First question then: where do you think you need serious improvement? I want a sense of your point of comparison.
Could you use the WAMC template and describe your activities with more detail?
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I think I need more clinical and community service. I personally feel I’ve had enough exposure to get a sense that being a physician is what I want, but I’m worried numerically that won’t come across.
I couldn’t find the template exactly, but I’ll give more detail:
- Hospital volunteering: in the ED I mostly get to talk to patients and their families and I get them water and blankets. In PT I got to distract some of the patients during an exercise (while PTs were the main people there, doctors regularly came through). I got to talk with the patients and their families while they waited, and I got to play games with some of the kids while they waited.
- Soup kitchen: serving hot food to community members, and cooking food sometimes. I get to interact moderately with the people eating, usually just small talk at the window while they get their food.
- Theater club: directing, producing, stage managing plays. I put this under leadership, because each role required leading a team in a different way. I built my communication skills and had to learn time management skills to handle everything. I was then elected conflict-resolution chair, meaning if anyone had any trouble within their play, they talked to me and I in turn set up mediations or one-on-one conversations with the people involved. I also provided more serious support when one member really hurt another member.
- Research: so I actually get paid for this to some extent, which is why I dedicate so much time to it (~25 hours a week). Basic bench work.
- Home caregiver: for a close family member. I get paid to do the above-and-beyond the usual family member stuff, so bathing and dressing and sometimes bathroom help if it’s really bad. Other than that I also cook and clean for this family member.
