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Hello fellow nontrads/mature students; what types of activities are you involved in for ECs? Any suggestions? I have limited time due to a busy work schedule. How important is "volunteering" at this stage, or shadowing, if you work in health care already??
The health care work is always good, but you do need to show us your altruism and humanism. we do, after all, need to know that you'll make a good doctor, and not merely a good medical student.
Check with your local houses of worship or volunteering opportunities.
Merry Xmas, y'all!
I was accepted with virtually no ECs. I had like, less than one hundred volunteer hours at one place, maybe 50 hours of shadowing, and that was about it. My jobs over the years were more than enough to get me accepted at a few places.
If you are gunning for MD, you might want to add more volunteer hours. A job in direct patient care is priceless though.
RRT at a fairly prestigious teaching hospital for a few years, member of several teams (code, transport, etc), ED tech for a couple years at a level 1 trauma center.Can I ask what jobs you held that diminished the need for ECs?
Thanks guys! I do some volunteering in a health care setting but not very regularly; I also do some yearly volunteering with some social justice issues in my city. I'm not religious so places of worship are out in terms of volunteering. I guess I am mainly wondering how many volunteer hours are acceptable?
Thanks for the feedback!!
Can getting accepted to PhD programs, but not matriculating, be counted as an EC? Is that the question?I have a friend who is a non-traditional student. He studied IR and global politics, undergrad and masters. He applied to, and got into two prestigious Phd programs before deciding medicine. Can this be included in the activities sections?