Primary care includes Internal Med, Family Med, Pediatrics, Psych, and OBGYN. Subspecialties of these fields would not be primary care, though sometimes they do manage primary care patients while they are building up their practice. So if the endocrinologist was seeing folks with allergies, emphysema, diarrhea, injuries, fevers, etc and managing them, there would be a primary care component (which you can make clear in your description).
Most list all Awards/Honors/Recognitions together, listing the most prestigious first.
If you are referring to a different scenario than two similar posters/presentations, perhaps you could give more detail for a better answer.
You don't have to mention school breaks, but you do have to fill out the average hours-per-week blank. So you would take the total hours and divide them by the full number of weeks in the span. This will dilute the true hours per week somewhat, but that's OK.
See my response to Nymphicus above (if the times off aren't too lengthy). If you did not stay involved for the length of a summer, that would be worth mentioning specifically.
It would be better to list the span of dates during the college years and then at the end of the narrative put the HS date span, hours/week, and total hours (which makes the time difference clear). Then finally, put a grand total of hours including HS + college hours.
Yes. Especially since you continued the activity into the college years.
Most list all shadowing in one space under the category of "Other." For answers to further questions about listing activites, see Tips for Entering your "Work and Activities" in AMCAS*: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=813591
These experiences are pretty standard and don't need much explaining. Adcomms will know what you did.
1) It often happens that an experience could legitimately be listed under several categories. It is fine to choose the category that balances your application best. Alternatively you can split out the components with their separate hours and designation and use two spaces. Whatever you do, be sure the shadowing component is made clear (in the activity name or description) as some schools are expecting to see it.
1) Last year, one wasn't obliged to fill in the dates. We'll have to see how this application works. If you must fill it in, choose one shadowing opportunity for the contact info and dates, then put those for others in the narrative. I suggest giving total hours for each and then a grand total at the bottom of the space.
You can do it that way, and it would even be preferred if the posters/presentation/pub were via campus symposia/publications. But if you want to appeal to research-strong institutions, it might not be the best choice if you presented at regional/national conferences and/or published in a "known" journal.
Everyone will have their own opinion on this issue. Personally, I tend to prefer bullet points, but there are some activities that are better described with narrative. I suggest you go with your gut on which works best to express what you want to get across. You need not use the same format with each activity. Regardless: be succinct.
They have asked only for hours per week.
No, the presentation at the national conference is the more prestigious accomplishment. If you present at a school's symposium, it is preferred to mention it at the end of the Research entry rather than giving it its own space under Presentations/Posters.
Americorps is a one-year commitment.
It is meant for leadership that didn't arise from involvement in another activity. Or when the leadership was so substantive that you need more space to adequately describe it (and so didn't mention it elsewhere if associated with another activity). Or when an activity was more leadership than anything else. Or when you want to balance your application by having something for each of many categories.
If you are mainly following someone else's protocol in collecting information and performing tasks, and have little creative or problem-solving involvement, then you'd probably list it under Employment and name the activity "Clinical Research Tech" or "Clinical Research Assistant." If you designed the study or have a lot of control over what happens, then list it under Research, maybe naming it "Paid Clinical Researcher." If your role is somewhere in the middle, then use Research, naming it "Clinical Research Assistant."
I think you should list the total hours in the narrative (in case the adcomm reader has limited math skills), but you are not required to do so.
If you are starting the activity anytime in the month you submit, you may list the activity, as the AMCAS application diesn't ask for a precise starting day.
It makes no difference. If you use Teaching/Tutoring, just be sure it's clear that you were paid.
