If you were to choose only 3 extracurriculars for a Pre-Med student, what would they be?

[Algorit123]

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If you were to choose only 3 extracurriculars for a Pre-Med student, what would they be?

 

[freedoctor17]

Academic: Shadowing, Clinical Volunteering, and Research.

But I'd also wanna kill myself if that's all I did so if "fun" EC's are part of the limited three then...

Some sort of club you enjoy (for me it would be a sport), volunteering (clinical and non), and some sort of teaching.

Second three are just my personal three favorite things but obviously not best for a premed.

 

[Sharknad0]

Clinical volunteering/work, underserved volunteering, research.


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[Lawpy]

If you were to choose only 3 extracurriculars for a Pre-Med student, what would they be?

Find a productive research lab where you can present at national meetings and publish papers.

Volunteer in a free health clinic in an underserved area.

Pursue leadership roles in an organization you care about and make a lasting impact.

 

[deleted480308]

Get good grades, volunteer once a week, have some sort of haelth or service industry job

 

[Robin-jay]

I were to choose what I personally thought was most important, it would be:

1. Healthcare/Non-health care volunteering
2. Shadowing
3. Research
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4. Clinical employment

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

I were to choose what I personally thought was most important, it would be:

1. Healthcare/Non-health care volunteering
2. Shadowing
3. Research
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4. Clinical employment

Considering you need clinical experience (either voly or paid) and non-clinical volunteering, I’m not sure how fair it is to lump them together.

 

[Robin-jay]

Considering you need clinical experience (either voly or paid) and non-clinical volunteering, I’m not sure how fair it is to lump them together.

Eh. This is my own personal list. If you told me to make a list consisting of what ADCOMs care about, I'd probably separate them.

 

[Matthew9Thirtyfive]

Eh. This is my own personal list. If you told me to make a list consisting of what ADCOMs care about, I'd probably separate them.

Fair enough.

 

[Goro]

If you were to choose only 3 extracurriculars for a Pre-Med student, what would they be?

Habitat for Humanity
Hospice
Shadowing.

 

[Can'tdecide111]

Habitat for Humanity
Hospice
Shadowing.

I want to like this one million times! If you like all three, you'll love medicine! 🙂

 

[The Knife & Gun Club]

Clinical Research that allows for opportunities to shadow

Some kind of art (take a class or two in undergrad to show commitment)

Leadership role in an activity of your choice to show responsibility.

At least that’s what I did. Research project that involved me consenting patients covered clinical and research, sculpture class for art, and president of my fraternity for leadership.

My SO had a research project where she had to measure lengths of patients digits, guitar playing, and president of an AIDS awareness organization.

I think art is an undervalued EC. Adcoms love seeing people who have passions outside medicine!

 

[LoveBeingHuman:)]

Netflix, Hulu, and HBO

 

[Lucca]

1. Volunteering at a free clinic / high need clinical environment

2. Research, basic or clinical

3. Some personal passion or interest (ballroom dancing, poetry, movie making, radio shows, student theatre, cycling, athletics, literally anything that shows you’re a regular human being).

 

[SpoiledMilk]

Have sex. Have more sex. Have even more sex.

**Assuming that once you matriculate and the running starts, you will either be too worried, too busy, and/or too tired to think about anything else but school/patients...

 

[jqueb29]

Volunteer, research, Greek life leadership