Work Experience vs Extracurricular Pharmcas

[Davss]

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Under "work experience", pharmcas says you can list paid work exp or volunteer work exp. Under extra curr. it says it can list leadership, volunteer, comm. service.

Is any sort of hospital or pharmacy volunteer considered work exp since it requires documentation?

Is extracurricular stuff like health fairs, boys scout, homeless shelter etc?

 

[Davss]

bump

 

[Davss]

anyone know?

 

[knutcracka]

If it helps, I put my hospital inpatient pharmacy volunteer experience under ECs. My duties were delivering meds to nursing units & checking for expired meds. I'm not sure what your experience is but it really doesn't matter where you put it as long as it makes sense to you. Whoever reads your application will see that experience regardless of where you put it.

 

[kmapes]

Under "work experience", pharmcas says you can list paid work exp or volunteer work exp. Under extra curr. it says it can list leadership, volunteer, comm. service.

Is any sort of hospital or pharmacy volunteer considered work exp since it requires documentation?

Is extracurricular stuff like health fairs, boys scout, homeless shelter etc?

Work experience are jobs that you get paid to complete. So if you worked at a hospital or pharmacy and got paid for it, it would go under work experience. For example, I started off volunteering at an independent pharmacy. After a few months, they signed me on to the payroll. I listed that as work experience.

Extra curricular activities are anything that you did for clubs, or general volunteer experiences. For example, I did a volunteer internship in Thailand in a hospital. That went under extra curriculara activities, since I did not get paid for it.

That is how I interpreted pharmCAS when I completed my application.

 

[Davss]

thanks guys