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A good option would be to delay submission a ?week until you start. Third option if it will be awhile, tack mention of it on to the end of another clinical activity, as in "This activity inspired my interest in xxx so I got a job at yyy, to start 6/2018."
An MM selections doesn't need to be related to medicine in any way, or even be an activity that helped you grow. It can be an experience you were passionate about for some reason. But teaching, as it happens, IS directly related to medicine. Being able to convey information to others so they retain it is a very useful skill to have when trying to educate patients about their condition, in discussing options for treatment and side effects, and during talks about prevention and healthy living. You don't need to connect those dots for adcomms though.
Chaperoning outings, not so much, but the other two roles you mentioned would be "clinical". Do you prefer to spin the activity one way or the other to help balance your application better?
1) Research-related publications, assuming they weren't published in a campus journal, deserve their own space. Take them out of the Research space and give them a Publications space where they can be found more easily if searched for. Don't list each one more than once.
1) No.
It might seem "weird" just because you'll be the only one to refrain (and I'm not saying it's a bad "weird" from my standpoint, as I'd be delighted to grow accustomed to the habit). Nontrads who are far away from their college years may use one space called, say, Significant/Summary of/or Relevant Undergraduate Activities, and will just make a list using themselves as Contact.
For the reasons you give in your last sentence, it's not a good idea to combine your research experiences into one space. That would be a strategy you might use if you preferred to be considered by schools whose missions are to produce (primary care) clinicians.
You could also change the gender. Or some identifying factor about the condition, if it's rare.
Yes. Go to the Main Menu and click Print Application on the right side.
Yes. Definitely split the hours into the two categories, each with its own dates. Even though you had no official title, you might name the space something like, Organization Roles For XXX Pep Band.
1) No, but it's interesting and relatively unusual.
If you already have plenty of nonmedical volunteering in a Volunteer/Community Service space, then what you did is fine. If you are sparse in that category, then best to add it to a catch-all Volunteer space and increase that space's Total Hours or list it on its own.
1) You might consider listing more detail about the top three hourly totals in reverse chronological order (listing the start/stop date and contact information for the first experience in the header. Next, mentioning the 3 separate experiences in the summary section, while noting dates and the specific subtotals of hours for #2&3), and then summarizing the rest with one sentence with subtotaled hours. If the activity was important, a more specific Contact is advisable, but otherwise your solution works fine.
The vast majority is nonclinical, but a small bit might be clinical. Most of the folks you screen for blood pressure and glucose will be normal, but a small number might not be and would be referred on. I think you'd be safest to call it nonclinical. Adcomms reading the description may or may not decide on their own that a portion of the activity belongs on the "clinical" side of your volunteering.
I won't be starting my clinical research coordinator position for my gap year until July. Obviously I can't put it in my AMCAS I'm submitting soon, but when would be the appropriate time to send update letters to the schools I'm applying to regarding this research (I don't have any research on my AMCAS app)?
1) Have you already researched which of your target schools have a Secondary prompt that will give you the opportunity to mention the new research coordinator job? For the others, I'd say you might send an update about it after you return the Secondary (if the school allows them pre-interview).
1) Enter a zero for total hours.
1) Maybe, [Name of Program] General Associate (2015-2016) and Coordinator (2016-2017). Your dates can be inclusive of the entire affiliation. Or, if it was academic year only, or you want to distinguish between the two years more clearly, you can use the Repeated feature to enter two datespans (all the total hours appear in the header).
Yes, considering the additional information, in theory I will agree with grouping the two research experiences that were of lesser interest to you in favor of one that is more impactful, makes sense. My only reservation is that the current research gig is of very brief duration.
You don't want to be repetitive if you can avoid it. Maybe instead you could give a sense of what the program does in the title: maybe using New Student Support Group for a Freshman Orientation Program, eg. Can you think of new words to say the same thing?
That sounds fine to me.
1) You could put the university name or possibly fit abbreviations of both journals in the space (but the latter requires repetition of the information, considering the citation).
