Hi everyone,
I'd like to first say that I am immensely grateful for all of the advice and suggestions that I've been getting from this website since I started. I feel that I'm a bit late into my undergraduate years (currently a senior) to focus my attention on medical school, so everything that's been commented on my previous posts have been great appreciated.
My plan is to first take a gap year, and work as a medical scribe at a nearby hospital, before applying to a post-bacc program to take all the pre-requisites. But I was wondering if doing this Summer Public Health Scholars Program Internship with Columbia University before applying for a scribe position look good in my medical school application, or is it even worth it?
http://ps.columbia.edu/education/st...e-and-post-baccalaureate-students/summer-publ
I do want to apply for an MPH while in medical school so this is definitely up my alley of interest. The program is only about 2 months long, but that is 2 months that I could already be working as a scribe. And since I'll only have a year before I apply to a post-bacc program I want to maximize my time working and to show I was in that position for as long as I can.
If doing that internship would be looked at equally to a year position working as a medical scribe, then I'd potentially pick the scribe position more, especially since my gap year is primarily to save money for post-bacc tuition.
However, Columbia's medical school will eventually be a school I would like to apply to in the future, I wonder if adcomm would see my experience in that internship and see that I have history with their school, which would look good.
I also feel that there is a great chance of me getting that internship too if I did apply for it. (high cum GPA+, research background, ethnic status based on their "are encouraged to apply" section)
Also, since I will be a college graduate, there are very little summer internships I could do as a recent college graduate, and since I have not taken and courses in biology, chemistry, etc. that further limits my choices of internships.
I'd like to first say that I am immensely grateful for all of the advice and suggestions that I've been getting from this website since I started. I feel that I'm a bit late into my undergraduate years (currently a senior) to focus my attention on medical school, so everything that's been commented on my previous posts have been great appreciated.
My plan is to first take a gap year, and work as a medical scribe at a nearby hospital, before applying to a post-bacc program to take all the pre-requisites. But I was wondering if doing this Summer Public Health Scholars Program Internship with Columbia University before applying for a scribe position look good in my medical school application, or is it even worth it?
http://ps.columbia.edu/education/st...e-and-post-baccalaureate-students/summer-publ
I do want to apply for an MPH while in medical school so this is definitely up my alley of interest. The program is only about 2 months long, but that is 2 months that I could already be working as a scribe. And since I'll only have a year before I apply to a post-bacc program I want to maximize my time working and to show I was in that position for as long as I can.
If doing that internship would be looked at equally to a year position working as a medical scribe, then I'd potentially pick the scribe position more, especially since my gap year is primarily to save money for post-bacc tuition.
However, Columbia's medical school will eventually be a school I would like to apply to in the future, I wonder if adcomm would see my experience in that internship and see that I have history with their school, which would look good.
I also feel that there is a great chance of me getting that internship too if I did apply for it. (high cum GPA+, research background, ethnic status based on their "are encouraged to apply" section)
Also, since I will be a college graduate, there are very little summer internships I could do as a recent college graduate, and since I have not taken and courses in biology, chemistry, etc. that further limits my choices of internships.
