ERAS "experience" section question

[mossyfiber12]

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ERAS says to put clinical and teaching experience under "work" section. So, can I put any tutoring (non medical obviously) from college or high school under this section?

 

[alwaysaangel]

ERAS says to put clinical and teaching experience under "work" section. So, can I put any tutoring (non medical obviously) from college or high school under this section?

You could. But why would you? Thats pretty irrelevant to your med school experience and residency application. Including tutoring you did in med school would be one thing, but to include experiences from college and high school is just resume padding.

ERAS should be med school experiences, premed school jobs if you're non-traditional (eg you were an accountant for 10 years) and really HUGE or applicable college experiences (eg you won the Olympics, you did Orthopedic Surgery research while still in college, etc).

Otherwise you are going to irritate whoever is reading your application.

 

[khanoa]

Is it okay if I use bullet points in the description part of my experiences or should full sentences be used?

 

[NotAProgDirector]

Either is fine.

 

[Smurfette]

Moving to ERAS forum

 

[tachyon34]

what if you've been involved in tutoring/teaching since high school and enjoy it because you enjoy teaching? I dont see how that would be padding.

 

[alwaysaangel]

what if you've been involved in tutoring/teaching since high school and enjoy it because you enjoy teaching? I dont see how that would be padding.

That's fine. Then list the tutoring that you did in med school. That will be sufficient to express your love of teaching. You don't need to list decade old experiences and waste peoples time.

Listing the high school and colleg stuff is unnecessary and resume padding. Which will really only hurt you in the end. I've talked to the people who review apps, when selecting candidates for interview they often have 30 min to read thru 50 apps. They skim. Do you really want them to skim you app and see some stupid 1hr per week tutoring gig you had in high school and have them toss your app in the reject pile because they think that's the best you've done in 10 years?

The experiences section should be your best and most applicable experiences (and again should really be recent) to best showcase your abilities/passions.

 

[tachyon34]

I wasn't planning on listing it as 3 different experiences, just listing the medical school one and bringing up that its a long term commitment and some of the more interesting/famous ppl i've taught

 

[mossyfiber12]

same here. it was to show I have always enjoyed tutoring and been involved in it. personally I couldn't do any tutoring during med school because it was too time consuming for me.

 

[2012mdc]

same here. it was to show I have always enjoyed tutoring and been involved in it. personally I couldn't do any tutoring during med school because it was too time consuming for me.

A PD told me it was definitely ok to include tutoring I did after college but before med school because I continued tutoring while in med school.

 

[RamblinRose]

I wanted to put my publication and research experience but both these things happened in my undergrad. I will definitely mention my publication, but should I talk about my research in undergrad which led to the publication????

 

[kentuckyguy84]

Ummm, so is putting volunteer experiences and work from college really going to hurt an applicant badly? When I started med school our administration told us to keep all of our previous experiences in a form so that when we applied to residencies three years later we could easily transfer those experiences to ERAS - I assumed this to mean we should just copy/paste everything over. I've already submitted ERAS with basically all of these college experiences on it (~5 or so unrelated experiences). I didn't see this thread until this morning and am now starting to freak out majorly.

 

[hothause]

I dunno. I included things like being an RA in college and doing research that was somewhat medically related. Hopefully no one will think I was just padding my resume which I really don't feel like I needed to do in the first place - I've got extensive experiences from med school. These were important experiences for me at the time. I'm sure there were maybe a few things I should have taken off after reading this thread, but I too was under the same guidance from my school - basically to transfer over AMCAS - and it's too late now! 😱 Hopefully the fact that everything is chronologically listed will help make it easier to skim and overlook any perceived "fluff."