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Message: <blockquote data-quote="candbgirl" data-source="post: 22262239" data-attributes="member: 74303">What exactly is the clinical research you keep talking about?  You really don’t need research especially with your stats. You most likely won’t be applying to research powerhouses.  Depending on what you will be doing, your time might be better spent elsewhere. Roughly speaking you need:-200+ hours of direct patient clinical experiences, this can be paid or volunteer; but it must be direct patient interaction and it must with be patients not research subjects.-200+ hours of nonclinical volunteering to the unserved/underserved in your community;  this is your chance to show your altruism to the ADCOMS;  medicine is a service profession and you need to show you can work with people very unlike yourself, a chance to get out of your comfort zone and do something that will make a difference to others;-50 hours of shadowing , including a good chunk with a primary care doc. Building your application will not be easy or quick and you just have to accept that.  ADCOMS don’t have to overlook gaping holes in your applications, because they don’t have to.  There are hundreds/thousands of exceptionally qualified applicants.</blockquote>

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