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FWIW I did just fine this cycle with next to no clinical volunteering and lots of non-clinical volunteering. I did have paid clinical experience
Thanks for your insights, I really appreciate it. I've spent countless hours interacting with patients and talking to them ever since I was young. I have had a lot of time with patients, but none of it was formally arranged. I will be around patients every day for hours on end in my gap year volunteering (paid for by a public service fellowship), how can I let medical schools be aware of that? My gap year job is combining my two passions of service to those experiencing homelessness and health by working in the clinic at the shelter. I am currently trying to arrange for about 60-80 hours of volunteering by mid-June at a hospital near my school, if that helps.
Not at all! You should be golden, particularly at schools that have a strong emphasis on service to urban underserved (homeless).It starts the first week of July! Will I be at much of a disadvantage if I submit like July 10th?
Delete U MN and Temple, add all Manhattan Titans, Hofstra, Duke, UCLA, UCSF, Miami, U VM, U MI, keck.Hey, I'm new here and will be applying for matriculation to the 2020 class.
NIH Summer Internship Program Research, resulted in a poster presented at the end of the summer to NIH. Did work in organic chemistry research. Getting a ROL. No paper. ~400 hours
- Year in school: Senior at HYPSM
- Country/state of residence: VA
- Cumulative GPA: 3.85
- Science GPA: 3.83
- MCAT Scores: 520 (130/131/130/129)
- Research – include any abstracts/posters/publications and how you were credited (eg. First author, senior author, etc):
Organic Chemistry Research at my university: May be getting a second author, but not in time for my applications. Did about 800 hours of work in this lab throughout a summer and a school year. Getting a ROL.
None explicitly.
- Volunteering (clinical) – include hours/sites
100 hours over a lot of specialities, but I did the most in a homeless shelter seeing an addiction specialist treat people recovering from addiction within the shelter aka I did most with a primary care doc.
- Physician shadowing – include hours/specialties
Coaching low income youth in basketball/football ~40 hours
- Non-clinical volunteering
A director for a homeless shelter, was on the policy board and served in an extensive leadership position raising money, buying supplies and leading a weekly shift. My campus's premed advisors says med school will count this as clinical experience due to the extensive interactions with people experiencing homelessness and providing them with comfort and care. ~2000 hours over four years. This was a longitudinal commitment where I rose up the ranks of the organization to become one of a few directors and this experience influenced my decision to become a doctor.
Wrote a publication for a sports analysis collective at my school. Member of a drug and alcohol peer advising club. These were lower down on my priority list from the shelter and research.
- Extracurricular activities
Head swim team coach of my local swim team the summer after my freshman year, otherwise no employment experience in college
- Employment history
School List:
- Immediate family members in medicine? (y/n) YES
- Specialty of interest: Pediatrics, Addiction Medicine, Community Health --> working with individuals experiencing homelessness specifically
- Interest in rural health: MAYBE
- Gap Year Activity: Serving as a liaison/case manager for a family clinic within a large multiservices center/homeless shelter where I'll be able to do work outreaching to the homeless community and upgrading the immunization tracking/procedures of the clinic
Penn
UCSF
Harvard
Cornell
Columbia
WUSTL
JHU
UVA (in state)
Mayo
U of Minnesota
Case Western
Virginia Tech
Pitt
Yale
Vanderbilt
U Chicago
Northwestern
Stanford
Baylor
Boston University
Jefferson
Temple
Einstein