EC Survey

[mon2]

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Hey guys this is just a general survey of your strongest extra curricular activity.

Aside from your GPA and your MCAT score what is the strongest quality (or your highest achievement) that will help (or has helped you) you get into med school? It could be anything...sports, research, volunteering etc.

 

[Siggy]

The 2 biggest things that I think will help me get into med school is my future work as an EMT (I'm a second year about 3/4 through an EMT class) and the fact that I am an Eagle Scout.

 

[mon2]

Ok I have my own business...resonable successful....in addition to various other things...

 

[beep]

helped edit a medical text & co-wrote a chapter for it.

 

[cardsurgguy]

Dove down to the bottom of the ocean, discovered a previously unknown species of bacteria, and extracted out a cure for all cancer from it.

But other than that, not really all that much in terms of EC's. 😀









Seriously though, it's assisting with cardiothoracic surgery in the OR. It's was unbelievable.

 

[Pinkertinkle]

Standard stuff.

 

[tank you]

I was an Orgo tutor for a year. Also, I am currently a CPR Instructor for the Red Cross. Are these considered above normal ECs?

 

[LauraMac]

everything i've done is oh so average. i guess the best is that i was treasurer of biomedical engineering society.

 

[PreMedAdAG]

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ICA VARSITY SOCCER!!!! woot woot!

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

Fulbright scholar, novelist, lead a writing workshop in prison, volunteered at a clinic in a developing country.

If you are serious, then more power to you. Fulbright scholarships aren't a dime a dozen. 👍

 

[benelswick]

Had a job changing locks in hotels. Saw every crap hole of a 1 horse town south of the Mason Dixon. Rented a room from 90 y/o former sharecropper...learned how to skin a squirrel and play a little blues guitar. Started my own funk club. Work in healthcare full-time. Are these considered E.C.'s.?

 

[phleebie]

i stick needles in peoples' arms all day as a phlebotomist (aka vampire).

 

[AndrewB]

Varsity volleyball player.

 

[skiracer90]

varsity ski team. 4 years of research.

 

[hardy]

helped edit a medical text & co-wrote a chapter for it.

Do you think that will help?

 

[synapse lapse]

MMEP (included anatomy at Baylor, credit at Baylor, and extensive hands on shadowing) and internship with state rep. at state capital. Also, tons of other shadowing hands on.

 

[beep]

Do you think that will help?

why wouldn't it?

 

[hardy]

why wouldn't it?

I just fail to see how running your own business helps you becoming a doctor. It more seems like a distraction for your medical career.

 

[Agent Splat]

EMT-B and EMT-IV in training for volunteer and private services since 2002, perform with an improvisational comedy troupe, tutor at campus Writing Center, former biology TA. Also an amateur photographer.

 

[beep]

I just fail to see how running your own business helps you becoming a doctor. It more seems like a distraction for your medical career.

i think you maybe accidentally replied to the wrong post...

but, while we're on the topic, running your own business might improve your teamwork, people skills, management skills, organizational skills, problem-solving skills, and/or time management. also, it shows that you take initiative. and... it's highly relevent if you want to go into private practice.

 

[hardy]

i think you maybe accidentally replied to the wrong post...

but, while we're on the topic, running your own business might improve your teamwork, people skills, management skills, organizational skills, problem-solving skills, and/or time management. also, it shows that you take initiative. and... it's highly relevent if you want to go into private practice.

I probably did, shame on me.

 

[Khenon]

Years of research (have an MS to boot), and involvement with minority affairs (currently mentoring minority students in college). The following aren't EC's but I think would influence my app . . . come from a rural upbringing, military veteran, disadvantaged background.

 

[Khenon]

but, while we're on the topic, running your own business might improve your teamwork, people skills, management skills, organizational skills, problem-solving skills, and/or time management. also, it shows that you take initiative. and... it's highly relevent if you want to go into private practice.

This is true. The Mayo phone interview actually asks if you've ever ran a business . . . and I think they're looking for the abilities listed above.

 

[blebl34]

EKG tech, social fraternity, ER volunteer (before tech-ing), AED, weekly program where I help handicap kids ride horses

 

[jammin06]

um...hopefully these are above average, because these are actually my main EC's, (don't have the regular tutoring/volunteering)

-EMT-Intermediate: work between 15-20 hours per week with campus emergency medical service
-Raised 15k to send 13 students from my univ to travel to mexico to do medical outreach work during our spring break
-surgical externship where i got to scrub in on pretty much every surgery in the OR (except for cardiothoracic....so, mad props to the guy who posted earlier and got to do that )
-Probably going to kenya this summer to do AIDS outreach work

 

[aprince80]

standard shadowing and ER experience, I think that helping in a hospital in Kenya is my strongest, along with devloping and implementing a new science program for freshmen students at my undergrad, also have ms in neuroscience

 

[evajaclynn]

I think that what will help me the most was working in the clinical center at the NIH for a year. Great experience!

 

[Stitch626]

i stick needles in peoples' arms all day as a phlebotomist (aka vampire).

Me too. You rock.

So let me ask you this...do you prefer a 21 or 22 gauge needle?