Do I need any ECs beside shadowing, hospital volunteering, and lab research?

[Med_Leviathan]

I'm really paranoid about my ECs. Is ~300 hrs of volunteering in a hospital, 7 semesters of physiology research (+1 summer) and shadowing four physicians good enough for ECs? I don't think I can do anything non-medically related, like theatre, music, or w/e. I really want to go to UMass, if that at all matters.

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[the12thmd]

You're doing great.

 

[rcd]

I'm really paranoid about my ECs. Is ~300 hrs of volunteering in a hospital, 7 semesters of physiology research (+1 summer) and shadowing four physicians good enough for ECs? I don't think I can do anything non-medically related, like theatre, music, or w/e. I really want to go to UMass, if that at all matters.

That's kind of the wrong way to look at it... But if you ask me you're set. Maybe something showing leadership would be nice... Also something to show that you have a life outside of medicine... Maybe tutoring children or something, I don't know.

 

[Med_Leviathan]

Oh yeah, I really want to do tutoring and I think it would actually be fun for me. Leadership is going to be a big problem, though...

 

[vtucci]

I assume you have an LOR from a professor in one of the sciences? If not, pick up at least one of those. My pre-med program required three.

 

[Oculus Sinistra]

I'm really paranoid about my ECs. Is ~300 hrs of volunteering in a hospital, 7 semesters of physiology research (+1 summer) and shadowing four physicians good enough for ECs? I don't think I can do anything non-medically related, like theatre, music, or w/e. I really want to go to UMass, if that at all matters.

I don't understand -- why can't you do anything non-medically related?

 

[nycpizza]

lookin' good!