How often I must shadow dentists during my postbacc years?

[clubwestpua]

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I am going to take 2 gap years before applying to d schools. I am currently working at NIH as a postbacc research fellow. Here are my general stats.



Undergraduate years

Major: Biochemistry
GPA: 3.76
sGPA: 3.72
Upper trend (3.67 freshman, 3.97 senior)
DAT: TS 24, AA 23, PAT: 21


(1) Dental Shadowing
60 hours general dentist (Spring, Summer 2012)

(2) Dental Volunteering
60 hours at student clinics (Spring, Summer 2012)

(3) Undergrad research
3 years, scholarship, poster, 2nd author, honors thesis (summa cum laude)

(4) Nondental volunteering
Big Brothers and Big Sisters (1 year)
community service through pre-health club (90 hours)
Homeless medical clinic (3 years)


Current Activities
(1) NIH IRTA Postbacc research fellow
- helping postdocs, learning cutting-edge techniques, and getting publications
- working and constructing an independent project to aim for my own first author publication

(2) NIH NIMH Health Disparity Fellowship program
- reading papers regarding health disparity research and discuss with leaders in NIMH and health disparity research field

(3) President of a community service club at my church
- arranging meetings to discuss and devise projects once every other week
- participating in projects once a month or every other month

(4) NIH FAES Graduate School
- Taking several courses like anatomy, embryology, epigenetics



So my question is, how often I should shadow this year? I will be applying during 2013 cycle.

 

[periopocket]

Not often..maybe just near the end rite before you apply so you have a recent log in, stats are key in this, and this in addition to your NIH-post-bacc program will make you a top applicant at nearly every school...enjoy your time off, and GL!