Research as "most meaningful" work/activites?

[Neurrito]

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On the "work/activities" section of the amcas is it recommended to indicate your research experience(s) as most meaningful for an MD/PhD applicant? I feel like the two labs I was in were the most meaningful experiences to me, which makes sense since I want to do an MD/PhD. But I feel like it'd be a waste to choose those as my most meaningful on the amcas since I'll have two other essays to talk all about my lab experiences. What do you guys think?

Also sorry if this has been asked before in some capacity. I couldn't find anything about this specifically.

 

[Beargryllz]

It could be that those other essays are about what you did, not about how meaningful they were in the greater context of your life

I wouldn't know though, I never applied MD/PhD

 

[Neurrito]

One of the MD/PhD essays is to describe your motivation for doing MD/PhD, so I was planning to talk about the "meaningfullness" of my research experiences there though.

 

[Reckoner]

A program director at one of my interviews said that he thinks it looks suspicious if an applicant does not mark a research experience as most significant. That was the only time I ever heard that opinion, though, so I doubt it's widely held.

Personally I marked a research experience as most significant and focused on describing some of the valuable skills it taught me. No one ever brought it up in a positive or negative way, so who knows if it even matters.