My father works at this hospital, so he put me in touch with each of the doctors I shadowed. I didn't really check in anywhere, I just arrived at each doctor's office or department. For the two that I do have contact info, one was for 3 hours, the other was the person with whom I did most of my shadowing, and who wrote me a LOR.
Why not list the doc with the majority of the hours in the header and then after that description say, "Also shadowed 6 other surgeons from various specialties in the same department for xx hours included above. This included office hours and OR time." (If you have plenty of room, you can list the subspecialties.) If you shadowed your dad, that's fine to include, as well.
1) Any research experience, whether for class credit, pay, or volunteer, can be listed in the Work/Activities area.
oh woops. thank you
Yes, you can group them, but keep in mind that you can't assume a reader of your Activities will also have access to the PS.
Also, how do you suggest I write the hours?
I suggest a grand total for all three in the Total Hours space, with subtotaled hours and individual datespans for each of the three clinics in the narrative. Or you can do as you suggested.
It's fine to use different styles in each activity space.
Insert the word "unknown" in the space, if you can't discover it some other way.
Got it, thanks!
Sorry, I have no suggestion to offer. Maybe it will make you feel better to edit them all into the same format.
That would be a good use for the Repeated feature.
Many applicants don't include any future hours. So, no need to explain, especially this application season when so many activities have been interrupted by COVID-19 concerns.
Use the tag Extracurricular or Other (both are good choices for an experience with multiple sub-components). Name the space something that suggests both your clinical involvement on the trips and the leadership. Since you want to highlight the clinical aspect, maybe something like Wilderness First Responder and Backpacking Trip Leader. Within the narrative, possibly give a suggestion of what percent of your role was related to caregiving.
1) Yes.
Thank you for your response.
1) That works, or you could enter an all inclusive block of time and add the words Academic Year to the name of the space (assuming you don't participate in the summer).
If you have no other awards, honors, recognitions, or significant scholarships to mention, you can safely leave it out, as your GPA speaks for itself. An exception would be if you only recently started to excel academically and you want a chance to highlight that.
How prestigious was the competition? How much do you have to say about it?
I suggest entering the hours of active engagement and planning in the Total Hours space and a comment in the narrative, "In addition to the above hours, group leaders are on-call all night and responsible in case of problems."
Wasn't prestigious so I'll keep it in the description. Thanks!
That would be best, in that case.
No, it wouldn't be a red flag not to mark it, but if you do feel it's worthy of MM status, and you have additional anecdote. insight, impact, etc to discuss, then by all means use it. Every school doesn't give access to all parts of the application to their readers, so don't assume the person viewing your PS has also seen your ECs. [Yeah, I know, just what you needed was another opinion.
] But for those that do, the two areas need to seem fresh, and not overly repetitive.
Keep it objective and leave out that personal anecdote.
You could make a Short-Term Community Volunteering entry, and group everything that falls under that category, with a grand total of hours in the header (and a date range that covers all of them). Is there a co-volunteer that could attest to some of them? Or an advisor who knows of your efforts? If not, use yourself as the Contact.
Thank you! Separately, if I wanted to include that I was a lead for a community service project and a peer study group leader what's the best way to highlight those leadership examples? Should I include the community service lead under my 'Short-Term Community Volunteering' entry and create a separate entry for the peer study group? Or is it better to group leadership experiences together?
1) I assume it was a short-term leadership opportunity, so based on that, I'd say Yes.
1) I suggest listing the notification of Ambassador-Elect under Awards/Honors/Recognitions (which you can honestly say has already happened) rather than using a Leadership tag, especially as you have made it sound more like a mentoring position, which would be better suited to a Teaching designation.
How many other hours do you have for active clinical experience? Shadowing?
