WAMC/School List for Gap Applicant (2025/2026)

[OfficialAce]

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Overview:
2025-2026 Cycle
Gap Year Applicant (One of Rhodes/Marshall/Gates/Churchill)
Interested in prostheses for communities experiencing homelessness (specifically veterans)

Questions:
How can I improve for the upcoming cycle? Is having engineering intern experiences a concern for adcoms (goal is to combine engineering technologies for prostheses)? Are there any major concerns? I am mostly planning MD, but how would this application fare for MD-PhD?

Stats:
GPA: 3.99 / sGPA: 4.0
MCAT: 523
State: Florida
Race/Ethnicity: White/Male/Citizen
HYPSM for Undergrad/Master's; Oxbridge for Master's

Clinical Experience:
EMT (911/VA): ~400 hours by application / 240 projected.
- Worked during Hurricane Helene with 911 calls and evacuation
- Worked in US and UK

Research:
ENT Research: 3 years across 2 institions (1000 hours / 250 projected)
- School Symposium Poster
- Textbook Chapter First Author
- Potential pub during cycle

Gait/Nerve Stimulation (320 hours)

Gait Mechanics Thesis (360 hours)
- Received Highest Honors
- 2 different conference posters at national conference
- Turn into paper during cycle

Homelessness Research (850 hours / 400 projected)
- Conference Paper at UK conference
- Dissertation (Hoping to get paper during cycle)
- First-author paper during cycle

Shadowing:
Shadowing: 100 hrs
- Pediatrician, ENT, ER

Non-Clinical Volunteering:
Homeless Shelter (1600 hours)
- Director
- Oversee operations for emergency shelter with 26 nightly guests, coordinate with local health organizations for clinics
- Quality improvement research

Engineers Without Borders (800 hours)
- Project Lead, Manage >25k in infrastructure development with local partners

Kesem (540 hours)
- Board Member, counselor
- Annual kid summer camp, >20k budget

Extracurriculars:
Policy Program (600 hours)
- Founder, Director
- Partnered with federal agencies / non-profits to research Biden-Harris homelessness initiatives

TA/Peer Mentor (800 hours)
- Various engineering and bio courses

Global Health Conference (320 hours)
- President
- >250 HS students, annual conference, >20k budget

Consulting Club (600 hours)
- Team Lead
- Worked with various fortune 100 pharma companies, $120k earned, vaccine access in Africa & pharma supply chain

Semiconductor Engineering Firm (480 hours, 480 projected)
- Silicon Engineering Intern

 

[Faha]

You are a strong candidate for MD and MD-PhD. I suggest these schools with your stats:
U Florida
Miami
USF Morsani
Emory
Duke
U Virginia
Georgetown
Johns Hopkins (free tuition)
U Penn
Pittsburgh
Case Western
Cincinnati
Hofstra
Einstein (free tuition)
Mount Sinai
NYU (free tuition)
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Brown
Harvard
Boston University
U Michigan
Northwestern
UChicago
Carle Illinois (you fit their profile)
Washington University (in St. Louis-almost a guaranteed interview with your stats)
Vanderbilt
Mayo
UCSF
UCLA

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Did you finish your OxCam term?

What is your purpose as a physician? How do you see yourself leveraging your engineering background?

Once you have your answers, make the schools recruit you. You shouldn't need to apply to more than 30 schools, so be picky. Go to our Research Scientists forum for insights about MD-PhD from that group.

How to Engineer a Health Professional Career | SDN

NOTE: In this article, “engineering” can refer to quantitative analytical subjects like physics, mathematics, computer science, or finance/economics, but

www.studentdoctor.net

 

[OfficialAce]

Not currently doing OxCam (looks interesting though). Currently at Oxbridge. Will finish master's this year and begin a third master's next year (during cycle). US undergrad/master's is engineering. UK master's are sociology and public policy.

My goal as a physician is to expand accessibility to neuroprosthesis surgery and work with stakeholders to improve relevant technologies. Interested in vestibular systems and cochlear implants. I would want to be involved in translational research as a clinical consultant with a lab or industry partner. Given the surgery focus, I feel like MD/PhD and running a lab would be difficult.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

My goal as a physician is to expand accessibility to neuroprosthesis surgery and work with stakeholders to improve relevant technologies. Interested in vestibular systems and cochlear implants. I would want to be involved in translational research as a clinical consultant with a lab or industry partner. Given the surgery focus, I feel like MD/PhD and running a lab would be difficult.

Fascinating. Looking up a job description...

Careers - Cleveland FES Center

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