What to add to my Med school resume?

[Jmukhalian]

I currently have 32 credit hours, only 19 of which are transferable to the University I am interested in attending, I am taking A&P + Lab for 5 credit hours and will be taking 14 credit hours in the fall and 15 in the spring all of which are at a community college, I have worked full time for the last 2 years at a hospital and will continue to work full time until I get (hopefully) accepted into med school, I have my EMT-B but have never had the opportunity to work as an EMT I have been working as a Cardiac Monitor Tech in the Cardiac ICU, I also have observed over 30 surgeries ranging from simple general surgery to open heart to neurosurgery, I have completed over 150 hours of shadowing physicians but none of it is on paper. So basically my question is what are the most important things I can add to my resume to help me stand out.

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[235788]

I think you are on the right track, I'd start getting involved with leadership organizations (perhaps tutoring, mentoring, etc) as well as non-medical and medical volunteering. non-medical is nice, but obviously medical volunteering (emergency room or other department) will hold more weight on the app. I'm sure someone will say otherwise, but medical volunteering is almost a med school pre-req.

 

[Jmukhalian]

I don't understand the volunteering part though I mean I can understand if the person cannot get any experience working in a hospital but if I have worked in a hospital for 4+ years I think that should weigh more than a little volunteering during the summer.

 

[NewYorker9]

try doing research once you get to your four year school or do a summer research program to see how you like it

 

[TheMightySmiter]

I don't understand the volunteering part though I mean I can understand if the person cannot get any experience working in a hospital but if I have worked in a hospital for 4+ years I think that should weigh more than a little volunteering during the summer.

If you have clinical experience in your job, then no, non-medical volunteering will carry no less weight than medical volunteering. But as a monitor tech, do you actually have patient contact? I work on a cardiac floor as a patient care tech, and our telemetry techs sit in a windowless room and stare at computer screens. It's a great job for becoming a BAMF at EKG interpretation, but med schools prefer you to have patient interaction in some capacity. Can you use your EMT-B cert on a part-time basis or as a volunteer? Or can you do a shift a week at your current job doing transport or as a floor tech? Surely with the connections at your job you don't have to do the cookie cutter hospital volunteering that a lot of pre-meds do (including myself until I got tired of pushing paperwork).