Submitting AMCAS before getting a job

[aymar]

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Hi everyone,

I am planning on scribing over the next year and have interviewed at several companies but am STILL waiting to hear back about an offer. I never imagined I wouldn't have a position by June 7th, and always intended to list what I would be doing over the next year on AMCAS.

I'm pretty new to this so I don't understand whether or not this presents a disadvantage. Will it be sufficient to update schools on what I am doing during my gap year in secondaries? Or should I hold out on submitting AMCAS until I have a position?

 

[aymar]

Submit on time, note on secondary. If this scribe position is going to be major clinical experience and you have little else, you may actually have to reevaluate if you have enough apply

I have about 100 hours of clinical volunteering, so not a ton unfortunately. I will continue to accumulate hours in that position over the next year however.

 

[fortysevenphysicians]

I've also had this thought—I'm still trying to figure out my exact employment for the next year so I can write the personal statement to end all personal statements. I feel like if I submit now, my PS will just be an alteration of last year...how bad would it really be to wait until July to submit?

 

[freak7]

The issue is projected hours do not carry alot of weight. They only work if you have some proven evidence in the job. While you can add it now as future work, I am not sure how much impact it will have.

So if I have FTE for 6 months so far in a clinical setting and it's not expected to go away anytime soon, I should note future hours?

 

[aymar]

The issue is projected hours do not carry alot of weight. They only work if you have some proven evidence in the job. While you can add it now as future work, I am not sure how much impact it will have.

Oops, maybe I misspoke. I meant that I will continue to accumulate hours in the clinical position I have been in for the last year. Do I project the hours that I will get over the next year when I enter that in? Thanks for all of the advice!