Secondary Question

[MCATISEZ]

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I am a little confused at to what to do. I am prewriting some secondaries and one for UMiami asks "Describe your most meaningful clinical experience (do not repeat your AMCAS personal statement)". This is a little tough for me to do since I listed my most meaningful clinical experience in my AMCAS primary and described it in the description. Do I chose another experience as my most meaningful for the secondary? I can expand on what I already wrote at best, but it really hard to take a completely different stances than when I described it on my primary.

 

[DBC03]

I am a little confused at to what to do. I am prewriting some secondaries and one for UMiami asks "Describe your most meaningful clinical experience (do not repeat your AMCAS personal statement)". This is a little tough for me to do since I listed my most meaningful clinical experience in my AMCAS primary and described it in the description. Do I chose another experience as my most meaningful for the secondary? I can expand on what I already wrote at best, but it really hard to take a completely different stances than when I described it on my primary.

Oh my goodness, I'm glad I'm not the only one who was thinking this. My two major clinical experiences were my most meaningful and how am I supposed to elaborate on those with LESS space?

 

[Goro]

I am a little confused at to what to do. I am prewriting some secondaries and one for UMiami asks "Describe your most meaningful clinical experience (do not repeat your AMCAS personal statement)". This is a little tough for me to do since I listed my most meaningful clinical experience in my AMCAS primary and described it in the description. Do I chose another experience as my most meaningful for the secondary? I can expand on what I already wrote at best, but it really hard to take a completely different stances than when I described it on my primary.

You could flesh out your experience and reactions to it; what you got out of it.

 

[MCATISEZ]

Oh my goodness, I'm glad I'm not the only one who was thinking this. My two major clinical experiences were my most meaningful and how am I supposed to elaborate on those with LESS space?

It is not the lack of space that concerns me. I can be concise. As a matter of fact it allows for 500 words... that is plenty. My concern is how am I supposed to write on something that I have already written on and not be repetitive.

 

[MCATISEZ]

You could flesh out your experience and reactions to it; what you got out of it.

Thanks Goro! Unfortunately, that is the stance I took to begin with. This experience allowed me to see particular aspects of medicine that are important to me, and laid the path out as to how I want to make my most significant impact.

 

[gizmoo]

You can write about the same thing, just try to elaborate on a different aspect of it. Go more into detail, maybe talk about how it influenced your interest in a specific area of medicine, talk about one specific meaningful interaction with a patient, talk about a mentor, etc.


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[Goro]

Thanks Goro! Unfortunately, that is the stance I took to begin with. This experience allowed me to see particular aspects of medicine that are important to me, and laid the path out as to how I want to make my most significant impact.

You can always flesh it out. You only have so much room in the Primary.

 

[DBC03]

Or, if I was interpreting the question tell me about most meaningful clinical experience you have had other than the one discussed in the Primary.

I considered this, but included both of my clinical experiences as most meaningful... I do have quite a few more aspects I can discuss, so I'll have to go with that aspect.

 

[MCATISEZ]

Or, if I was interpreting the question tell me about most meaningful clinical experience you have had other than the one discussed in the Primary.

I might go with this. After selecting my experience as most meaningful, and mentioning other aspects in my AMCAS personal statement, writing anything new without being redundant would be very difficult.