That is a fairly light number of hours for an MM activity. It's less likely to bode negatively if you give the grand total of formal shadowing plus informal MD educational sessions/interaction in the header, but mention the subtotals for each in the narrative as you explain, thus maintaining transparency.
I think that's best.
Use two spaces.
It's OK to use sometimes, like titles and lists. Perhaps not in formal narrative style. Feel free to give an example.
1) What a terrific way to serve your community! I'm inclined to say it would not be considered "clinical" as those you are surveilling are not patients (and you aren't working in a clinical environment, though that isn't an absolute disqualifier). Do you need more active clinical experience? If so, there is the possibility that adcomms might be more liberal in their expectations during this time when the usual clinical opportunities are not open to pre-meds, depending on how you spin it, but I can't guarantee that. Regardless: Kudos to you. I suggest labeling it as Non-Clinical and letting adcomms make up their own minds about whether it edges on being clinical, or not.
1) What therapy did you provide and for what diagnoses? What training did you have for that role?
Since you won't know (and every school does things their own way), you'll have to decide how to balance the Activity section to best represent yourself.
You are not giving me enough information to answer your question. For example, if it is a psychologist making the diagnosis of a dysfunctional relationship, with you providing couple's therapy, it would not be "Clinical." If a psychiatrist makes a diagnosis of autism, and you provide behavioral therapy with physician or psychologist oversight, then it would be. The fact that you use the word "client" instead of "patient" makes me think the former might be more likely.
As the award is a form of impact, it's fine to discuss it in the MM essay.
This activity would be considered Non-Clinical, as your donors are healthy people, not patients.
You can include it as an Activity, even though it was a curricular requirement.
You can use yourself unless it was part of a formal program, in which case use the coordinator of the shadowing schedule or someone else related to the program.
I suggest highlighting the Prison Education Program in its own space, as experiences that take one out of one's comfort zone reflect very positively. The others can be combined in one space, if you wish.
In the middle school tutoring program, I helped middle schoolers who were at risk of failing their classes and were forced to participate in the program. I actually found it more challenging than tutoring in the prison. Do you think that I should write separately about my middle school tutoring experience?
If you have a lot to say, it's fine to use separate spaces.
Thank you for the help!
Family Liaison is a great title. I'd suggest tagging it as "Other." Using it for MM is fine, as is using a parent as Contact.
1) Conferences Attended would ideally be used only if one was an invitee/speaker at a very prestigious conference or was an organizer. The vast majority use only Posters/Presentations, and of course include the conference name there.
It would be appropriate to designate which hours belong to the HS years vs the college years. You can do this with the Repeated feature. All the dates and hours will appear at the top of the activity box.
For a Faculty Intermediary or Assistant experience, where you did not do any teaching, "Other" or "Extracurricular" seem like suitable tags. I think that "Leadership" isn't quite right.
Thank you very much for all your help! I hope you have a good rest of your weekend and Mother's Day tomorrow if you're celebrating!
You're welcome. And I will!
Yes, just give one block of time. When you calculate your Total Hours, allow for summer, Thanksgiving, Winter, and Spring Break time off.
1) Why not list your shadowing under Shadowing?
I would list them under Posters/Presentations, label the space something like, Abstracts Accepted for Conferences Later Canceled, and formally cite both posters in the space. Explain in the space that though the posters could not be presented due to COVID-canceled conference, the content is available online and include the database where it can be found by Searching your name. Don't give a direct link.
Group all the Dean's List awards in one entry. Include the criteria for Deans' List at your most recent school. Comment on the personal impact of this accomplishment in the narrative, in order to highlight the fact that you have a recent, steep upward grade trend.
This is a Clinical Experience, whether paid or volunteer. Or you can list it under the Research tab if you've got active clinical experience covered through another activity.
Any significant activity after HS graduation is fine to enter, though for a non-trad, activities from ten years ago probably ought not to take up a lot of spaces. More recent activities should be highlighted.
Sounds like a great experience. I'd call it Non-Clinical. You are volunteering with donors, not patients.
It depends on the activity and how sure you'll stay involved until med school matriculation, keeping in mind that you want your hours and dates to match whatever your Contact will attest to. If you are fairly sure of continued involvement, then list both completed and future dates and hours (using the Repeated feature) with the current month for start date and an August end date for the second datespan, with a good faith estimate of the total hours. If you are not as sure, then instead add at the end of the narrative that you hope to continue for xx hrs/wk until 8/2021. If you have no idea how long you might continue, then just enter the completed hours. What ever you choose to do, be sure to make the Completed hours clear.
1) Who conferred the Volunteer of the Year Award? This one entry is going to be far more beneficial to your application, so I suggest you list it first and find a person from the sponsoring organization to list as Contact.
