I "graduated" in 2014 from a public university, transferred there from a community college.
Quotes for graduated because I had been given wrongful approval for graduation by my academic counselor back in 2014 because my transfer credits did not cover one English course, with the help of the university I was able to complete that final course about a month ago and am an official graduate 6 years later (received an A, yay!). C/O 2020!
Between finishing up at university and now I worked as a medical scribe, I started another part-time job in the restaurant industry, which led to working as the Vice President of Operations of that company for a couple of years. I chose to resign from my corporate job last year in order to return to my pursuit of becoming a physician.
So, where do I go from here? My initial thoughts were to attend a GPA enhancement Post bac program -> study and take MCAT -> Apply for MD Programs.
I believe that my GPA is lackluster for MD programs, and I have a considerable gap in my academic profile, which is why I was leaning towards this path.
Are there other gaps in my application I should address?
Thank you so much in advance!
Stats:
Asian American, 30 years old, California Resident
cgpa: 3.5 spga: 3.6 (from university I transferred and graduated from)
MCAT: Not Taken
Research: 400 hours in Undergrad working in a Malaria lab, no publications
Medical scribe: 400 hours worked with Outpatient Internal Medicine
Other professional experience: Started as a food runner and after 2 years and 5 large promotions served as Vice President of Operations for 2 years for a multimillion-dollar restaurant company, 15 branches, and approximately 1000 employees at the time. The total length of time worked at company was 4 years.
Shadowing: 100 hours with an Emergency Department Physician, during these shifts I was able to witness hours in the Triage, the physician making rounds, and trauma bay calls, I plan to shadow at least 2 other specialties, delays due to COVID.
Non-Clinical Volunteering: While in college (mostly during summers) I volunteered on organizing and leading 2 trips to help with relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina, Led an English Camp overseas in Asia for the underprivileged, helped build houses and held English camps for underprivileged in Mexico, volunteered over 1000 hours serving youth at my local church as a leader, led as a council member for a multi-church organization aimed at equipping smaller underresourced churches for 7 years.
Clinical Volunteering: This has recently been very difficult due to COVID, but since June, I have been volunteering with a free COVID testing site and have served for over 100 hours so far. (I'm not sure if this would count as clinical experience but there have been nursing students from private universities helping out at the site for their "clinical rotations")
