Thanks for your input!
1) Yes, but also briefly include the context of the observation (like, through my job as . . . ). If apropo, be sure to mention primary care docs, as many programs want to see that you’ve observed longitudinal care.
List only the hours that you have done things, like attend meetings (zoom or live), act to organize initiatives, etc.
You might list it as “Other” and title it International Service, Hospital & Community, then break down the sub components in the description, apportioning more description to the outreach programs. This would be the most accurate.
How many completed hours of active clinical experience do you already have to list?
Since the clinical volunteering was awhile back, it might be best to highlight the newly-begun endeavor by giving it its own space. Since you have scarcely begun, and who can know if events will interfere with adding a year's worth of volunteer hours, rather than including all the projected hours for the next year in the header, I suggest listing only the completed hours, and then in the narrative stating that you plan to continue through [date] 4 hours per week (or whatever).
If you were a named author, then abstracts that were accepted and presented, either via podium or poster, are worth listing (giving credit to the presenter). Add them to your posters space, unless the data was part of the accepted publication, in which case it would go in the Publications space. See post #2, item 20 of this thread for guidelines on doing that.
Clinical research coordinator? I talk about interacting with research participants, but I don't refer to them as "patients" - can I? I know some adcoms on here feel that human subjects research is not clinical experience and that human subjects are not patients but others are fine with it.
Are the human subjects you interact with current patients in a clinical facility at the time that you engage with them? Do they have an existing diagnosis? If I had a fuller understanding of this and your role, I could give you my opinion.
In summary:
Yes, thank you so much!!
It depends on the role taken on. Much of what a spiritual leader does is teaching and serving others. But, for example, if they also come up with new initiatives, form committees to implement them while providing oversight, take responsibility for getting results, train others to take on related roles, then I would consider that to be leadership.
gotcha, thank you!
Were the service events for the general community or for your campus community? What did the service events consist of and who did they help?
It really varied- for the community, some of them were planting trees, making dog toys for animal shelters, working at food kitchens, packing medical supplies, and some of them were for campus- helping out at campus blood drives, organizing science demos for middle schoolers through our university, etc.
As the leadership (organizing, delegating, having overall responsibility) also benefited the off-campus community, you could list the entire activity under Volunteer that includes participating in the events. OTOH, if you want a dedicated Leadership space, you'd list only the dates and hours of leadership and then use another space for the dates and hours of miscellaneous hands-on community service.
Thank you!
You don’t need to provide a reference from someone who knew you, just a Contact who can verify the timeframe of your employment. So use the payroll office or Human Resources. Or a coworker. Or as a last resort, yourself.
How many other clinical experience hours do you have, and when? How long ago was the 4-month position?
One activity space. The College Registrar can be used as a Contact and can attest to all of them.
1) Add other Contacts to the narrative space, grouped with that school's recognitions.
1) You might summarize some of the recognitions to take up less space without giving specific scholarship names or the exact terms of deans list. And since Deans List is inferable from your grades anyway, that would be safely omitted if necessary.
It seems to me that the majority of this position consisted of doing the work yourself, rather than delegating to peers whom you took responsibility for. I suggest listing it as Employment-Not Medical/Clinical, highlighting your technical prowess, but also mentioning the hiring of others for tasks outside your ability. Adcomms can make up their own minds about whether that is the type of leadership in which they are interested.
So I'm an Asian-American convert to Reform Judaism* with Conservative Jewish influences but treat halachic issues seriously and talk about tutoring Charedi (fervently-Orthodox) Jews in NYC in organic chemistry as I discuss the diversity of my own students in an MM statement. However my own religious identity is not obvious especially since my legal name reads Asian, but these experiences are extremely important to me (in part because I regularly interact with Orthodox Jews in other parts of my personal life). Do you have any idea how to proceed? This is especially since I plan to apply to schools affiliated with Touro and YU (Einstein).
1) Just say what you want us to know about your own religious identity. No need to be subtle. @Goro any thoughts on this?
But character limit! I have nowhere else to really describe my religious identity on my primary application. I just want to make sure adcoms don't mistake me as an outsider to the Jewish community especially given my Asian legal name. Off the record, I have to say that I went to shul a lot more often / regularly after too many life and death calls as an EMT.
I had to go google all these terms!
1) Are you using a MM space? You will have to be more succinct, perhaps giving the gist without the terminology.
1a) Invited Speaker on Women's Empowerment & Education?
Does it look weird if I don't explain I am not an outsider to halacha? (I feel if I had a different, not-obviously-Asian legal name I would not have to explain...)
Practice explaining it without insider terms to your non-Jewish friends. Make it simple. If you have too much not-generally-recognized terminology, screeners will stop reading and skim, just as if you were explaining some sort of jargon-ridden research topic. The hallmark of a good teacher is that they can explain complex topics in an understandable manner, so that the information is retained.
