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Started my third year and plan on applying to USMD schools the next cycle. I’m really concerned about my ECs primarily because I have zero clinical experience and shadowing. I was stuck in my home country freshman year( because I’m non-Canadian international) and my university was online for fall semester sophomore year- and that made getting clinical experience and other ECs hard .
I’m sharing my current profile to get some advice on what I could do to maximise my odds of getting into an international friendly US MD school next cycle.
Also - what schools do you think I could get in with my current profile.
South Asian male ( ORM)
cGPA : 3.985 , ECs :
Research ~ 700 hours ( 600 this summer at a hospital’s research program - overall research focuses on global health / public health);
Productivity : 1 8th author publication in a mid/low impact journal, two first author posters at a university conferences, one first author poster at a hospital research program.
Non-Clinical Volunteering : Teaching underprivileged students in my home country ~ 300 hours + Volunteer at needle exchange in 144 hours
Clubs : Co-Editor-in-Chief & Founding member of university public health journal( second and third year ), exec for UNICEF club( started third year), exec for debating society ( started third year )
Internships : 80 hours of qualitative research over two months at a union of sex worker in my home counters ; 3 months of an internship at a healthcare non- profit think tank in my country.
I’d love to get some feedback on my current profile - and understand what other activities I should optimise for. ( besides volunteering / shadowing )
It would also be useful to learn what med schools I might have a good shot at.
I’m sharing my current profile to get some advice on what I could do to maximise my odds of getting into an international friendly US MD school next cycle.
Also - what schools do you think I could get in with my current profile.
South Asian male ( ORM)
cGPA : 3.985 , ECs :
Research ~ 700 hours ( 600 this summer at a hospital’s research program - overall research focuses on global health / public health);
Productivity : 1 8th author publication in a mid/low impact journal, two first author posters at a university conferences, one first author poster at a hospital research program.
Non-Clinical Volunteering : Teaching underprivileged students in my home country ~ 300 hours + Volunteer at needle exchange in 144 hours
Clubs : Co-Editor-in-Chief & Founding member of university public health journal( second and third year ), exec for UNICEF club( started third year), exec for debating society ( started third year )
Internships : 80 hours of qualitative research over two months at a union of sex worker in my home counters ; 3 months of an internship at a healthcare non- profit think tank in my country.
I’d love to get some feedback on my current profile - and understand what other activities I should optimise for. ( besides volunteering / shadowing )
It would also be useful to learn what med schools I might have a good shot at.