non-medical work experience as an EC?

[kam730]

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I am just curious if non-medical work experiences (eg. restaurants) should be included as post-secondary experience. Have any of you included such experience?

 

[UCLA2000]

Is it an ec or a job? If it's a job then list it under work experience... (it's on secondaries I dunno if it's on the primary)

 

[Spiderman [RNA Ladder 2003]]

I worked at many jobs but I included only the ones that were related to medicine to show some of my personal qualities. Who cares that I was sorting mail for 6 months?

 

[kam730]

I am just talking about regular jobs (waiting tables, cashier, etc.). I wondered if it might be beneficial to include them simply as further evidence of having developed good people skills. But, I dont know what adcoms are looking for really.

 

[Spiderman [RNA Ladder 2003]]

If it did help you to communicate more effectively, I think that it is worth of mentioning it. I had a quite a bit of medicine related experience so I did not really have any space either in my personal statement or EC list for anything else.

 

[Doctora Foxy]

I grade math papers as a job and I listed that...
If you had a job, that took up a lot of your time, so I think you should list it for that reason. If you have gaps in time with no activity, they'll wonder, so you should probably just list it.