MSAR: Medically-Related Work

[PeterPesto]

Does this mean clinical experience? For instance, if I perform volunteer phebotomy and triage work at a health clinic, will this qualify as medically related work?

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[WeAreNotRobots]

Yes. Uh, unless there's a volunteer category. Honestly haven't seen an msar in a few years.

 

[slatermd]

Does this mean clinical experience? For instance, if I perform volunteer phebotomy and triage work at a health clinic, will this qualify as medically related work?

what page are you looking at, broski? I couldn't find this.

I would imagine this is talking about paid medically related work. However, for the purpose of your application clinical experience is clinical experience, paid or otherwise.

 

[PeterPesto]

For each school, it lists the percentage of accepted applicants with community service / volunteer, medically related work, and research.

Although it is volunteer, it is also medically related work I imagine because it qualifies as clinical experience?

 

[slatermd]

For each school, it lists the percentage of accepted applicants with community service / volunteer, medically related work, and research.

Although it is volunteer, it is also medically related work I imagine because it qualifies as clinical experience?

I see what you mean...tricky little bastards. Yeah, volunteer and community service is anything. Medically related must be clinical experience.

 

[LizzyM]

My MSAR is in my office but I'm going to pour over it on Monday to see if I can figure out how they derive that statistic. I think it comes from the AAMC application but I'm unsure; what gets classified as "volunteer, clinical" certainly fits and may be all they use although employment either military or non-military could certainly count too in some instances but would require a more advanced algorhythm to pull that data from the AMCAS applications.

 

[Geekchick921]

I always took it to mean either clinical volunteering or a paid clinical job, but like LizzyM said, it would be a lot more time consuming for them to sort through the paid employment listing in the AMCAS for the year and count all the clinical jobs listed in those categories.

Basically, I'm not really sure.

 

[slatermd]

FWIW the lowest percentage I saw for any school under medically-related work was 73%. Most schools were in the 80 - 90% range. If that stat is referring only to paid experience I'm going to have to change my game plan 😉

 

[Geekchick921]

FWIW the lowest percentage I saw for any school under medically-related work was 73%. Most schools were in the 80 - 90% range. If that stat is referring only to paid experience I'm going to have to change my game plan 😉

This is part of the reason why I think it applies to both paid and volunteer clinical experiences.

 

[LizzyM]

This is part of the reason why I think it applies to both paid and volunteer clinical experiences.

I do believe it may be just "volunteer, clinical" as it is easy to determine if an applicant did or didn't have one or more experiences with that tag.

And I'd add that I'd take it with a grain of salt because some of those "volunteer, clinical" items as B.S., but not B.S. enough to keep an otherwise qualified applicant from being admitted.

Keep in mind, too, that those who don't have any "volunteer, clinical" might have a summer or more of f/t work in a cinical setting (orderly, nurse's aide, RN, medic, etc) so that 20% with no "medically related work" might actually have some but it wasn't picked up by the computer program/database.