PharmCAS work vs extracurricular

[dianaish]

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I have a couple of activities that I do not know where they belong in the PharmCAS application. Help!

1. Unpaid volunteering for research.
2. Teacher's assistant for lab class for a semester. (It counts for credit but I want to talk about it.)

Would these go under extracurricular activities or work experiences? Neither are paid...

Thanks for your help!

 

[GT500]

Jobs in which you receive a salary is considered work. Anything else would be considered an extracurricular activity.

 

[ADN1226]

You can put the unpaid research as EC but the TA counted towards a credit so its neither work or EC. But you can certainly bring that up during the interview. I would assume that you put the TA credit course in the course list right?

 

[athena09]

i found this statement from pharmcas:

"Work Experience​

Enter any paid or volunteer work experience. List experiences in order of importance to you. List each activity only once. Do not repeat any activities listed in the previous section. You may list up to 10 experiences. If still employed, leave the end date blank or estimate a future end date if an end date is anticipated.?

 

[diastole]

i found this statement from pharmcas:

"Work Experience​

Enter any paid or volunteer work experience. List experiences in order of importance to you. List each activity only once. Do not repeat any activities listed in the previous section. You may list up to 10 experiences. If still employed, leave the end date blank or estimate a future end date if an end date is anticipated.?

It's weird that you can list volunteer work as a work experience but I guess that makes some sense. Peace Corps Volunteer would definitely fit here because they pay your living expenses but I wouldn't think that a volunteer in a lab or soup kitchen would qualify.

 

[phuang06]

Well, if you click to "print application," under work experience, it actually says "Research and Work Experience." So I would have to assume that any type of research, regardless of credit or pay, should go under 'work experience.' That's what I did anyway.

 

[dianaish]

Thanks for all the replies.

After reading that statement by PharmCAS, it made me even more confused though. So what if...I volunteered somewhere (let's say a pharmacy) and then they decide to hire me later. Do I put it as both extracurricular for the time I volunteered, and then work experience for the time after? Or..just under work experience because it may be counted as "volunteer work experience".

What is "volunteer work experience" supposed to mean???

 

[thanawalt]

I would like to know too.