is basically a nursing assistant. So if you are under a time crunch to gain experiences, you can definitely look into if the hospitals in your area are willing to hire unlicensed assistants! Just my 2 cents 🙂

 

[harmony14]

I understand there are benefits for being CNA certified, but I got over 1200 hours of good clinical experience being an unlicensed assistant personal (UAP), which is basically a nursing assistant. So if you are under a time crunch to gain experiences, you can definitely look into if the hospitals in your area are willing to hire unlicensed assistants! Just my 2 cents 🙂

Do they pay?
I'm doing CNA because i basically have 0 clinical hours and i have 1.5 years before application. I've really been pushing it off because i always doubted that i could work and still perform well at school because i'll probably become a workaholic for the moola.

 

[DoctorSnow]

Do they pay?
I'm doing CNA because i basically have 0 clinical hours and i have 1.5 years before application. I've really been pushing it off because i always doubted that i could work and still perform well at school because i'll probably become a workaholic for the moola.

Well n=1, but my hospital pays me pretty well (12$ base pay + 1.5$ on weekend pay and + 1.5$ if I work night shifts). I had to stay part-time for a year until they gave me PRN so make sure you check on that!!

Not gonna lie, I worked two shifts 6am-6pm every other weekend. and it was rough with organic chemistry exams on monday when I had just worked ~25 hours the days before (it also will teach you good time management). Part-time is hard if they aren't lenient with scheduling, but PRN is definitely the best because you could schedule yourself two shifts a month and make sure there aren't any exams!

I was lucky enough to work full-time over the summer so literally one year of working got me >1000 hours. You could look into it because it will save you the valuable time that you could be gaining experience instead of getting CNA certified. *This is just my opinion and others may disagree of course!*

 

[Sharknad0]

1) Find 2 science teachers for LOR’s
2) Get at least 100 hours of clinical volunteering by the time I apply in June (just got off hospital waitlist)
3) 4.0 for my last semester to pull me up to a 3.63/3.47
4) Crush the MCAT


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[CloverBale]

Not be a loser and get into med school

 

[Robin-jay]

Not be a loser and get into med school

Mine is to be a loser that gets accepted to medical school.

 

[DoctorSnow]

I'm adding another!
6- Bring my horrible CARS scores up from 30-50th percentile up to the rest of my sections (70-90th percentiles)