Kajkid2
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Hey guys,
My cycle isn't going super great. This is my first time applying and I got 2 IIs. One turned into a straight post-II R and the other put me on the WL. I'm wondering if you guys can shed some light on whether or not you think I should apply again in the coming cycle or hold off a year. I'm just going to briefly list out my background and activities to give some context.
cGPA: 3.93
sGPA: 3.90
Major: Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
MA resident, ORM
Activities:
Clinical experience
My cycle isn't going super great. This is my first time applying and I got 2 IIs. One turned into a straight post-II R and the other put me on the WL. I'm wondering if you guys can shed some light on whether or not you think I should apply again in the coming cycle or hold off a year. I'm just going to briefly list out my background and activities to give some context.
cGPA: 3.93
sGPA: 3.90
Major: Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
MA resident, ORM
Activities:
Clinical experience
- Worked as a mental health assistant in a locked psych unit for a summer between semesters for about 370 hours. Had to do patient intake screenings, do wellness checks on patients every 15 mins, record patient notes for incoming staff, do one-on-one suicide watches, etc.
- Started working as an anesthesia tech over a summer between semesters, got back to doing it full time during gap year for a total of about 2000 hours now. we help transport patients to and from the OR with docs, assist with intubation, attach monitoring to patients, perform equipment checks and troubleshoot equipment issues. we also operate emergency devices like rapid transfusion machines during stats.
- I also do some cardiac monitoring work when the cardiac anesthesia techs are short-staffed at our hospital. it's a very similar concept to what I said above but I also have to help with the placement of central venous lines and arterial lines. I estimate that by July I'll have 1000 hours of cardiac tech work.
- Animal care volunteer at local animal shelter. January 2020 - Present. Expect 70 hours through July
- Sort through donated clothes then tag and display them to be sold at reduced prices to needy families. December 2019 - Present. Expect 120 hours through July.
- Volunteered during undergrad at a kitchen that prepared meals for immunocromprised people in the community. January 2019 - May 2019. Only 12 hours
- Recently shadowed a cardiac anesthesiologist for 3 days (24 hours total). I think might look a little odd because I work as an anesthesia tech and met this doctor through work? And obviously it's basically impossible to shadow other specialties like primary care or OB/GYN right now with COVID-19.
- Was an RA in a neuroscience of language lab at my undergrad institution. became leader in our NIH-funded study looking at cognitive control in persons with aphasia. I had to create 10 computer-based tests of working and short term memory (create stimuli, counterbalance, etc.) and divvy up tasks between other RAs in our lab and our partnering lab in Philly. I put 300 hours but it was probably more like 400 (looking back I have no idea why I put 300 either)
- Did an independent study/thesis on treating reading comp in persons with aphasia. made my own diagnostic test and treatment activity, then and had graduate students in our clinic give it to our participants and I tracked their progress. I put 165 hours but probably could've put around 200, smh.
- Did some wet lab research during gap year at the hospital I currently work in as a tech. I operated and then interpreted the results of the TEG machine we were using to look for biomarkers of refractory bleeding in septic patients. I also started doing TEGs for surgical patients beyond the research context once word got out that I could interpret the results for the doctors. This is something I wrote in updates to schools. I estimate I have spent 500 hours on TEG as of right now.
