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I suggest that you use the Repeated feature so the completed Total Hours and the Future Total Hours are separated (this will work if you use May 2016 for the last date of the first date span and the first date of the second date span). Alternatively, you could mention the future projected hours in the narrative, but not include them in a stand-alone Total Hours box.
Don't use an abbreviation that isn't universally understood unless you define it first, like Principal Investigator (PI).
Did you start with a problem to solve, group-think to come up with possible solutions, test solutions until one worked, then refined it, and came up with a final product: then if you're an author and it's not a campus magazine, it's OK to use a Publications space. Otherwise you could mention it in the same space where you discuss the project (Other is usually used for engineering project descriptions), use Other and name it XXX Publication in YYY Journal (or some such), or use Artistic Endeavors (if you wrote the paper personally), or use Teaching, if your aim was to educate. If I haven't covered your scenario, feel free to refine your question.
Dates could be abbreviated to 5/16-6/16, 1/14, and such, to save a few more characters. Add # of endoscopies. Didn't anything else exciting happen at a site that you could add? It's sorta vanilla the way it is.
If by "research" you mean something like a term paper or topic review that wasn't a hypothesis-based, scholarly discovery of new information, then no.
Don't ever feel obliged to fill a space. Succinctness is good.
It's confusing to many since the word "research" has variable meanings in the academic world.
Grouping the nonmedical community service is fine, but think of a better name that doesn't echo the tag you'll give the space.
Considering your topics, your Hobbies suggest qualities desirable in a physician, so will help you more. Mention the funding in a Research space. Your transcript already speaks to your academic excellence.
Related to this, I took a research methods course for my psychology major that required a semester long research project. Before reading this thread I had not even considered including this on my activities list. In small groups, we designed and executed an experiment, conducted all the statistical analysis (as our study had multiple independent variables, this was actually quite complicated!), and wrote a report of our findings. Should I consider describing this? I only have a little research experience to list and I do have an additional slot I could fill, but I don't know how relevant this would be.
If you had a stronger research activity, I wouldn't use it, but in your case, provided you used the scientific method (asking an original question, rather than repeating someone else's experiment), drew a conclusion that resulted in new knowledge, and wrote a potentially publishable manuscript, then you may enter it.
Focus on positives. Elsewhere, perhaps in an active clinical experience space, you might talk about how much you enjoy patient interaction, creating a plan for investigation of symptoms, and learning quickly the answers to patient mysteries.
So I also have 1 semester as a research assistant listed and over a year as a research coordinator, but that was my only experience designing my own experiment. Do you think it would be worth including?
If you aiming for highly-selective, research-oriented top schools, then yes, include it. Otherwise, I think you're covered.
I am glad to be reassured that you already know the drill. 😉
As you are applying MD/PhD, getting these into your application somehow would be highly important. They could all go into one Leadership space, just as you've written them, but you have to decide what other activity to remove or group with something else. If nothing will budge, what about inserting them into your MD/PhD research-related essay?
First response: Unless you are really weak in clinical, if you feel you have a legitimate shot at the top name-brand research schools, you would be better served to list this under Research, making the clinical and leadership components clear from the name you give the space.
Unless you have nonclinical volunteerism already well covered, use that tag.
2) As to using the prof as a Contact: This was a class, and is listed on your transcript with a grade. If he even gets a call, which seems unlikely, since the application itself speaks to what is needed for legitimacy, the professor should have no trouble confirming you took his class on research methods. AMCAS won't transmit your application until the end of June anyway, giving you plenty of time to email, if you want to remind him about your exact project.
You may use 1 or 2 slots. If the bulk of the shadowing was done with that one doc, and you want to be space-efficient, you could add as an addendum at the bottom of the MM space that you also shadowed 5 more docs in fields A, B, C for hh more hours (not included in the Total Hours slot) from m/12-mm/14, giving contact details for some/all if they fit, or not. Or, if you have space to burn, list the other 5 separately and give more detail. Either choice is fine.
There is no "Rule" but some things to keep in mind:
I agree with your advisor about the negative bias toward Greek life being out there, however I'd slightly restate it to say that it is some committee members that hold that view, not entire committees. Some adcomm members were in frats and sororities as students and might be supportive of your affiliation.
Yes.
1) Refer to the myriad docs as Staff Physicians in OBGYN, Surgery, Emergency Depts at XXX Hospital and Affiliated Clinics (list of specialties) and don't worry about naming them.
There's no one way to do it correctly, though I prefer #2. But I'd also add the start and stop date for each of the latter three in the narrative, besides what you mentioned.
1) Using as many of the provided tags as possible so as to have a balanced-looking application is a good idea, so as to appeal to the broadest possible array of schools. In general, when one moves up in an organization, having the back story of one's general membership in the same space helps give perspective. If the leadership component of one of your clubs was strong enough to stand on it's own, with just the dates and hours of leadership involvement listed, then pick that one for Leadership - Not Listed Elsewhere, especially if you plan to apply to highly selective "top" schools that aim to train future leaders in medicine. A hybrid approach would be to do the same as this latter suggestion, but mention the dates and total hours of general membership in the narrative, but don't include them in the Total Hours box for that section. Alternatively, you might have a second space for a discussion of the general membership component all by itself, again, if it's strong enough to stand alone.
