- Joined
- May 4, 2021
- Messages
- 9
- Reaction score
- 11
- State/Country of Residence: Canadian applicant (U of T)
- Ties to other States/Regions: Not really, but I have family in NY, Massachusetts, and Florida
- URM? (Y/N): I'm a rare mix and there likely isn't anyone with my mix in any class, but I'll lean no here.
- Year in School: Graduated BSc in 2015, MSc in 2018; Working in clinical research ever since graduation
- Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Immunology and Pharmacology
- Graduate Degrees (if applicable): MSc in Clinical Pharmacology
- Cumulative GPA: 3.83
- Science GPA: 3.84
- MCAT Score(s): 129/125/132/129 (CP/CARS/Bio/PS)
- Research Experience: ~100h volunteering for animal study in undergrad; my own project in MSc that involved interviewing psychiatric patients (~2000h); Cell bio work in lab during and after masters (~1800h); Working full time for past 1.5y in mental health research (over 3000h);
- Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. first author, second author, etc.): First author poster/abstract I presented at an international conference; 4 other poster abstracts for international conferences with 2nd or 3rd authorship that I did not present, 1 abstract may be published in a journal
- Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): ~950h hospital volunteering in ER and an ICU/surgery waiting room (received a provincial award for over 5 years of continued service), ER involved observing some real clinical scenarios (e.g. stroke patient going for a CT); My research experience also involved plenty of psychiatric patient interactions, including diagnostic interviewing (MINI, etc.)
- Physician Shadowing: Not really allowed in Canada unless you know a doctor willing to break hospital rules and patient privacy laws, but I have observed what I could while volunteering, especially in the ER
- Non-Clinical Volunteering: Some work in harm reduction that lead to creating a poster about naloxone (~60h), tutoring that I did back in highschool
- Other Extracurricular Activities: Some trivia competition in undergrad that I got second place in; I supervised several undergraduate students during my masters and taught them about my project while letting them contribute; Was in a first-year learning community (FLC)
- Other Employment History: Front-line screening at a hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic (involved seeing many people in a mental health crisis), 500+ hours; worked throughout school (in undergrad and part of masters) at a grocery school to pay tuition (5-6 years part time)
- Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): N
- Specialty of Interest (if applicable): Interest in Emergency medicine and Trauma
- Interest in Primary Care (Y/N): Not sure
- Interest in Rural Health (Y/N): Yes, if it involves emergency medicine
- Medical School List: Central Michigan University, University of Illinois, University of Colorado, UCLA, Sidney Kimmel at Thomas Jefferson, George Washington University, Stanford, Case Western Reserve, Stony Brook, Icahn Mount Sinai
