IntelligentFault
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So I'm a re-applicant, it's been about 5 years since my last application, during which time I got way more clinical/research experience. I've always been torn between medicine and research and in the time that I've been working in psychiatry research I've seemed to find such a perfect balance but I might have screwed myself over in undergrad and now have a 3.5 sGPA. Do I have a hope in hell at an MD/PhD or should I stick to MD and try to just do research during my degree?
- State/Country of Residence: New York
- Ties to other States/Regions: Grew up in/did undergrad in/have family in Texas
- Year in School: Out of school (full time job post masters)
- Undergraduate Major(s)/Minor(s): Psychology major/biology minor
- Graduate Degrees (if applicable): Masters in clinical psychology
- Cumulative GPA: 3.69 (undergraduate = 3.63, graduate = 3.91)
- Science GPA: 3.50 (undergraduate = 3.42, graduate = 4.0)
- MCAT Score(s): 518
- LORS: 7 total (not sending all of them to every school). 3 PIs (one is an MD) and 4 professors (3 science and 1 non science; 2 undergrad and 2 grad)
- Research Experience: ~7500. I've done some undergrad research into memory (2 semesters), interned in a psychiatry lab where I did a thesis and was published/did a poster (one year), interned in a basic neuroscience lab where I did a poster/was published (2 years), and now work full time as a clinical research coordinator in a psychiatry lab at a major hospital (2 years)
- Publications/Abstracts/Posters (include how you were credited e.g. First author, second author, etc.): 2 posters (one at a major neuroscience conferences and one at my grad university where it won an award), 2 accepted publications (one review as first author and another as third author), 2 additional publications under review (middle author in a long list)
- Clinical Experience (paid or volunteer): ~40 in a blood/tissue center, ~1800 as a unit clerk at a rural hospital, and now ~5000 as a clinical research coordinator helping diagnose psych patients or assist in ketamine/ECT (Volunteering as a crisis advocate to start in the fall. :'( Delayed cause of covid )
- Physician Shadowing: ~86 hours between two hospitals with anesthesiology, internal medicine, and general medicine
- Non-Clinical Volunteering: ~115 with jumpstart (teach for america program).
- Other Extracurricular Activities: VP of a graduate psych society, missions chair for a sorority, and community service award
- Other Employment History: Teaching assistant for 1 year, resident assistant in undergrad for 2 years, and worked at a college bar for 1 year
- Immediate family members in medicine? (Y/N): Y
