•••quote:•••Originally posted by baylor21:
•The above posts have good advice, but my perceptive is that health care experience is not really a boost to your resume, it is expected of you and is basically a requirement, even though most med schools wont put that in so many words.
Of course, there are some who get in with no medical experience, but they are few and VERY FAR between. In that sense, working in health care won't really boost your resume, it is simply a required duty of being a premed (since your resume wont stand out from the majority of others who also do health care work).
That being said, the ONLY way to know what being a doctor entails is to work in a clinical setting. Anyone who doesnt absolutely love this experience (and moves on to another field) is a thousand times more respectable and honest in my opinion, than a premed who doesnt truly enjoy treating sick people who somehow slips through the cracks of med school admissions and becomes a doctor.
Remember, many are called but few are chosen.
One more thing, get involved in activities that are vastly different than what normal premeds do.
•••••so does this mean if you're a combat medic(pararescueman-only 300 of these men in the u.s. military), that will give a GREAT boost to your application? i want to know how much of a boost this is as opposed to other EC"s (being varsity swimmer, nih research, or a minority)?