Medical Are my clinical hours a problem?

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TheBoneDoctah

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Hi, thank you in advance for any help.

I'll be graduating this spring and apply this coming summer for medical schools and I was a bit concerned about my clinical hours. I was going to volunteer a lot more during last year, but obviously that couldn't happen. I am currently at 280 clinical volunteering hours and 70 shadowing hours. I volunteered at one hospital from 2017-2019 and then another for all of 2018, and then with the red cross first aid from 2017-2019. Do I still have a chance at T10 with that number?

Here is the rest of my application for reference.

  • GPAs
    • cGPA: 3.99
    • sGPA: 3.99
  • MCAT
    • 521 (131/130/129/131)
  • State of Residence
    • Ohio
  • Ethnicity/Race
    • ORM, South Asian
  • Undergrad Institution
    • Public
  • Research Experience
    • Around 3000 research hours (basic science)
    • Wrote a grant for and won a summer fellowship
    • Won travel award through university
    • 1 first author poster
      • Presented at 4 conferences (3 local, 1 national)
    • 1 publication (4th author) in the review process (not sure if it will be published by the time of application)
    • Currently doing more research (clinical/math), expected to add ~ 500 more hours and hopefully another poster and an oral presentation if not a paper
  • Shadowing
    • 70 hours
      • Neurosurgery
      • Adult congenital disease cardiology
      • Pediatric cardiology
      • Interventional cardiology
      • Family physician
  • Non-clinical
    • 300 hours
    • Started tutoring service for underprivileged students in the local community
    • Started a program to help international students adjust to the local climate through temporary housing
    • Helped develop a national COVID helpline, helped over 300 students
    • Other miscellaneous things
  • Extracurricular
    • President of two student organizations (founded one)
      • One is considered one of the top at the university (4 awards)
    • Resident Advisor
    • TA for OChem
    • Peer-tutor for 1 year
    • Developed an app to help Parkinson's patients
      • Currently trying to get a patent
      • Two awards and funding from the university hospital
    • Global Brigades trip (should I even mention this, because it is international?)
    • Developed a plan for the university hospital to decrease readmissions and presented it to the quality team and will be implemented
    • Hobbies
      • Self-taught artist
        • Designer for an Instagram page about culture and identity
      • Self-taught flutist
  • Awards
    • Dean’s list (all semesters)
    • Research fellowship
    • 4 awards for student organization
    • 1 award from the state for the tutoring program
    • University scholarship
    • 2 leadership awards
    • Hospital grant for app
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Not a problem. Make sure that you can have good conversations with interviewers about the experiences.

The biggest issue here is the 3.99 is not 4.0.
 
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@Goro The clinical hours I included in the first paragraph were not included in the breakdown, sorry for the confusion. I volunteered at two hospitals (discharging patients, helping them with their needs (water, food, linens, checking on their day) which was for 130 ish hours. And then for 120 hours I worked with red cross as a first responder. So I provided first aid at different events around columbus, and I've seen a lot of crazy stuff with that all the way from giving a kid a band-aid and comforting them to dealing with an unresponsive patient that was on drugs.

@Goro @TheBoneDoctah the other concern I had was time enrolled vs hours. Like will they be like "he volunteered here for 3 years but only has 120 hours smh"
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Nope. You're golden.
I suggest the following schools:
NYU
Columbia
WashU
Vanderbilt
Yale
JHU
U Chicago
U Penn
Northwestern
Harvard
Mayo
Cornell
Stanford
Case
Duke
Sinai
U VA
BU
Baylor
UCSF
Pitt
USC/Keck
UCSD
UCLA
U MI
Rochester
Hofstra
Ohio State and all other OH schools
UTSW
Dartmouth
Western MI
USF Morsani
SUNY-SB
U MA
U IA
Albert Einstein
Emory
Tufts
NYU-LI
Jefferson
Miami
SLU
U WI
U CO
U VM
 
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