plsletmebeadoctorlol
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cGPA: 4.00 sGPA: 4.00, B.S. in Chemistry
MCAT: 522
Paid clinical experience: Currently work as a Study Coordinator in Pulmonary Department at my in-state academic hospital (attached to the medical school I'd do ED for) since August. I've gotten about 600 hours of clinical experience by conducting study visits, so I obtain informed consent, do clinical measurements like height/weight/bp, I do breathing tests, exercise tests, I assist in research bronchoscopies, get detailed medical histories, etc. I'm also training in phlebotomy and will be doing blood draws by July.
Clinical volunteering: I began volunteering at my local hospital in the "No One Dies Alone" program last fall, you sit vigil next to patients who have no visitors in their last 72 hours. However there aren't many vigils, the two I got a shift for the patient died before I showed up, and the program was suspended in March due to COVID. I did do a lot of training for it though, about 15 hours worth. I wasn't going to list on AMCAS but it was on my resume of activities I sent to letter writers so if anyone mentions it I don't want there to be any discrepancies, I figure just be honest.
Nonclinical voluteering: ~60 hours. Since Nov 2018 have volunteered twice a month to cook dinner at a homeless shelter for women in drug detox, I occasionally cook and clean alongside women with kitchen privileges but most the time it's a small group of me + family and some friends.
Research: 600 hours over 2 years, no pubs as study I worked on had no good results but a good LOR from my PI who I worked closely with
Shadowing: ~30 hours--radiologist, OB/GYN, family med, internal med, plastic surgeon
EC/employment:
-Worked 30 hrs/week at a restaurant during school year, 40-50 during summers throughout all four years of undergrad. I was trained on all front-of-house positions, was a "certified" (lol, it was Chili's) trainer so I trained new employees on any FOH position. Got conversant in Spanish here--partially because I met my boyfriend whose native language is Spanish at Chili's, partially because kitchen was all Spanish speaking. My family isn't poor but I did have to support myself in college so I spent most of my free time working.
-Worked as a Legal Assistant in a medical malpractice firm last summer. Definitely gave me some good perspective on malpractice.
-Organic Chemistry II TA for two semesters, apprx 100 hours.
-Was "Social Media Coordinator" for Be the Match (organization promoting bone marrow donation) my freshman year
-Recently organized an ongoing "virtual" bone marrow drive + fundraiser for my chemistry advisor who needed a bone marrow transplant, hoping to recruit 100 donors but it's hard to recruit in a virtual drive.
-Awards: got a 50% merit scholarship freshman year, graduated with a departmental award, also graduated Summa Cum Laude
LOR: PI from research lab, professor of inorganic chemistry who I was top student in his class + worked alongside him to hold bone marrow donor drive for advisor, my manager for my current job as a Study Coordinator (he knows me a lot better than the PI's I work with and is well known at the school, he's done pulmonary research here for the last 30 years)
I am not aiming high. I'd really just like to attend my mid-tier in-state school (University of Utah)--my boyfriend is going to law school here, I loved undergrad here, my sister is in remission from cancer and will hopefully not need any future surgeries/relapse but it's just myself and my mom here to take care of her. For that reason I was debating doing ED but I'm not sure if my EC's are too weak to do that.
MCAT: 522
Paid clinical experience: Currently work as a Study Coordinator in Pulmonary Department at my in-state academic hospital (attached to the medical school I'd do ED for) since August. I've gotten about 600 hours of clinical experience by conducting study visits, so I obtain informed consent, do clinical measurements like height/weight/bp, I do breathing tests, exercise tests, I assist in research bronchoscopies, get detailed medical histories, etc. I'm also training in phlebotomy and will be doing blood draws by July.
Clinical volunteering: I began volunteering at my local hospital in the "No One Dies Alone" program last fall, you sit vigil next to patients who have no visitors in their last 72 hours. However there aren't many vigils, the two I got a shift for the patient died before I showed up, and the program was suspended in March due to COVID. I did do a lot of training for it though, about 15 hours worth. I wasn't going to list on AMCAS but it was on my resume of activities I sent to letter writers so if anyone mentions it I don't want there to be any discrepancies, I figure just be honest.
Nonclinical voluteering: ~60 hours. Since Nov 2018 have volunteered twice a month to cook dinner at a homeless shelter for women in drug detox, I occasionally cook and clean alongside women with kitchen privileges but most the time it's a small group of me + family and some friends.
Research: 600 hours over 2 years, no pubs as study I worked on had no good results but a good LOR from my PI who I worked closely with
Shadowing: ~30 hours--radiologist, OB/GYN, family med, internal med, plastic surgeon
EC/employment:
-Worked 30 hrs/week at a restaurant during school year, 40-50 during summers throughout all four years of undergrad. I was trained on all front-of-house positions, was a "certified" (lol, it was Chili's) trainer so I trained new employees on any FOH position. Got conversant in Spanish here--partially because I met my boyfriend whose native language is Spanish at Chili's, partially because kitchen was all Spanish speaking. My family isn't poor but I did have to support myself in college so I spent most of my free time working.
-Worked as a Legal Assistant in a medical malpractice firm last summer. Definitely gave me some good perspective on malpractice.
-Organic Chemistry II TA for two semesters, apprx 100 hours.
-Was "Social Media Coordinator" for Be the Match (organization promoting bone marrow donation) my freshman year
-Recently organized an ongoing "virtual" bone marrow drive + fundraiser for my chemistry advisor who needed a bone marrow transplant, hoping to recruit 100 donors but it's hard to recruit in a virtual drive.
-Awards: got a 50% merit scholarship freshman year, graduated with a departmental award, also graduated Summa Cum Laude
LOR: PI from research lab, professor of inorganic chemistry who I was top student in his class + worked alongside him to hold bone marrow donor drive for advisor, my manager for my current job as a Study Coordinator (he knows me a lot better than the PI's I work with and is well known at the school, he's done pulmonary research here for the last 30 years)
I am not aiming high. I'd really just like to attend my mid-tier in-state school (University of Utah)--my boyfriend is going to law school here, I loved undergrad here, my sister is in remission from cancer and will hopefully not need any future surgeries/relapse but it's just myself and my mom here to take care of her. For that reason I was debating doing ED but I'm not sure if my EC's are too weak to do that.
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