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No, definitely don't post it here.
I would list it as a hobby. And I guess its kinda like facebook layout where you can see stuff on a wall and if you click on my content, I have my own dedicated page that has all of my stuff and nobody else. And no account needed because all of my profiles are public so anybody can google my user name and see whats on there (except facebook obviously cuz I use that for friends only)
After googling the names of these two sites and learning about them, I think it would be fine to list your involvement under Hobbies, along with some sort of "mission statement" if it has a unified theme.
Use one sentence to explain the project in lay language your mom would understand. Get technical after that if you like, but parse it down to be as susccinct as possible. You need to fit your role into the space, too, and maybe some of the techniques you learned. Then impact or what you learned (if you choose & if you have space). Your limit on details will be the 700 character cutoff point. Be sure to include that you navigated the IRB process or wrote for a grant.
My application overall is about increasing LGBT+ visibility and healthcare resources in underserved areas (I have a rural background and we had almost no LGBT health resources) so I would tie it into increasing visibility because I didnt see anybody like me serving as physicians when I was growing up and it was slightly discouraging when people said "oh well most gays go into nursing. Why aren't you doing that?"
Ideally you'd differentiate between hours completed and hours projected, either by using the Repeated feature (same month ends the first span and begins the second) or by listing completed hours in the header and saying in the narrative what your future plan is. If the future hours are in any way uncertain, best to leave them off and just say that it's your intention to continue the activity through xx/yy/zz.
Do not count the time you slept, ate, or engaged in personal grooming or socialization with co-volunteers.
Ideally, each research project would have its own space. As that's not always possible grouping them into 1-2 spots would be fine. Or you can make them MM and put them all in one spot to get more description space.
I think I'll try to keep them separate, then! Hopefully it won't seem too redundant when I list the responsibilities of my role, which were similar across the position. Thanks!
Either bullet points or narrative description is acceptable to use, depending on what communicates best what you'd like to convey. But if you start with one format, you should maintain it for that entire space (700+1325 characters).
I didn't know this was recommended. I currently have 14 entries. I have tried to limit the number of entries I include so adcoms don't have to read through more than necessary.
I think your word "recommended" is too strong. There isn't one right way to do it. If keeping a research entry on its own would make for a boring space, then by all means, group it. Succinct is good!
) with the editing, writing abstracts, preparing the bibliographies, and making figures for all of the other chapters. We're listed in the Acknowledgements as the authors of the chapter we wrote along with our pictures, but not as authors for the overall book (ie if you google the book, it just says our PI is the author so we would not appear in the citation).
If the PI comes through with mentioning that you wrote the book chapter in his LOR, you'll be fine to claim coauthorship for it in a Publications space and to properly cite it. Hopefully the PI will also give you credit for the other contributions you made to his book.Hey @Catalystik if you have a free moment I'd really appreciate your input
So another undergraduate in my research lab and I wrote a chapter for our PI's inorganic chemistry textbook and helped (and when I say 'helped' I mean did on our own
I know acknowledgments don't really count for anything, but considering the amount of work that went into putting this textbook/chapter together I was wondering if there was a way for me to list this on AMCAS? My PI has said that he will include it in his LOR, so if he does that could I list this as a publication for just the chapter I helped write? Or should I mention it some other way?
Thanks for helping us all out here, you rock!
hobbies doesn't ask for a contact.
1) a. If it was "Accepted with minor revisions" you can list it (but if they are minor, why will it take until the end of the summer?).
You could also list a long-term tutee or their parent, or a person who referred clients to you, or a teacher if there is a cluster of clients from the same class.
If you were to divide out the leadership component of the first mentioned activity, it looks like each of two spaces would have a significant number of hours to list, so using two spots seems reasonable, with the side benefit of more space to discuss the various roles you took.
The fact that you will not be personally involved makes listing it iffier (to me) as you have no control over timing and specifics. If you can't pin down the responsible person to a definite plan, consider waiting and using a publication as a most excellent highlight of a future update letter during the application season.
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Don't worry about it. This is a bug reported in the AMCAS software for about the last three seasons. Ignore it and move on.
Coaching is considered to be a form of teaching. You could list both in a Teaching space and make clear that one was paid and the other volunteer in your descriptions.
I would not list it under "Publications" or "Honors/Awards". "Other" would work. If you got paid, you could also pick "Employment".
If you have the space, you might list the club sport on its own (hopefully there's a captain or faculty advisor to act as Contact) and the less-formal intramural sports under Hobbies (as you won't need a Contact) or Extracurricular.
1) So long as there is more US physician shadowing listed, you can include international shadowing, too. Of course, you will leave yourself open to interview questions about "Compare and contrast healthcare systems in the two countries," if you include it.
1) If the poster was presented at a campus event, mention in the affiliated Research entry. If it was a regional or national conference, put it in a Posters/Presentations space. Regardless, give credit to the actual presenter, even if you just refer to them as the third author, or somesuch.
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I suggest you make it clear that you have 60 hours done at the time of applucation. You can do this by using the Repeated feature to divide your Total Hours into completed vs future hours, using the current month as the end of datespan1, but also the beginning of datespan2. Or, you can list only the completed hours in the header and note the future hrs/week and projected hours in the narrative.
Those who were active military recently can break their time down into multiple categories, if applicable, like Military, Leadership, Teaching, Awards/Honors, and if it's distnctive enough to be different from what you want to say about military service, eg, Employment-Clinical. Each would have their own hours and dates, not double counting the hours.
I think you are fine to include it at the end your narrative list of shadowing experiences, as an addendum (location, contact, anticipated hours). But I would not include it in the Total Hours of the header.
