Should I list all the Basic Sciences and Clerkships I honored?

[medicomel]

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I know that my transcript and MSPE will highlight these grades, but what if some people will only have access to my CAF?

I'm just wondering, and honestly, I need to fill up some space in that section. 🙄

Please advise

 

[gutonc]

I know that my transcript and MSPE will highlight these grades, but what if some people will only have access to my CAF?

I'm just wondering, and honestly, I need to fill up some space in that section. 🙄

Please advise

No. You'll look like a huge tool.

 

[medicomel]

No. You'll look like a huge tool.

thanks for the straight dope. i was definitely leaning towards removing it.

 

[RussianJoo]

I have it listed in my CV... but I guess that's different cause the people that read your CV don't have a copy of your transcript.

 

[Cards21aceking]

I have it listed in my CV... but I guess that's different cause the people that read your CV don't have a copy of your transcript.

Or you could give a copy of the transcript with the CV.

 

[smq123]

No. You'll look like a huge tool.

Hah, that's what our dean of students TOLD us to do. Clinical honors, he said, count as academic honors. <shrug>

 

[NotAProgDirector]

I agree that listing them there makes little difference, and mostly ( to me) looks like CV/CAF padding. I would leave them out, they will be highlighted in your transcript and dean's letter.

 

[medicomel]

I agree that listing them there makes little difference, and mostly ( to me) looks like CV/CAF padding. I would leave them out, they will be highlighted in your transcript and dean's letter.

Thank you for the advice.

 

[dragonfly99]

I think it depends...some might say it's unnecessary or makes you look like you are padding your resume, but if you don't have a lot else to list, or you did better in certain areas it might be relevant. Sometimes the person is in a hurry too, and doesn't read the transcript closely. In my case, I'd honored a cardiology subI/4th year rotation and some other IM type rotations, but didn't have great overall grades. I also think the transcript just listed my subI as IM but didn't say it was the cardiology wards, and I'd wanted that highlighted since my research and career goals also involved cardiology.

 

[WhoisJohnGalt]

My school doesn't have the pass/fail/honors grading system (we just do A/B/C etc), and it has definitely never occurred to me to list my A's as "honors", which is the equivalent, no? Obviously I'm no more of an expert than anyone else, but I don't see how that could possibly help (as anyone who cares to know which rotations you did well on can look at your transcript) and it could certainly hurt (by making you look like a douche). Just my humble opinion of course.

 

[AFDuck]

My school's transcript just says Pass/Fail for each quarter of 3rd year, so it makes sense to me that I should include my honors so they'll see them before the MSPE is released. Agree?

 

[synapse lapse]

Where would you even list those? There is no section for listing coursework, gpa (college or med school), grades, etc.

 

[smq123]

Where would you even list those? There is no section for listing coursework, gpa (college or med school), grades, etc.

There's a section for awards, honors/academic honors, etc.