1) Giving priority to good grades was the right thing to do, but be aware that not all med schools will be fine with passive shadowing as the sole source of patient experience.
Your advice is much appreciated! My EMT clinicals did encompass hands on patient care training and I wrote about that in the description. I'm hoping between that other aspects of my application it'll be enough to get a secondary, and then be able to address it there with a scribe job. Fortunately I am a Texas resident which allows me to add any activity I plan to do by Oct 1st as a current activity so I'll be adding it there on TMDSAS, but that won't be possible for Baylor.
"EMT-B Training" as an activity name might not be enough to signal what you want adcomms to notice during a quick reading. Might you add to it to include a suggestion that it involved hands-on patient care?
I changed the title to "EMT-B Clinical Training" and listed it under "other" category as you earlier suggested. How does that sound?
That the experience has only been one month in duration does not take away from the importance of the impact it's had on you. Go for it.
Ok great, Thank you for all your help!
1) Do you have enough to say to address all three research-related essay areas (2 MM +1 Research essay) +one Why MD/PhD essays without being overly repetitive and including fresh material in each?
AMCAS will not correct an error like this, whether pre- or post-verification. And you are right, it is a negligible mistake, easily explained as a typo. It is not a red flag.
Why not use that employee as your confirmatory Contact rather than the volunteer office? Show them your log of hours and be sure you're in agreement in case they get a letter about you.
1) That sounds reasonable.
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Yes, go ahead and list it, using yourself as the Contact. But consider grouping it with some other short-term volunteerism that will make for a more-impactful number of total hours.
1) It matters because when screeners are scoring your application, they will be looking for shadowing under a Shadowing tab and you don't want to take a chance that the extra 50 hours will be missed. Also, your lower hours as listed right now do not meet the minimum standard for those med schools that specify a certain number of hours.
I think sending him a photo of the tablet with your recorded hours is fine, assuming your name is on the record. He could send it back with his name, title, and a statement of agreement and a date in a message. Could that work?
Until you have graduated and have that Summa Cum Laude designation on your diploma or your transcript, it is a future recognition that has not yet been conferred (as of this month). Did you plan to wait to submit until after you graduate? If not, don't list it. You can rely on your transcript information, that you've entered into the application program, to speak for itself and demonstrate that you excelled above and beyond in your recent coursework.
Okay Thank You!
You can't include an unknown school on your transcript. Where did you think to mention it on the Primary?
1) Include the coordinator for the first position listed in the header and the other two in the narrative.
Thank you for your response! I was thinking of putting it in my work/activities section but I can see why I shouldn't as I haven't committed to one program yet. Most of the programs I applied to have a linkage program- and I figured if I'm going to send in my AMCAS app, I might as well add a few more schools and send them updates of my grades along the way. I would love to get your feedback on this strategy
1) Secondaries would be a good way to communicate the information if given an appropriate prompt.
That makes a lot of sense, thank you so much! I'll be strategic about my school list
Using Conferences Attended spaces adds little value to your application unless you were a keynote speaker, received a major recognition, were an organizer, or held some other leadership role. If the conference gave you an opportunity to do a poster or podium presentation, that should be listed elsewhere tagged with a label where application screeners can easily find it (Presentations/Posters), and with the name of the conference included.
awesome, thanks!
Yes. Even failures can provide good experiences to learn from.
Shadowing is an essential activity, but one that can be completed very rapidly in large chunks of time. Why not hold off on applying so you can spend a week getting in forty hours of primary care physician shadowing to "check the box" so to speak?
What is your role for these projects?
The point of "research" for a pre-med is to gain an understanding of the scientific method. Reading the grant proposals (and maybe some of the background papers) is a giant leap toward gaining a global understanding of the projects you're helping with, so that you could potentially discuss them in a knowledgable way with interviewers. You don't need your own project, though that is a plus. You don't need to write for grants, though that is a plus. You don't need to author a paper, but that is a plus, too. Aside from some of your mouse-wrangling duties, I'd call this a research experience. The more you provide creative input and troubleshoot, and the more you gain in responsibility, the better.
For AMCAS, publications will be looked for under a Publications tab. Podium presentations or posters that took place off campus should be in a Presentations/Posters space. There is a category for awards and recognitions, too. Fellowships can be mentioned there or in a Research space if you have enough room. You can get more characters for description by designating an experience as Most Meaningful (the usual 700 +another 1325).
You can list the office as a Contact like this:
If you are directly instructing other members of the congregation, label it Teaching. If you are the coordinator of other Bible Study facilitators (and don't personally instruct), then it's Leadership. If it were both, you have the choice of using the Teaching tag and including the leadership role in the name you give the activity or splitting the experience into two spaces, each with the appropriate tag and its own dates and total hours, taking care not to double count any hours. I wouldn't suggest the latter if the hours for each aren't strong enough to stand on their own.
I like that you reordered it by an important parameter that would take too many spaces to include individually. Some "soft" suggestions:
Thank you!!
