Manipulating EC's

[canmed96]

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Hey i just had a couple more questions about EC's.

1. my mom is a doctor, would it be beneficial in any way to say that i got to shadow the home life of a physician for the past 19 years?

2. i volunteer in a hospital but it has different duties; cardiology volunteer- motivating patients on treadmills to keep going and such, or rehab volunteer just visiting them and hanging out
- would these different sections count as seperate ECs or all one under "Hospital Volunteer"


EDIT: I AM NOT PUTTING IT LIKE THIS ON MY APPLICATION, I MEANT AS SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT IN THE INTERVIEW
Thanks

 

[CowboyNiceguy]

I'm gonna say number one is a definite "no."

 

[Imperius]

1. Definite no.

2. Depends...are your different experiences in the hospital big enough to warrant using separate ECs? If not, don't pad them. You can hopefully find better things to fill your ECs with than using the same thing twice.

 

[piii]

lol

 

[canmed96]

by the way, i'm not talking about putting them on my application like this, i mean for an interview, wouldn't it show that i know how a physician's life is outside of the hospital?

 

[gyngyn]

by the way, i'm not talking about putting them on my application like this, i mean for an interview, wouldn't it show that i know how a physician's life is outside of the hospital?

You are a child of privilege. This is inevitably part of your story, but how you describe it can either show insight or a lack thereof. It belongs nowhere on your list of extra-curricular activities.

 

[Imperius]

by the way, i'm not talking about putting them on my application like this, i mean for an interview, wouldn't it show that i know how a physician's life is outside of the hospital?

On the AMCAS app, they ask for your parents highest level of education, so they'll know your mum is a doc. If they ask what it's like to grow up with a parent who's a doc, sure, explain it however you like. I think it's more likely that they will ask about what experiences you've gained through your life that made you want to be physician, not just because your mum is.

 

[Toutie]

1. A good percentage of applicants have physician parents. Your parents occupation will be on your application. They will obviously know that you, as a child of a physician, are aware of what a physicians home life is like. Including it as an EC would be somewhere between unnecessary and ridiculous.

edit: I guess I'm a bit late answering this. If you mean using it for an interview, I agree with what gyngyn said

 

[Goro]

The first think I think of when I see a candidate who is the child of a doctor is "Is this person being pressured to go into Medicine?"
I ask my interview questions accordingly. No, I'm not sharing.

The bolded is, frankly, lame.

Hey i just had a couple more questions about EC's.

1. my mom is a doctor, would it be beneficial in any way to say that i got to shadow the home life of a physician for the past 19 years?

2. i volunteer in a hospital but it has different duties; cardiology volunteer- motivating patients on treadmills to keep going and such, or rehab volunteer just visiting them and hanging out
- would these different sections count as seperate ECs or all one under "Hospital Volunteer"

Thanks

 

[attitudeofgratitude]

At some point you'll have to reveal your parent is in medicine. And they'll wonder if you're being pressured into it.


NO is the obvious answer.

But then turn it into a positive... You know the downsides of a career in medicine and STILL want to do it, and you remember how fulfilling it was for your parent.