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[PaperMaker]

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[Catalystik]

Did you apply early? Do you have confidence in yor Letters of Recommendation? What is NAMI and IVF (invitro fertilization)? Can you describe your clinical experience with sick people which appears to be wholly through your research?

 

[PaperMaker]

Did you apply early? Do you have confidence in yor Letters of Recommendation? What is NAMI and IVF (invitro fertilization)? Can you describe your clinical experience with sick people which appears to be wholly through your research?

I applied in June, but took the MCAT again 7/29 didn't get complete at most schools until sept. NAMI stands for National Alliance for Mental Illness which is a patient/family support group (My sister suffers from schizophrenia and I we were taking care of her through my undergraduate career). Clinical experience is largely through research as you stated through patient data collection, but also from shadowing docs.

 

[Catalystik]

You did very well in your SMP, and Georgetown has a good track record of its alumni getting acceptances. Not knowing how you described your clinical experience, I can't say how it will be looked at by adcomms. Certainly becoming Complete later has an impact. Hopefully, your Primary Statement wasn't all about your family member and included how you tested the vocation of medicine after you were inspired to pursue it. You still have 6 months of interview season in front of you, so its not time to panic yet. But I think it is wise that you continue to augment your ECs against the possibility of another application season. And if that happpens, applying to DO programs also is a good idea.

Did your Georgetown advisor look over your application and give it a thumbs up? If you worked with clients in the Pharmacy, did you highlight that component of the job so it could be viewed as more clinical experience? Did the sahdowing include an office-based primary care doc (terrific number of hours, BTW). Have you given consideration to broadening your clinical experience beyond patients with neurological conditions with some volunteering in a different milieu, maybe a hospital?

 

[PaperMaker]

Thanks for the notes, I've been trying to work on my clinical exposure other then shadowing but I can't seem to gety foot in the door as anything else. Any thoughts on how to go about that?