1) If you were selected as a nominee for your school for a fellowship (ie. Rhodes) but were not selected for the fellowship, is it still worth mentioning you were a nominee for your district as an honor?
2) If you had a lot of physician shadowing but through multiple clinical work experiences, is it okay to just mention the shadowing under those clinical experiences, rather than making a separate umbrella entry for it?
3) I needed to pay for everything during college, so I held multiple paid internships in hospitals, received lab funding, and worked as a paid tutor. Should I still just list these as activities like "research", "clinical experience", and "teaching/tutoring" and just mention the paid component in the description for each? I didn't continue my restaurant work in college because I was able to find so many opportunities that combined the money I needed with my academic interests.
4) a) Is it a bad idea to just list publications/presentations under the overall lab research entry?
b) I volunteered with multiple organizations so that will unfortunately take up a lot of my entries since you can only list one supervisor per entry and I therefore can't really have a single Volunteering entry.
1) Yes.
2) This is not ideal, as I've seen embedded shadowing missed when listed that way (and an ER scribe applicant criticized for having none, which is ridiculous). To counter that possibility, I'd suggest using the word Shadowing in the title you give each of those entries, as well as maybe giving an estimated total shadowing time at the end of each narrative
or an estimated % of time that you were in the physician's presence).
3) a) Research should always be listed under Research, IMO. Mention the funding.
b) Teaching/Tutoring gives you three choices, including Employment or Volunteer, depending, and you can pick the designation that best balances your application. Mention the paid aspect if you choose Teaching/Tutoring.
c) But since you were paid, you will have to list your clinical experience under Employment, as the only other good choice requires it to have been a volunteer position. So it is important that the Name you give the activiy make it clear it was patient-related experience.
4) a)If it were a campus poster or publication, it is preferred to list it with the associated Research description. If you presented your data at a national/regional meeting or published in a national journal, you'd want to put this accomplishment in the proper designated space (especially if you are applying to research-oriented schools). If the same data was both presented and published, you'd pick the more prestigious format to list, then mention the other venues in that same description.
b) Actually, you can group them, but you'd need to provide the other header information in the activity description. Some will break out the briefer experiences and list them under "Short-Term Community Service" or somesuch. Maybe you can free up some space that way. If they are all substantive, and you are aiming to get into a school with a humanistic orientation, you'd maybe leave them the way you've already done it.