HELP: None of my most meaningful experiences are with healthcare

[rose403]

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I haven't been able to find a clear cut answer here, but basically, none of my most meaningful experiences in my eyes are *directly* medically related. Is this...ok? Should I try to switch one out? They indirectly tie to healthcare, but I can definitely talk about some of my clinical or shadowing experience instead.

1. ROTC
I cannot name another program that has tested me both physically and mentally like this program has. I plan on branching Medical Corps (obvi).

2. Autism Club Founder
My sister has severe developmental disorders, the main one being autism. I wanted to join autism speaks at my university, but the chapter had closed so I decided to start my own club. Again, could spend all day talking about the countless hours and work I put into getting this club recognized by the university and how I've progressed the club over the 2 years.

I could afford to lose this one as I've briefly mentioned it in my personal statement (since its about my sister and traveling hours to get proper specialists for her).But i could expand on it more.

3. Spanish community service

Since freshman year I've done "service-learning" and have tackled various projects for the hispanic community. As a child of two mexican immigrants, I've loved being able to work with my community. visiting a migrant worker farm was one of the most transformative moments of my life (literally, how are the conditions still LEGAL). I learned about the lack of access to healthcare in the area and about the factors that contribute to it. I've also learned how intercultural competence ties into quality of care and how effective you are while interacting with patients in various background. I would say it helped me be more efficient and empathetic during my clinical volunteering as well.

 

[Isoval]

Only read title.

So what?

 

[differentiating]

This isn't an issue. You don't have to have a healthcare-related experience as a most-meaningful one, and given that your listed activities include both leadership and volunteering, I think you're fine. I always ask students I interview about their most meaningful experience (aka, pick 1), and I don't dock points for non-clinical vs clinical. What matters is whether they can talk about it passionately and articulate why these experiences were so meaningful.

Your PS is where you talk about why you want to be a physician/etc., and you'll have a chance to expand on that in interviews as well.

 

[907914]

Your most meaningful activities should be just that: your most meaningful. You don’t need any of them to be medical as you should have sufficient healthcare experience/exposure demonstrated elsewhere in your app.

On a separate note: You know you have to get approval from ROTC command to move on to medical school without serving your commitment first, right? And that they will basically only approve it in the case of USHSU or HPSP? And the time commitments stack, I believe.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Your most meaningful activities should be just that: your most meaningful. You don’t need any of them to be medical as you should have sufficient healthcare experience/exposure demonstrated elsewhere in your app.

On a separate note: You know you have to get approval from ROTC command to move on to medical school without serving your commitment first, right? And that they will basically only approve it in the case of USHSU or HPSP? And the time commitments stack, I believe.

Also you cannot go to medical school through the Marine Corps as they do not have physicians. If you want to take care of Marines, you need to join the Navy.

 

[Catalystik]

given that your listed activities include both leadership and volunteering, I think you're fine.

And teamwork (ROTC).

 

[rose403]

Your most meaningful activities should be just that: your most meaningful. You don’t need any of them to be medical as you should have sufficient healthcare experience/exposure demonstrated elsewhere in your app.

On a separate note: You know you have to get approval from ROTC command to move on to medical school without serving your commitment first, right? And that they will basically only approve it in the case of USHSU or HPSP? And the time commitments stack, I believe.

Also you cannot go to medical school through the Marine Corps as they do not have physicians. If you want to take care of Marines, you need to join the Navy.

Yes I’m aware of all my options and the additional time commitment/benefits they each add. I’m under Army, and I’ve already looked into/talked to past members who have done Ed Delay, USUHS, or slotted as a medical student under NG to avoid delaying commitment. As a Texas resident, I most likely won’t need my school paid for so I’m looking at mostly Ed Delay without HPSP or NG.