MSPE Noteworthy Characteristics

[Osteosaur]

Is anyone else finding this a miserable experience? I am trying right now to find good examples of comments, but most are ridiculous things like "Had a babby and completed her surgery rotation. I hate writing about myself and coming up with these three bullets. I got one for research. One for clinic volunteering. They feel run of the mill but its at least some meat.

For my last I want to try and do something personal. On one hand I have a good deal of evaluation comments going "Really good bedside manner, connects well with patients, professional...", so maybe that is a supported positive characteristic to speak to. Though I think its generic tripe most people get.

But part of me wants to be a little more memorable. I was considering mentioning a hobby I have. I don't want to really mention it on SDN for fear of outting myself. But mostly I question how a program director might view it as its a bit nerdy (in the realm of 'writes and publishes 3rd party D&D adventures - though not quite that). It seems like a gamble and I am not really the gambling sort. Though I feel so damn boring.

What do you guys put? Or does anyone have any better examples than those AAMC ones?

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[Redpancreas]

Is anyone else finding this a miserable experience? I am trying right now to find good examples of comments, but most are ridiculous things like "Had a babby and completed her surgery rotation. I hate writing about myself and coming up with these three bullets. I got one for research. One for clinic volunteering. They feel run of the mill but its at least some meat.

For my last I want to try and do something personal. On one hand I have a good deal of evaluation comments going "Really good bedside manner, connects well with patients, professional...", so maybe that is a supported positive characteristic to speak to. Though I think its generic tripe most people get.

But part of me wants to be a little more memorable. I was considering mentioning a hobby I have. I don't want to really mention it on SDN for fear of outting myself. But mostly I question how a program director might view it as its a bit nerdy (in the realm of 'writes and publishes 3rd party D&D adventures - though not quite that). It seems like a gamble and I am not really the gambling sort. Though I feel so damn boring.

What do you guys put? Or does anyone have any better examples than those AAMC ones?

Hey can you rephrase this? Seems like there's a combination of typos and phrasing making this hard for me to understand. Are you asking about 3 adjectives to describe you? If so, just pick three positive things your summative comments say that are good about you. If you're asked about it, bring up the summative examples and others. This should take less than an hour and no one seems to care about it. Don't bother mentioning a unique hobby. You can do that elsewhere.

 

[AzBasRad]

Strongly agree with the above from BacktotheBasics. I am interested to hear what current or former PDs have to say about this?
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[Osteosaur]

Hey can you rephrase this? Seems like there's a combination of typos and phrasing making this hard for me to understand. Are you asking about 3 adjectives to describe you? If so, just pick three positive things your summative comments say that are good about you. If you're asked about it, bring up the summative examples and others. This should take less than an hour and no one seems to care about it. Don't bother mentioning a unique hobby. You can do that elsewhere.

Wrote it on my phone in a bit of a panic, sorry!

Its not three adjectives. My school has write three two-sentence bullet points describing us for MSPE letters. AAMC guidance refers to this as "Noteworthy Characteristics". I got the sense this was fairly common?

Its probably nothing to stress over.

 

[Frogger27]

Pick 3 things that describe you and that you can highlight in 2 sentences. Think of it as if this person only read these 3 things, would they want to meet you??

I’ll give you mine:
1. Resiliency: talked about things I had overcome in my youth and Med school yet still performed well academically.
2. Mentor: talked about dedication to mentoring, going above and beyond what i would expect of an average student
3. Diversity advocate: discussed initiatives I had done in college and Med school to help advance diversity in higher ed