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Phone time can count as direct patient contact, but whether you'd call the entire experience "clinical" would depend on how much of your work day is spent talking to those patients. If it's minimal, best to call in nonclinical, but still mention the patient interaction in your narrative and let adcomms decide if they want to upgrade it.
You can mention both, if both are relevant to their position (like a faculty member or PI). However, eg, if a boy scout pack leader just happens to have a DO, there's no need to mention the academic credentials or refer to them as Doctor or mention the DO. If a boss and business owner happens to have a PhD, you'd just say his title is Business Owner. If I'm not quite hitting what you need to know, feel free to ask further.
You are not obliged to mention the failure if you decide to list it as an activity. Businesses close all the time without folks being told the reason why. But you'd have to be prepared for probing questions from adcomms that might go where you aren't prepared to answer.
Title might include academic credentials, like MD, RN, PhD, or title within the organization, or both if both are relevant to the position: Example:
However, eg, if a boy scout pack leader just happens to have a DO, there's no need to mention the academic credentials or refer to them as Doctor or mention the DO. If a boss and business owner happens to have a PhD, you'd just say his title is Business Owner.
1) The name of the sponsoring entity, eg the conference name.
You have well above the usual hours for shadowing, so being vague about some details won't hurt you. One possibility: Give info about the 3-5 top duration docs (or maybe those with the same Contact or the same location) and refer to the rest as, "Shadowed YY other adult specialties, including (name three others) for a subtotal of XX hours." Be sure primary care docs are specified.
First name: Jane
Use a phone number.
You don’t need both. It says one or the other is mandatory. I only have one or the other on all my activities. (Edit: except hobbies, which don’t need any.)
When I enter the 2019 AMCAS Work/Activities section it says (Providing an email address or a phone for your contact is required). I am able to enter a phone number and save the entry. Could you be missing another required field?
You would mention them in the same space with the position where you used them. If you never used the resulting certification, no one will care.
I think it's nice when the title of the research space gives more specific information about what you'll describe, which isn't possible when multiple experiences are listed in the space. A name like Exploration of (Gene Name) Role in (Disease) or (Gene Name) Role in (Disease) Project, or similar, would be suitable.
Fit them in. Abbreviate if you must. If the same data was presented at more than one venue, list the most prestigious, summarize the rest, or omit any that took place on your campus.
If you want research to be counted as clinical volunteering, you'll need to be very convincing in your description that the study participants are current patients and that you are providing a benefit to them in the context of their current condition.
A full citation is preferred, but when one is limited in space, a truncated title and PubMedID# will do.
A just-begun activity is best kept for Secondary essays that are pertinent, but you can sometimes sneak mention of your plans into the application as an addendum to another activity in the same category, eg, "Because of such and such, I was inspired to get involved in so and so, so I will be . . . .". (Best to mention intended hours/week rather than an hourly total.) Alternatively you might be able to mention it gracefully in the PS with a similar segue (but no projected hours).
Would you define it as Research/Nonclinical if the clinical research was in admitted ICU/ED patients and involved informed consent, placing orders, collecting vitals, conducting physicals with PI, etc.?
Sounds convincingly clinical. If you want to list it as such, be sure to underemphasize routine data collection/data entry and spin it to a patient focus.
Sounds good. I should have plenty of room to do so since it is a most meaningful experience.
I'd call it Research.
1) e-pubs in well-known journals count as publications. Abstracts published in conference proceedings booklets do not. I am not a fan of DOI, but use it if you have to (it's probably just me). You can find examples of formal e-pub citation styles online.
I am providing guidelines, not immutable laws. There isn't one correct way to do this. But you want to avoid repetition and you want to keep things together to keep the context, where possible. You also want to be succinct.
I'd agree with approach #2.
1) Listing a student officer is generally one's best recourse for the reason you mentioned. The reason it's more desirable to have a faculty advisor who knows the depth of your involvement is that they are likely to be more objective. But keep in mind the contact is only meant to confirm your timeframe and general hours of involvement, not to provide a reference.
Actually I have another question. I refer to patients as "he" or "she" in my personal statement and activities (different patients), do you think that is OK? I'm probably being ridiculous, but I feel comfortable not violating HIPAA referring to them as such.
1) You can put it in the Activities section if you want, but I suggest honing it down from including the pursuit of an entire degree, to maybe just the experience of the dissertation, from which you can expound on inspirational background activities (like coursework). Including the hours spent on MPH coursework isn't necessary or desirable as your classes will be on your transcript.
Can you give me an example of a sentence that you're worried about?
If you're not using other pronouns in the same sentences that refer to other people, you should be fine.
