Activities continued from High School

[PreMed2006]

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Hi,

I am a rising sophomore premed student. I am continuing my research (at a medical school), clinical volunteering (at a medical school hospital), being part of the same underserved advocacy club, shadowing same physicians that I did during my high school (beginning junior year summer) years. Am I allowed to include those hours that I accrued while I still in high school ? Is it medical school dependent? What is the general consensus/recommendation? Thank you

 

[candbgirl]

Are you asking about the shadowing hours? You only need around 50 hours total. So get those and be done.

 

[PreMed2006]

Are you asking about the shadowing hours? You only need around 50 hours total. So get those and be done.

Not just the shadowing hours. Medical Research 300 hours) and clinical volunteering (200 hours) , leadership (400+ hours) too.

I am planning to do more shadowing too. But just wondering if it is allowed to include the hours accrued while in high school since I am continuing the same activities in college.

Thank you very much for your response

 

[LizzyM]

You can list the true start date and end date on your application even if the activities pre-date your graduation from HS. The concern is when folks do stuff in HS and then have little if any activities in college. In other words, we don't want people to rest on their laurels. You aren't doing that.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

You should be able to split the hours in your activities descriptions. Check our pinned thread on this.

 

[eigen]

I am planning to do more shadowing too. But just wondering if it is allowed to include the hours accrued while in high school since I am continuing the same activities in college.

The point about shadowing was that it's probably not something you need to do more of, at least for your application. Shadowing isn't clinical experience, and you really only need a fairly small number of total hours. More shadowing doesn't really strengthen your application, and can (relatively) weaken it since it's time you're not doing something more meaningful.

 

[PreMed2006]

@eigen , @LizzyM , @Mr.Smile12 , thank you so much for the kind response