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I have been looking everywhere and am unable to find what qualifies for each section and I am just confused as to what to do/include for each. Please help if you know some types of activities that fall under each category or are able to explain what each category is referring. Thank you in advance, I appreciate it!

• Artistic Endeavors
• Community Service/Volunteer – Medical/Clinical (other than in a hospital setting)
• Conferences Attended
• Extracurricular Activities
• Hobbies
• Honors/Awards/Recognitions
• Presentations/Posters
• Publications

 

[Mr.Smile12]

I have been looking everywhere and am unable to find what qualifies for each section and I am just confused as to what to do/include for each. Please help if you know some types of activities that fall under each category or are able to explain what each category is referring. Thank you in advance, I appreciate it!

• Artistic Endeavors
• Community Service/Volunteer – Medical/Clinical (other than in a hospital setting)
• Conferences Attended
• Extracurricular Activities
• Hobbies
• Honors/Awards/Recognitions
• Presentations/Posters
• Publications

A general web search will give you lots of advice from non-AAMC sources. Synthesize the information that you find. The areas that tend to be fuzzy are about medical or clinical experiences and volunteer vs. extracurricular activities.

 

[LizzyM]

You don't need to have an item with each tag.
If you have published your scientific research, it goes under publication.
If you are a studio artist (painter, photographer, sculptor, jewelry designer, etc) that would be "artistic endeavor".
If you went to but did not present your work at a conference, you'd list that under "conferences attended" but that is a very minor category that most people wouldn't include unless it was a very prestigious and exclusive meeting.
Extracurricular activities.... is this even a section?? I don't recall ever seeing it on an application
Hobbies: what do you do for fun... if you play a musical instrument just for fun (you wouldn't say it rises to the level of "artistic performance") or train for 5Ks, or bake/cook on a regular basis, those would be the sorts of things to include here.
Honors/Awards: Phi Beta Kappa, dean's list, named scholarships etc.
Presentations/Posters: You are invited to present a poster or a podium presentation at a conference. That info goes under that tag.

 

[Catalystik]

I have been looking everywhere and am unable to find what qualifies for each section and I am just confused as to what to do/include for each. Please help if you know some types of activities that fall under each category or are able to explain what each category is referring. Thank you in advance, I appreciate it!

• Artistic Endeavors
• Community Service/Volunteer – Medical/Clinical (other than in a hospital setting)
• Conferences Attended
• Extracurricular Activities
• Hobbies
• Honors/Awards/Recognitions
• Presentations/Posters
• Publications

We have a thread dedicated to helping fill out the Activities section, including general advice in post #2: *~*~*~* Official AMCAS "Work/Activities" Tips Thread 2019-2020 *~*~*~*

 

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You don't need to have an item with each tag.
If you have published your scientific research, it goes under publication.
If you are a studio artist (painter, photographer, sculptor, jewelry designer, etc) that would be "artistic endeavor".
If you went to but did not present your work at a conference, you'd list that under "conferences attended" but that is a very minor category that most people wouldn't include unless it was a very prestigious and exclusive meeting.
Extracurricular activities.... is this even a section?? I don't recall ever seeing it on an application
Hobbies: what do you do for fun... if you play a musical instrument just for fun (you wouldn't say it rises to the level of "artistic performance") or train for 5Ks, or bake/cook on a regular basis, those would be the sorts of things to include here.
Honors/Awards: Phi Beta Kappa, dean's list, named scholarships etc.
Presentations/Posters: You are invited to present a poster or a podium presentation at a conference. That info goes under that tag.

So for Community Service/Volunteer – Medical/Clinical.
Would volunteering in a Nursing home by creating activities and completing those with the residents count? Activities like creating games, nail care, gardening, reading, helping them with things and others. I would be like a volunteer activity coordinator and it would be direct patient contact.

 

[LizzyM]

So for Community Service/Volunteer – Medical/Clinical.
Would volunteering in a Nursing home by creating activities and completing those with the residents count? Activities like creating games, nail care, gardening, reading, helping them with things and others. I would be like a volunteer activity coordinator and it would be direct patient contact.

This is a very gray zone. Usually, people living in nursing homes are called residents, not patients. If you did these things with/for a person who used a wheelchair or walker in their own home, would you try to call it clinical volunteering? I'd call it non-clinical volunteering and let the adcom member who reads it give you brownie points if they think it is clinical... far better that than to call it clinical and have someone read your application and think that you are trying to inflate your clinical exposure by calling something clinical when, in their mind, it is not.