WAMC + School List Help, 517/3.99 ORM CA res

[TotRelegation]

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Hi! I will be applying in May and was looking for advice about my school list.
CA, ORM, T-20 undergrad no gap year
517 MCAT (129, 126, 130, 132), 3.99 GPA

600 hours clinical volunteering (scribing neuro cases in the ED, also holds leadership role within this program)
300 hours clinical volunteering at bedside
100 hours shadowing (transplant medicine, neuro, ortho, peds, IM, OBGYN)
1000 hours wet lab (two papers under review and two posters)
300 hours clinical research (four pubs including two at journals with IF =10, three under review)
150 hours clinical employment (cranial stimulation and worked on-call for this job)
300 hours volunteer tutoring (besides tutoring holds leadership in communicating with prof to schedule tutoring sessions, book rooms, and proctor exams)
200 hours non-clinical employment tutoring
200 hours non-clinical employment academic counselor for university
150 hours non-clinical volunteering as registration desk at vaccine clinic (checking patients in, helping with insurance, outreach. The clinic primarily provides for underserved individuals)
100 hours non-clinical volunteering at food bank for veterans
100 hours non-clinical volunteering for unhoused individuals to help them register for benefits such as food stamps or medical insurance
6 LORs: Two science profs, one non-science prof, wet lab PI, two MD/PHDs

Current school list:
Duke
Stanford
Northwestern
Columbia
UCSF
UCSD
UCI
Tufts
Emory
Pitt
Albert Einstein
Cincinnati
UMiami
Hackensack
UCLA
Keck
Brown
Jefferson
Case Western
Rochester
BU
Cornell
Dartmouth
VTECH
Wake Forest
Temple
VCU
Kaiser
Ohio State
Vermont
Colorado
CSOM
Penn State
UMass Chan
Western Michigan
Oakland Beaumont

Thank you for reading. Any schools I should add or remove? Any thoughts and advice about my application is greatly appreciated!

 

[Faha]

You have a good list and should receive several interviews. VTech has a small class with a regional preference.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Welcome to the forums.

I count:

Clinical exposure 1150 hours
Other healthcare patient-facing experience 150 hours registration desk
Need details on clinical research

Teaching/tutoring 700

Service orientation 200 hours
Suggest adding 50 hours min before submission with food bank or veterans support

Mission fit is going to determine your success. How does all of this experience clarify your purpose as a physician? You should make sure schools tell you how they can help you get closer to fulfilling your purpose; make them recruit you or make suggestions on why you would thrive at their program. That's the only thing I see missing.

 

[TotRelegation]

Welcome to the forums.

I count:

Clinical exposure 1150 hours
Other healthcare patient-facing experience 150 hours registration desk
Need details on clinical research

Teaching/tutoring 700

Service orientation 200 hours
Suggest adding 50 hours min before submission with food bank or veterans support

Mission fit is going to determine your success. How does all of this experience clarify your purpose as a physician? You should make sure schools tell you how they can help you get closer to fulfilling your purpose; make them recruit you or make suggestions on why you would thrive at their program. That's the only thing I see missing.

The clinical research included consenting patients for the study, conducting post-op interviews and follow-ups, and then creating data sheets that can be used for publication.

I do have a question about mission fit. I feel that my application is focused on research and mentorship/teaching, as that is something that I am passionate about and would like to pursue in my career as a physician. I believe that most of the mission statements for the schools also include research, as my list does not have many service schools. Would Mission Fit be leveraging their opportunities for research and mentorship and connecting it to my application? Sorry if this is a silly question.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

I do have a question about mission fit. I feel that my application is focused on research and mentorship/teaching, as that is something that I am passionate about and would like to pursue in my career as a physician. I believe that most of the mission statements for the schools also include research, as my list does not have many service schools. Would Mission Fit be leveraging their opportunities for research and mentorship and connecting it to my application? Sorry if this is a silly question.

That's what we expect of everyone in the academic world who are faculty, regardless of department or field. You could be happy as a teacher. You don't need the MD to teach, though being in medical education you need to know why you must have the MD, DO, DDS, PharmD, etc. What miost premeds do with teaching and tutoring is insufficient. And every doctor is not a good teacher.

 

[TotRelegation]

That's what we expect of everyone in the academic world who are faculty, regardless of department or field. You could be happy as a teacher. You don't need the MD to teach, though being in medical education you need to know why you must have the MD, DO, DDS, PharmD, etc. What miost premeds do with teaching and tutoring is insufficient. And every doctor is not a good teacher.

I definitely understand your perspective. To clarify, in my personal statement, I connected research with being able to expand and tailor to the needs of each individual patient (for example, I do research on providing thrombectomies for stroke patients with disabilities, a population that is typically excluded from intervention during strokes). For an MD doing research, my vision of why this pairing is important is that you play an active role in helping the patient recover while also being able to provide an expanded treatment plan by pushing the boundaries of medicine through research.

For teaching, I feel that this quality is important to be able to guide and educate patients through a diagnosis or illness. Just as a tutor might be more well-versed in an academic subject, physicians have a plethora of medical knowledge. In my eyes, it is important for a doctor to leverage their knowledge to relate to patients and provide a comprehensive, yet understandable explanation to aid with their healing, similar to how tutors guide their students.

Thank you very much for your opinion and perspective, as it is something I agree with and perhaps did not think about enough.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

I definitely understand your perspective. To clarify, in my personal statement, I connected research with being able to expand and tailor to the needs of each individual patient (for example, I do research on providing thrombectomies for stroke patients with disabilities, a population that is typically excluded from intervention during strokes). For an MD doing research, my vision of why this pairing is important is that you play an active role in helping the patient recover while also being able to provide an expanded treatment plan by pushing the boundaries of medicine through research.

For teaching, I feel that this quality is important to be able to guide and educate patients through a diagnosis or illness. Just as a tutor might be more well-versed in an academic subject, physicians have a plethora of medical knowledge. In my eyes, it is important for a doctor to leverage their knowledge to relate to patients and provide a comprehensive, yet understandable explanation to aid with their healing, similar to how tutors guide their students.

Thank you very much for your opinion and perspective, as it is something I agree with and perhaps did not think about enough.

What feedback have you gotten about your profile? How do you intend to answer questions about how you envision yourself as a physician in the secondary essays you will be writing?