Listing 1-day seminar in ECs?

[voirlesetoiles]

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I went to a seminar regarding cultural competency for healthcare professionals. The entire thing was approx. 4 hours long. Attending this seminar has made me understand the importance of physicians being aware of a patient religion/culture and accomodating that....

But now the question is, to list or not to list on AMCAS? Big impact on me, but only 4 hours long... just one day. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

 

[BigRedPremed]

Save it for the interview or personal statement.

 

[riceman04]

I went to a seminar regarding cultural competency for healthcare professionals. The entire thing was approx. 4 hours long. Attending this seminar has made me understand the importance of physicians being aware of a patient religion/culture and accomodating that....

But now the question is, to list or not to list on AMCAS? Big impact on me, but only 4 hours long... just one day. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

I say no...you probably have better things to include

 

[chickenlittle84]

If you have other cultural competency activities, you could mention it as a sidenote in one of the descriptions. For example, I shadowed pediatric residents for a day in the same hospital that I was doing research...I didn't think one day of shadowing was enough for me to give it my own box, so I just mentined it as a sidenote to the research...or when you are talking about a clinical experience that came after the seminar, you could say something like the The awareness I gained about the importance of culture for health helped me serve x population becuase of y....whatever, you get the point.

 

[voirlesetoiles]

I agree with the comments.... not suited for an individual EC box. I didn't think of including it in my PS, good idea.

chickenlittle... I don't have any other cultural comptency activities to link it to another EC. But as suggested, I'm going to discuss how it impacted my international service activities in my PS.

Muchos gracias for the comments.