How are you formatting the Misc. Section?

[drcocochanel]

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I originally just listed my awards/other awards/professional societies as one liners, similar to my CV with most recent listed first, relevant dates at end. For example:

American Medical Student Association (9/07-Present)
Greek Greek Greek Pre-Medical Honor Society (9/05-6/07)
Greek Greek Greek National Honor Society (9/05-6/07)
etc...

This looks relatively OK in the application form that you can view on ERAS, but on the CV form all the lines merge and it looks like:

American Medical Student Association (9/07-Present)Greek Greek Greek Pre-Medical Honor Society (9/05-6/07)Greek Greek Greek National Honor Society (9/05-6/07)

Any solutions? Should I just put semi-colons between each line?

Do programs even download the CV portion from ERAS?

 

[Brodmann]

I originally just listed my awards/other awards/professional societies as one liners, similar to my CV with most recent listed first, relevant dates at end. For example:

American Medical Student Association (9/07-Present)
Greek Greek Greek Pre-Medical Honor Society (9/05-6/07)
Greek Greek Greek National Honor Society (9/05-6/07)
etc...

This looks relatively OK in the application form that you can view on ERAS, but on the CV form all the lines merge and it looks like:

American Medical Student Association (9/07-Present)Greek Greek Greek Pre-Medical Honor Society (9/05-6/07)Greek Greek Greek National Honor Society (9/05-6/07)

Any solutions? Should I just put semi-colons between each line?

Do programs even download the CV portion from ERAS?

Here are some good hints:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=756614

 

[TGAmed]

Along the same lines, what are people doing with the hobbies section? Just list them (ie: running) or write a little blurb?

 

[notdeadyet]

Along the same lines, what are people doing with the hobbies section? Just list them (ie: running) or write a little blurb?

Just listing them:

Running, reading, writing, rithmatic

I'd personally avoid writing a blurb in the hobbies section or overdescribing volunteer activiites, research background, past jobs, or just about any text field on the application.

Having worked in business a lot of years and read applications, I promise that more applications are harmed by indigestion than starvation.

 

[Brodmann]

Just listing them:

Running, reading, writing, rithmatic

I'd personally avoid writing a blurb in the hobbies section or overdescribing volunteer activiites, research background, past jobs, or just about any text field on the application.

Having worked in business a lot of years and read applications, I promise that more applications are harmed by indigestion than starvation.

If in those hobbies mentioned in Misc. we have got some prizes or achievements, Is it better to put them in its place (hobbies and interests) or in the other awards/ accomplishments section?

 

[34140]

are people writing the explinations of their work experiences as bullets or paragraphs?

im doing paragraphs unless its better to do bullets?

 

[notdeadyet]

are people writing the explinations of their work experiences as bullets or paragraphs?

im doing paragraphs unless its better to do bullets?

Carriage returns don't come through on the Experiences section. You'll get a block of text.

 

[34140]

Carriage returns don't come through on the Experiences section. You'll get a block of text.

i used bullets and it showed up as bullets when you review your application.

regardless, i going with paragraphs

 

[notdeadyet]

i used bullets and it showed up as bullets when you review your application.

regardless, i going with paragraphs

I'm confused with how you're getting actual bullet points and carriage returns on your Experiences section.

Are seeing this on myERAS (which will show them) or CV (which will not)?

Are you using HTML? If so, bad juju because the HTML will show to the PDs and make your app very hard to read...

 

[34140]

I'm confused with how you're getting actual bullet points and carriage returns on your Experiences section.

Are seeing this on myERAS (which will show them) or CV (which will not)?

Are you using HTML? If so, bad juju because the HTML will show to the PDs and make your app very hard to read...

sorry for the confusion, i do see them as bullets on JUST my application, but not on my CV
on my application they show up as

-asa
-asdaf
-asda

on my CV it looks like

-asdfa -asdfa -asdfa

sorry for the confusion