Any gaps you can see on my Pre-Med progress

[Kamoto]

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Afternoon everyone. I'm currently a Junior working towards a BS in Biology. Key things I've done, and wanted to know of any gaps that I haven't accounted for:

GPA = 3.67 Overall
SGPA = 3.5 Overall

2016 - Graduated High School Senior. Scribe for Alameda County Coroner. 20 Hours per week, so approximately 160 hours that summer. Scribed on 40 or so autopsies.

2017 - Scribe for Alameda County Coroner (Same Doctor). 20 Hours per week, so approximately 160 hours that summer. Scribed on 40 or so autopsies. Authorized by Alameda County to physically touch bodies.

2017 - Volunteer for clinic serving the poor. Fluent in Spanish, so help patients to register on their first visit. 32 Hours this summer.

2017 - Fall of sophomore year. Volunteer for College affiliated hospital. 80 hours helping to talk with patients, bringing food items to chemo patients/dialysis patients, etc.

2018 - Spring of sophomore year. Volunteer for College affiliated hospital. 80 hours helping in the ICU. Taking vitals, talking with patients, helping nurses. Worked with Director of Volunteers, to gain admittance as the first volunteer to be assigned to the Pathology Dept of Hospital for Fall of 2018.

2018 - Summer. Scribe for Alameda Couny Coroner (Same Doctor). 20 Hours per week, so approximately 160 hours that summer. Scribed on 40 or so autopsies. Authorized by Alameda County to physically touch bodies.

2018 - Fall of Junior year. Volunteer for College affiliated hospital. Will be 80 hours as a volunteer for the pathology department of the hospital.

2017-Present. Teach swim lessons to underprivileged children.

So research is one thing I'll concentrate on probably in the summer of 2019. I'll coordinate a research project with the head of pathology at the hospital and my mentor who is a forensic pathologist for Alameda County.

Got any suggestions or any holes you can point out?

Kindly

 

[efle]

500+ hours scribing autopsies

create new volunteer role in Pathology dept

planning research project in forensic path

Maybe shadow some docs that provide care to real live patients

 

[candbgirl]

Maybe get outside your comfort zone in clinical and do some non clinical volunteering too. As efle suggested, work with some live patients. I’m assuming you are planning to be a pathologist. But you need experience shadowing other types of doctors. Doctors who treat and work with live people. Start with spending time with a primary care doc. You’ll be amazed at how different it is working with patients who can participate in a conversation and in their care. Maybe stop working with the coroner you seem to be spending a ton of time with each summer and find something else to do. As to nonclinical work get off campus. Start working a a soup kitchen or a homeless shelter a few hours a week. Look into habitat for humanity and see what projects they have going in your community. You know find some unserved or underserved in your community.

Although you have a consistent record of working with the coroner, it really doesn’t provide you with the experience of working with the sick and injured. How do even know you will like working with sick and injured for the next 30+ years. I’d forget the research. It seems that you are only going to do it because you think you have to do it to check it off on your application. You don’t. Spend your time interesting with the sick and injured living and breathing people in the hospital or clinic. And those less fortunate than yourself in your community. Good Luck!