ERAS question

[agatha721]

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As for the "experience" tab on the ERAS application, should we put experience gained only in medical school or are we expected to put undergraduate experience as well?
Thanks in advance for the replies!

 

[Cards21aceking]

I think my understanding was that you could include relevant undergraduate stuff that could be pertinent to your particular field. Anyone else have any thoughts?

 

[cgk]

I think my understanding was that you could include relevant undergraduate stuff that could be pertinent to your particular field. Anyone else have any thoughts?

Do you put the most recent stuff first or last, or does the application program put it in date order for you?

 

[NotAProgDirector]

As for the "experience" tab on the ERAS application, should we put experience gained only in medical school or are we expected to put undergraduate experience as well?
Thanks in advance for the replies!

I think my understanding was that you could include relevant undergraduate stuff that could be pertinent to your particular field. Anyone else have any thoughts?

You can include anything you want. Anything from pre medical school should be either highly relevant to your field of choice, or very interesting. Do not include "shadowing" experiences -- PD's will not care about that.

 

[SOUNDMAN]

What about a job where you did clinical research, like for a clinical research organization, where they run phase I and II studies?

 

[gutonc]

What about a job where you did clinical research, like for a clinical research organization, where they run phase I and II studies?

Is it experience? Did you do more than sweep the floor?

This isn't rocket science. And to be honest, the likelihood that anyone will care all that much about your "experience" is so small that it will, in the end, largely be insignificant.

 

[SOUNDMAN]

Is it experience? Did you do more than sweep the floor?

This isn't rocket science. And to be honest, the likelihood that anyone will care all that much about your "experience" is so small that it will, in the end, largely be insignificant.

No need to be a smart ass about this, I realize you went through this atleast 4 or more years ago, but a lot of us have no clue about this experience and what it entails.

Basically took it from the protocol standpoint and provided the clinical logistics. It was an actual job where I ran and organized the clinical studies coming in for various pharmaceutical companies, helped collect the data, dose the patients, draw the blood, etc, etc.

 

[It'sElectric]

No need to be a smart ass about this, I realize you went through this atleast 4 or more years ago, but a lot of us have no clue about this experience and what it entails.

Basically took it from the protocol standpoint and provided the clinical logistics. It was an actual job where I ran and organized the clinical studies coming in for various pharmaceutical companies, helped collect the data, dose the patients, draw the blood, etc, etc.

I had a similar experience before medical school, and I had no idea as to whether I should put it (it's not relevant to EM, but it's medically related). I'm looking through my list of "Experiences", and thinking "good Lord, I must look like a slacker". Then you hear people on SDN saying that they will hardly even glance at your "experiences"...all of a sudden, my paranoid personality is having a field day, and I'm pretty certain I'll get 2 interview invites (max). 😱

Just had to vent, anyone else feeling this way?

 

[hippiedoc13]

With regard to undergrad/pre-med experiences, I would only put on the stuff that is very outstanding or interesting, or accounts for a time gap in your education. (ie, obviously if you worked for a few yrs between college and med school, that should be accounted for, no matter what field)

For some concrete examples, I think the only undergrad stuff that I included on ERAS was my experience living/studying/working abroad (interesting conversation piece, and relevant because of my language competencies), a couple of big awards I got at college graduation, and my basic science research. No need to include every little activity and extracurricular from the pre-med years.