I'm applying this cycle and left my clinical job in May to make time for other stuff (surgery, family vacations, applications). In that time, I've still been volunteering and doing some research part-time. I got an offer for a full-time clinical job in August, but that fell through after I found out the practice had a history of doing shady stuff and I didn't want to be a part of that. As of now, I'm mostly unemployed and I'm not sure how long it'll be before I find something. On my application, I didn't say anything about the gap and didn't mention that job that fell through. Will this gap be viewed negatively by admissions committees?
Jobless during application cycle
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Butalbusaur
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Hmm. Not to pry too much, but why didn’t you stick with your job? Job market for EMTs is wide open right now (though depending on the state you’re living in). I don’t know enough if it will be viewed negatively, unless you indicated that you had a set number of projected hours. Even then, I have read that projected hours aren’t that heavily weighted and it’s viewed as a way to give Adcoms an idea of what you’ll be doing during the application cycle.
