Activities Help

[ShinySephiroth]

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After a masters and a post-bacc, I'm finally applying to MD/PhD this summer! In preparing my activities for my primary application (my advisor won't read my personal statement draft unless that is submitted with the activities description draft), I am wondering if separating my conferences attended from poster presentations is wise. I'm running low on activity real estate.

I have two national conferences (two different teams/publications), and one poster presentation at a national conference for one research and two poster presentations I did solo (first author on one and second author on the other) for another research project. Is it bad to combine those two conferences, and the three poster presentations, into one activity? For one, I don't know how else I can describe it outside of what I'm already saying under the publications section for these two projects.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[JoaoMoutinho]

I believe it's pretty common to combine multiple posters/presentations together into one section. I put them all into a section titled "Posters/Abstracts" and don't think it hurt my application any. I didn't combine my publications together into a "Publications" activity, though I probably could have. I'd imagine it's less of a headache on the readers' end to see that you have all your posters/presentations in one entry than 4 different entries for different posters.

 

[ShinySephiroth]

I believe it's pretty common to combine multiple posters/presentations together into one section. I put them all into a section titled "Posters/Abstracts" and don't think it hurt my application any. I didn't combine my publications together into a "Publications" activity, though I probably could have. I'd imagine it's less of a headache on the readers' end to see that you have all your posters/presentations in one entry than 4 different entries for different posters.

Perfect, that is what I was hoping for! Now, I've done some "sleuthing" and from what I can gather, will that look like this (below). I'm not certain, though, if I have it figured out. Is this how it will work?

Experience Type:	Conferences Attended	Most Meaningful Experience: No
Experience Name:	Name of Project Name of Project Name of Project	Dates: 03/2017 Dates: 04/2017 - 06/2017 Dates: 03/2019
Contact Name & Title:	Name of Principal Investigator Name of Principal Investigator
Contact Email:	e-mail e-mail	Contact Phone: xxxx xxxx
Organization Name:	Name of Poster Event (should I put "first author" here? Or in the description?) Conference Name Name of Poster Event Conference Name
City/State/Country:	xxx/xxx/United States
Experience Description:	~snip~