How is my research experience/overall application looking?

[trinneh]

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Hi everyone, I'm a junior pre-med who was published in research at my school's college of nursing. I worked with a faculty member who has his PhD in Nursing from UCSF to look at how to improve RN's medical knowledge through continuing education modules. The paper was worked on only by he and I, which I guess makes me second author. I spent about a semester on it.

I know its great to be published, but should I look into something more lab-based to add to my application?

Just for background, this is what my overall app is looking like thus far:
URM female, 3.65/3.45 at top 30 school, taking MCAT this summer and shooting for 32+, founder of a volunteer organization that encourages minority students to explore medical careers, volunteer coordinator of UNICEF at my school, live-in resident assistant for freshmen, inspired to go into medicine after personal loss to AIDS epidemic, taking a gap year in which I hope to get more involved in HIV/AIDS relief in underserved areas

If there's anything besides research that you guys think I should also look into adding before I apply next year, please let me know. Thanks!

 

[Keladry]

If there's anything besides research that you guys think I should also look into adding before I apply next year, please let me know. Thanks!

Any shadowing? That would be good to have, just so you can "prove" you know what it's like to be a doctor.

If you have the chance to do lab-based research, I'd say go for it, but I don't think it's really necessary. My only research is going to be a malacological survey of an island, so yours is worlds more medical than mine 😛

 

[trinneh]

Any shadowing? That would be good to have, just so you can "prove" you know what it's like to be a doctor.

If you have the chance to do lab-based research, I'd say go for it, but I don't think it's really necessary. My only research is going to be a malacological survey of an island, so yours is worlds more medical than mine 😛

Yeah, I forgot to mention that in my senior year of HS I was in a special program that allowed me to shadow different physicians roughly 10 hours per week for the entire year, so hundreds of hours of really cool experience. Thanks for your response!

 

[Boolean]

Yeah, I forgot to mention that in my senior year of HS I was in a special program that allowed me to shadow different physicians roughly 10 hours per week for the entire year, so hundreds of hours of really cool experience. Thanks for your response!

You really do not want to include high school stuff (unless you were like an intel finalist or something). Typically your shadowing or volunteering needs to take place once you've entered university

 

[trinneh]

You really do not want to include high school stuff (unless you were like an intel finalist or something). Typically your shadowing or volunteering needs to take place once you've entered university

Ah, that's a shame. I've done some shadowing since college too so I suppose I'm fine either way.