What should I do during my 2-year gap before medical school?

[jg1951]

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I am a Non-Traditional student, with a degree in Economics. I am taking a 2 year gap year after I finish my pre-med science courses. Will take my MCAT this coming summer.

What should I do during my 2 years of? I want to do something that pays well, but also looks good to medical schools, and gives sometime for me to increase my clinical hours. All suggestions are welcome!

 

[TheDataKing]

I am a Non-Traditional student, with a degree in Economics. I am taking a 2 year gap year after I finish my pre-med science courses. Will take my MCAT this coming summer.

What should I do during my 2 years of? I want to do something that pays well, but also looks good to medical schools, and gives sometime for me to increase my clinical hours. All suggestions are welcome!

Let us know when you find out - that's a unicorn combo

 

[tessellations]

Let us know when you find out - that's a unicorn combo

Truly - I make a whole $16 an hour working as a clinical research coordinator at a top ranked institution. Does getting a LOR count as getting paid, lol?

 

[deleted1001426]

Unfortunately youre looking for something that doesnt exist. You can work in a lab for bad pay and some research experience with a possible publication, EMT for good clinical experience but bad pay, scribe for clinical experience and the same wage you'd make bagging groceries at the local stop and shop or you can make decent money doing something tangentially related to medicine like using your econ background to work in public health etc. As far as getting clinical hours and decent pay, unless you have your RN or paramedics license youre SOL

 

[ThrowawayShmoaway]

I want to do something that pays well, but also looks good to medical schools, and gives sometime for me to increase my clinical hours.

Just want to chime in to say that, technically, a clinical job that pays well does/can exist, but as posters above me have already mentioned, they are exceedingly rare. Before I started med school, I was lucky enough to land a clinical research coordinator position that was 90% direct patient & physician time and contact, and it actually paid well ($45K, which may not be a lot for many of you, but for a single person in a really big city with really low COL, it was amazing for me). The catch was that I actually put in the time (2 years) of working in one of the many clinical/research jobs that pays like **** before I had enough experience to be hired for the one that paid well. Finding a job like that in only 1 or 2 gap years isn't really possible.

 

[StudentDoGter]

You could have two jobs maybe. I work as a scribe for $15/hr/basically minimum wage, but also waitress as my main job. This allows me to get more clinical experience, while also being able to afford living lol.