Single-day events on ERAS CV?

[rlwebb]

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Hey,

I have like 4 single-day events, they are various volunteer events, I put them on Eras as 1 activity with heading "Single day events" and put more details under the description. Do you think this is padding?

 

[notdeadyet]

I have like 4 single-day events, they are various volunteer events, I put them on Eras as 1 activity with heading "Single day events" and put more details under the description. Do you think this is padding?

If the alternative is a whole lot of nothing in the Experiences section, I'd run with it. If you already have a fair amount of volunteer stuff there, I wouldn't bother. If you've already submitted, I wouldn't sweat it either way.

 

[Entgegen]

Our school required us to have a certain number of medical volunteer hours every semester (I think ~20 hours each). While a pain in the butt at the time, they comforted us in telling us that we'll have plenty of volunteer experiences to put on our CV/ERAS...so needless to say, I'm in a similar situation but have already submitted.

What I did was list each experience individually (they were all 4-5 hour long shifts at various community health fairs, free clinics, etc.) and in the description of each I wrote a single-sentence explanation, i.e. "Single 4-hour shift at the Whatever County Hispanic Wellness Fair providing free health screenings and health education to the community."

 

[Doctor4Life1769]

I did it with several things. We're in med school, not HS or college anymore, they should understand that we do what we can and at least it shows effort. I dont care if they consider it "CV padding" or not

 

[Seville07]

I wanted to bring this post back to see if anybody else has experience or advice with this issue, e.g. how (if at all) should one list a one-shot experience such as leading a review session or volunteering at a health fair.

 

[the alchemist]

I wanted to bring this post back to see if anybody else has experience or advice with this issue, e.g. how (if at all) should one list a one-shot experience such as leading a review session or volunteering at a health fair.

i think it depends on if u need things to fill in ur cv. i didn't include any 1 day events but my cv already had too much and many of those 1 day events i organized (as the health fair co-chair, etc) so they were already covered. i just included the positions/experiences that were most impt to me and where i worked on sth i was passionate about for an extended period of time (months to a year even if it only culminated in one final event at the end; i think i had one thing that was 1 week but i was group leader for a national community service project where over 100 students came to nyc during xmas break to volunteer).

did u lead multiple sessions in some position, like ta for the course or as part of ur school's tutoring program? if u did, u could list the position and then describe what u did if u want (i didn't for most b/c i'd have too many to write descriptions for then - they'll c the bullet descriptions on my cv anyways which i'll bring hard copies to my interviews, just didn't feel like copying/pasting and then having to reformat). did u do other things w/ the org that u volunteered for a health fair with? u could list the org and urself as a volunteer and then describe the diff things u did w/ that org like the health fair, etc....