Does my law experience help?

[pandemia]

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[Fivo]

lol

 

[1289]

I worked as an assistant in a law firm for about 1.5 years back when I didn't know whether I should pursue medicine for a career. I knew I wanted to help people but putting that into practice as a lawyer didn't seem very appealing to me since I always liked science.

Would I be looked at favorably by the adcoms because of my past law experience?

it won't help or hurt you.

 

[TheWeeIceMan]

Calling it "law experience" is a bit of a stretch.


It will probably be looked at the same as most other non-medical jobs.

 

[davidbm95]

It may help u or not. But It will definately not hurt you. If it is not health care related I don't see why medical school's would care for it.

 

[lobo.solo]

No, it would not be looked great. Why would it? It was just a job...you were exploring career options

 

[Law2Doc]

I worked as an assistant in a law firm for about 1.5 years back when I didn't know whether I should pursue medicine for a career. I knew I wanted to help people but putting that into practice as a lawyer didn't seem very appealing to me since I always liked science.

Would I be looked at favorably by the adcoms because of my past law experience?

It would not be looked at as "law experience" -- adcoms see a handful of actual practicing lawyers applying every year. It would be looked at as similar to any nonprofessional job.

Be very careful of how you spin things though -- being a clinician actually has a lot more in common with practicing law than with being a scientist -- both law and medicine are service operations-- so saying law wasnt as appealing as "science" might put off some people. For that matter I would shadow more, and be able to point to why you like medicine rather than why you didn't like legal assistant/law careers, because adcoms want you to be attracted to them, not repelled by something else. Nobody wants another careers washouts.