Progress Check

[el799]

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Looking for some feedback on how im doing so far in the process as a second year with any advice on where I should be looking to build. These numbers are currently for a sophomore so be mindful of the hours
Research
~550 hours across my school lab and a summer clinical lab
1 publication with 3 projected publications by may of 2019(expecting 1-2 pubs per year afterward too)
Clinical experience/shadowing
~200 shadowing hours in anesthesia and neurosurgery
~100 hours clinical volunteering(not the strongest type though...patients I worked with were anesthetized)
Other EC's
Editor for my schools science journal
Tutor 2 hours/week in general chemistry
GPA: ~3.65 obviously looking to go upward. Made a few stupid mistakes last semester and got a a C+/B- in an upper level chem course

Open to any suggestions.. I think I lack most in clinical experience side of things, I am looking to do volunteer phlebotomy for my uni's hospital soon.

side question, should I include philanthropic donations I have made to research foundation that I am especially interested in helping (alzheimers) or will this come off as a money brag (dont mean it this way, I am just very pro Alzheimer's research, it is a terrible disease) since the donation was pretty exceptional coming from an undergraduate student

 

[Goro]

Doing great so far.

side question, should I include philanthropic donations I have made to research foundation that I am especially interested in helping (alzheimers)

Don't even think about mentioning this. If you wish to impress Adcoms, actually work with Alzheimers patients.

 

[el799]

Doing great so far.

side question, should I include philanthropic donations I have made to research foundation that I am especially interested in helping (alzheimers)

Don't even think about mentioning this. If you wish to impress Adcoms, actually work with Alzheimers patients.

That's what I thought. Thanks goro

 

[el799]

I would emphasis so far. You have all this research and your shadowing is already excessive and only with unconscious patients. This is way out of balance of your clinical volunteering and it makes you look like a research geek. Despite the perception, research is the least important of the three, shadowing should show you have observed doctor-patient interaction and you have should show clinical volunteering as much more that the check box that it seems to be.

I'm going for academic medicine/ potentially MD/PHD which is why I do so much research. should I shadow a primary care for 10-20 hours so I have wok with conscious patients or is the conscious preop interaction sufficient. Planning on more clinical volunteering through phlebotomy as mentioned so is there anything else past this. All of the shadwin I have was not on purpose. I did a summer in a hospital where I was there full time and it ended up being that I spent about 1/4 of my time doing research, 1/2 of my time waiting for next step of research so I spent it in the OR's, and the other 1/4 was actual work in the OR hence the clinical work.

 

[Goro]

I'm going for academic medicine/ potentially MD/PHD which is why I do so much research. should I shadow a primary care for 10-20 hours so I have wok with conscious patients or is the conscious preop interaction sufficient. Planning on more clinical volunteering through phlebotomy as mentioned so is there anything else past this. All of the shadwin I have was not on purpose. I did a summer in a hospital where I was there full time and it ended up being that I spent about 1/4 of my time doing research, 1/2 of my time waiting for next step of research so I spent it in the OR's, and the other 1/4 was actual work in the OR hence the clinical work.

You still need to show that you want to be around patients (conscious ones), and show off your altruism. Medicine is a service profession, after all.